Michigan — Patent Inventors 2005

Top Cities in Michigan 2005

Rank	City	Patents	Inventors
#1	Ann Arbor, MI	757	467
#2	Troy, MI	319	202
#3	Midland, MI	238	171
#4	Canton, MI	233	160
#5	Rochester Hills, MI	229	143
#6	Holland, MI	194	110
#7	Beverly Hills, MI	191	126
#8	Novi, MI	176	106
#9	Farmington Hills, MI	171	128
#10	Dearborn, MI	164	100
#11	Bloomfield Hills, MI	146	80
#12	Grand Rapids, MI	142	105
#13	Northville, MI	142	88
#14	Kalamazoo, MI	136	93
#15	Sterling Heights, MI	133	98
#16	Livonia, MI	131	94
#17	Royal Oak, MI	131	79
#18	Ypsilanti, MI	111	74
#19	Rochester, MI	98	61
#20	Birmingham, MI	98	55
#21	Brighton, MI	95	55
#22	Tokyo, MI	88	32
#23	Howell, MI	84	47
#24	Rockford, MI	84	39
#25	Clarkston, MI	80	58

Rank	Inventor	City	Company	Patents
1	Adrian B. Chernoff	Royal Oak	General Motors	23
2	Manon Belley	Rockford	Wolverine World Wide	22
3	Gopichandra Surnilla	Bloomfield	Ford	18
3	Mohammed N. Islam	Ann Arbor	Omni Medsci	18
#5	Stanford R. Ovshinsky	Bloomfield Hills	Energy Conversion Devices	17
#6	Craig S. Metros	Bloomfield	Ford	16
#6	Tyler Jon Blake	Dearborn	Ford	16
#8	Robert Louis Vitale	Macomb Township	General Motors	14
#8	Stephen R. Forrest	Ann Arbor	Princeton University	14
#10	Walter H. Ohrbom	Southfield	Basf Se	13
#10	Mohsen D. Shabana	Ann Arbor	General Motors	13
#10	Joseph S. Stam	Holland	Gentex	13
#10	Christopher E. Borroni-Bird	Rochester Hills	General Motors	13
#10	Niall R. Lynam	Holland	Donnelly	13
#10	Peter Schmidt	Saginaw	Infineon Technologies Ag	13
#16	Jon H. Bechtel	Holland	Gentex	12
#16	Pei-Chung Wang	Troy	General Motors	12
#18	Phillip Dan Cook	Ann Arbor	Isis Pharmaceuticals	11
#18	John K. Roberts	East Grand Rapids	Gentex	11
#18	John Nantz	Brighton	Lear	11
#18	Michael John Cullen	Dearborn	Ford	11
#22	Mary L. Schoenborn	Rockford	Wolverine World Wide	10
#22	Mike Nipke	Grandville	Vendor Development Group	10
#22	Riad Ghabra	Northville	Lear	10
#25	Alan L. Browne	Grosse Pointe	General Motors	9