Michigan — Patent Inventors 2002

Top Cities in Michigan 2002

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Ann Arbor, MI	813	461
#2	Midland, MI	404	249
#3	Troy, MI	378	206
#4	Canton, MI	281	187
#5	Holland, MI	280	141
#6	Farmington Hills, MI	227	142
#7	Rochester Hills, MI	220	133
#8	Grand Rapids, MI	209	118
#9	Beverly Hills, MI	202	120
#10	Novi, MI	196	111
#11	Dearborn, MI	184	110
#12	Livonia, MI	170	116
#13	Bloomfield Hills, MI	154	97
#14	Kalamazoo, MI	152	110
#15	Sterling Heights, MI	148	91
#16	Northville, MI	116	79
#17	Ypsilanti, MI	108	75
#18	Southfield, MI	93	56
#19	Plymouth, MI	90	69
#20	Rochester, MI	89	60
#21	Detroit, MI	89	58
#22	Birmingham, MI	85	52
#23	Clarkston, MI	84	65
#24	Royal Oak, MI	83	63
#25	Brighton, MI	83	55

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Gopichandra Surnilla	Bloomfield	Ford	21
2	Niall R. Lynam	Holland	Donnelly	20
3	Stephen R. Forrest	Ann Arbor	Princeton University	19
#4	Thomas M. Shea	Troy	T.M. Shea Products	17
#4	Yongcai Wang	Ann Arbor	Eastman Kodak	17
#6	Thomas C. Bowen	Rochester Hills	New Venture Gear	16
#6	Michael John Cullen	Dearborn	Ford	16
#8	David Karl Bidner	Livonia	Ford	15
#8	Douglas M. Smith	Ann Arbor	Texas Instruments	15
#10	Vijayen S. Veerasamy	Ann Arbor	Guardian Industries	14
#10	Christos Kyrtsos	Beverly Hills	Caterpillar	14
#12	Lloyd Walker Rogers, Jr.	Big Rapids	General Motors	13
#12	Kenneth Schofield	Holland	Donnelly	13
#12	Phillip Dan Cook	Ann Arbor	Isis Pharmaceuticals	13
#15	Kurt R. Heidmann	Grand Rapids	Steelcase	12
#15	Mohammed N. Islam	Ann Arbor	Omni Medsci	12
#15	Stanford R. Ovshinsky	Bloomfield Hills	Energy Conversion Devices	12
#15	Rawle I. Hollingsworth	Haslett	Michigan State University	12
#15	Robert R. Turnbull	Holland	Gentex	12
#15	Ronald J. Pierik	Holly	Delphi Technologies	12
#15	Zooey C. Chu	Byron Center	Global Total Office	12
#15	Mark A. Massa	Canton	Pharmacia	12
#23	Ron Aselton	Sterling Heights	Bombardier	11
#23	Tejas Desai	Troy	Siemens Vdo Automotive Ag	11
#23	Shinichi Ito	Southfield	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	11