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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Okemos, MI ranks #1,750 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 70 patents from 45 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Okemos, MI include BOE, Coskata, Dpd. That works out to 2.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–45 of 45 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mi Zhang BOE 5
1 Robert Hickey Coskata 5
3 Parviz Soroushian Dpd 3
3 Aamrapali Chatterjee General Motors 3
3 Lawrence Julius Sonne 3
#6 Anagi Manjula Balachandra Metna Co 2
#6 Timothy A. Grotjohn Michigan State University 2
#6 Todd A. Glogovsky Equistar Chemicals, Lp 2
#6 Thomas W. Swasey 2
#6 Fang Peng Lockheed Martin 2
#6 Bingsen Wang Michigan State University 2
#6 Michael J. Karagoulis General Motors 2
#6 Ilsoon Lee Michigan State University 2
#6 Brock Walker Herman Miller 2
#6 Qi Hua Fan Michigan State University 2
#6 Ramani Narayan Michigan State University 2
#17 Farzaneh Teymouri The Michigan Biotechnology Institute 1
#17 Michael R. Pollard Mycogen 1
#17 Bernd Thommes Arcelormittal France 1
#17 John B. Ohlrogge Michigan State University 1
#17 Juyang Weng Michigan State University 1
#17 Rafael Auras Michigan State University 1
#17 J. Gregory Zeikus Michigan State University 1
#17 Steven N. Furtwangler Home Box Office 1
#17 Sudeshna Pal Michigan State University 1
#17 Roger E. Payne Dart Container 1
#17 Aaron Mulder Air Lift 1
#17 Dahsin Liu Michigan State University 1
#17 Guojing Li Michigan State University 1
#17 Daniel Robert Mandernack General Motors 1
#17 Junghoon Yeom University Of Illinois 1
#17 John W. Frost Board Of Trustees Operating Michigan State University 1
#17 Lawrence T. Drzal Michigan State University 1
#17 Danrich Henry Demitroff Ford 1
#17 Dianne Holman Working Bugs 1
#17 Lane Charles Taber, Jr. Eaton 1
#17 Erik Martinez-Hackert Acceleron Pharma 1
#17 Bruce F. Hunter General Motors 1
#17 Darrel R. Sand 1
#17 Robert Zegarac Michigan State University 1
#17 David Kramer Intel 1
#17 Kyung-Hwan Han Michigan State University 1
#17 Huanmin Zhang University Of Arizona 1
#17 Sumit Bhargava Cummins 1
#17 Carolyn Randall Michigan State University 1

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