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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Troy, MI ranks #190 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 616 patents from 294 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Troy, MI include Ford, IBM, General Motors. That works out to 7.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 294 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gordon M. Platto Ford 32
2 Swaminathan Balasubramanian IBM 13
2 Chandra S. Namuduri General Motors 13
#4 James Chih Cheng Ford 10
#4 Mahmoud H. Abd Elhamid General Motors 10
#6 Chunhao J. Lee General Motors 8
#6 Mark W. Verbrugge General Motors 8
#6 Brian Farrell 8
#9 Ramesh Mishra Ericsson 7
#9 Feng Feng Hamilton Sundstrand 7
#9 Xingcheng Xiao General Motors 7
#9 Kwo Young Ovonic Battery Company 7
#9 David T. Proefke General Motors 7
#9 Amit Kulkarni Sabic Global Technologies B.V. 7
#15 Timothy P. Kozub General Motors 6
#15 Christopher Keeney Arvinmeritor Technology 6
#15 Xiaofeng Yang General Motors 6
#18 Richard V. Hom IBM 5
#18 Michael G. Reynolds General Motors 5
#18 James Pinon Johnson Controls Technology 5
#18 Kenneth L. Oblizajek General Motors 5
#18 Yongjie Zhu General Motors 5
#18 Mohan Sundar General Motors 5
#18 Suresh Gopalakrishnan General Motors 5
#18 Jason Weihman Automated Pet Care Products 5
#18 Shih-Ken Chen General Motors 5
#18 Richard J. Lange General Motors 5
#18 Damon R. Frisch General Motors 5
#29 Nan Cao IBM 4
#29 Min-Joong Kim General Motors 4
#29 Peter Francis Worrel Ford 4
#29 Hsiao-An Hsieh Ford 4
#29 Michael Andrew Power Arvinmeritor Technology 4
#29 Roger Khami Ford 4
#29 Satish Ketkar LG 4
#29 Xiujie Gao General Motors 4
#29 Mark D. Nemesh General Motors 4
#29 Sanjeev M. Naik General Motors 4
#29 Lei Hao General Motors 4
#29 Min Sun General Motors 4
#41 Edward J. Wenzel Inteva Products 3
#41 Michael K. Carpenter General Motors 3
#41 Mike Howlett Aisin Technical Center Of America 3
#41 Garrick Zack General Motors 3
#41 Chi-Kuan Kao General Motors 3
#41 Norman K. Bucknor General Motors 3
#41 John Foss Board Of Trustees Operating Michigan State University 3
#41 Tejas Desai Siemens Vdo Automotive Ag 3
#41 Anthony Morelli Ford 3
#41 Harry E. Eustice General Motors 3

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