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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Saline, MI ranks #762 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 167 patents from 84 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Saline, MI include Ford, Toyota, Guardian Industries. That works out to 18.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 84 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Richard E. Soltis Ford 13
2 Walter Joseph Ortmann Ford 9
3 Jonathan R. Young Toyota 8
#4 Christopher Attard Ford 6
#4 Todd Anthony Rumpsa Ford 6
#6 Jingyu Lao Guardian Industries 5
#6 Paul Andrew Edwards Electronics For Imaging 5
#6 Steven Wooldridge Ford 5
#9 Pratima Addepalli First Solar 4
#9 Manikandan Baby Mony Toyota 4
#9 Mark D. Clauser Toyota 4
#9 Ryan C. Harris Toyota 4
#9 John C. Schultz 3M 4
#14 James Robert McBride Ford 3
#14 Ethan D. Sanborn Ford 3
#14 Mark Edward Nichols Trimble Navigation Limited 3
#14 Sean L. Helm Toyota 3
#18 Martin Fitzpatrick Frey Ford 2
#18 Gregory William Endres Cayman Chemical Company 2
#18 Jeffrey Paul Luther Ford 2
#18 Dennis A. Wetzel Johnson Controls Technology 2
#18 Kevin Andrew Gady General Motors 2
#18 John E. Robarge Ford 2
#18 Zi-Jian Xie The University Of Toledo 2
#18 Wan-Thai Hsu Discera 2
#18 Jeffrey Sitko Nissan North America 2
#18 Chad A. Barnes Toyota 2
#18 Phouvadol P. Khouphongsy Toyota 2
#29 Gary H. Paelicke General Motors 1
#29 Jon A. Debling Basf Se 1
#29 Andrius Marcinkevicus Imra America 1
#29 David Michael Whitton Visteon Global Technologies 1
#29 Joseph Supina Ford 1
#29 Timothy W. Skszek Magna International 1
#29 Michael C. Mullenix Enzo Life Sciences 1
#29 Timothy David Mulligan Brasscraft Manufacturing 1
#29 Lamoyne (Jack) Durham Optiflow 1
#29 Michael Allen DeBolt Ford 1
#29 John J. Hasija 1
#29 Rod Collin Optiflow 1
#29 Timothy Alfred Nevius Horiba Instruments Incorporated 1
#29 Steve Scott Allen Ford 1
#29 Andrius Marcinkevicius Imra America 1
#29 Kenneth R. Hill Prince 1
#29 Robert J. Santure 1
#29 William R. Simpson Ford 1
#29 James William Ortman Ford 1
#29 Scott R. Caudill Ford 1
#29 Matthew M. Jackson Tapco International 1
#29 Christopher G. Grant Toyota 1

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