Michigan — Patent Inventors 2004

Top Cities in Michigan 2004

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Ann Arbor, MI	788	476
#2	Troy, MI	478	223
#3	Midland, MI	352	244
#4	Canton, MI	301	189
#5	Novi, MI	221	121
#6	Rochester Hills, MI	220	133
#7	Holland, MI	214	113
#8	Farmington Hills, MI	199	149
#9	Beverly Hills, MI	194	122
#10	Dearborn, MI	191	109
#11	Bloomfield Hills, MI	162	87
#12	Grand Rapids, MI	152	95
#13	Kalamazoo, MI	151	111
#14	Livonia, MI	148	96
#15	Sterling Heights, MI	139	96
#16	Rochester, MI	137	82
#17	Bloomfield, MI	131	21
#18	Northville, MI	128	83
#19	Ypsilanti, MI	119	77
#20	Royal Oak, MI	116	84
#21	Southfield, MI	110	63
#22	Plymouth, MI	104	74
#23	Brighton, MI	100	63
#24	Birmingham, MI	92	63
#25	Tokyo, MI	92	34

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Patrick B. Usoro	Troy	General Motors	61
2	Madhusudan Raghavan	Bloomfield	General Motors	44
3	Chunhao J. Lee	Troy	General Motors	35
#4	Tyler Jon Blake	Dearborn	Ford	32
#4	Craig S. Metros	Bloomfield	Ford	32
#6	Norman K. Bucknor	Troy	General Motors	27
#7	Gopichandra Surnilla	Bloomfield	Ford	22
#8	Niall R. Lynam	Holland	Donnelly	21
#8	Stanford R. Ovshinsky	Bloomfield Hills	Energy Conversion Devices	21
#10	Manon Belley	Rockford	Wolverine World Wide	19
#11	Tsutomu Yamada	Novi	Sanyo Electric Co.	17
#12	Chi-Kuan Kao	Troy	General Motors	16
#12	Mark A. Massa	Canton	Pharmacia	16
#14	Yixin Yao	Ann Arbor	Visteon Global Technologies	15
#14	Mohammed N. Islam	Ann Arbor	Omni Medsci	15
#16	Pei-Chung Wang	Troy	General Motors	14
#17	Gregory Stout	Ann Arbor	Visteon Global Technologies	13
#17	Kenneth Schofield	Holland	Donnelly	13
#17	Vijayen S. Veerasamy	Ann Arbor	Guardian Industries	13
#20	Shinichi Ito	Southfield	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	12
#21	Kenichi Kuroda	Ann Arbor	Hitachi	11
#21	Xinbing Liu	Ann Arbor	Sumitomo Electric Industries	11
#21	Nnochiri Ekwuribe	Southfield	Nobex	11
#21	Mark E. Gurney	Grand Rapids	Pharmacia & Upjohn Company	11
#21	Phillip Dan Cook	Ann Arbor	Isis Pharmaceuticals	11