Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Ann Arbor, MI ranks #49 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 1,945 patents from 878 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ann Arbor, MI include Ford, Dayco Ip Holdings, Broadcom. That works out to 15.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 878 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mohammed Omar Faruque Ford 31
2 Keith Hampton Dayco Ip Holdings 21
3 Fling Tseng Ford 20
#4 Yuji Fujii Ford 18
#5 Alex O'Connor Gibson Ford 17
#5 Russell Randall Pearce Ford 17
#7 Thomas Edward Pilutti Ford 16
#7 Patrick Daniel Maguire Ford 16
#9 Alexander O'Connor Gibson Ford 15
#9 Gregory Patrick McConville Ford 15
#9 Mohamed Ridha Baccouche Ford 15
#12 Hamid-Reza Ossareh Ford 14
#13 Alexander G. MacInnis Broadcom 13
#13 Jamel E. Belwafa Ford 13
#13 Feng Zhou Toyota 13
#13 Ercan Mehmet Dede Stanford University 13
#13 Roger Arnold Trombley Ford 13
#18 Debasish Banerjee Toyota 12
#18 Ryan Abraham McGee Ford 12
#20 Stephen R. Forrest Princeton University 11
#21 Jon Oberheide Duo Security 10
#21 David John Hill Optasense Holdings Limited 10
#21 Shailesh N. Joshi Toyota 10
#21 Francis Thomas Connolly Ford 10
#21 Vijayen S. Veerasamy Guardian Industries 10
#26 Travis Thompson Biosynthetic Technologies 9
#26 Fuminori Mizuno Toyota 9
#26 Nilesh D. Mankame General Motors 9
#26 Amanda Kay Freis Ford 9
#26 Johannes Geir Kristinsson Ford 9
#26 Hsin-hsiang Yang Ford 9
#26 Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt Ford 9
#33 Srinivasan Sundararajan Ford 8
#33 Anthony H. Heap General Motors 8
#33 Priyadarshini Gogoi Bio-Rad Laboratories 8
#33 Fan Bai General Motors 8
#33 Ingmar Hartl Imra America 8
#33 Chi-Ming Wang Toyota 8
#33 Stephen P. Lee Mc10 8
#33 Rajaram Subramanian Ford 8
#33 Jean-Marc Lemmer Guardian Industries 8
#33 Thomas Lee Miller Ford 8
#33 Yue-Ming Chen General Motors 8
#44 Katsuhiro Sakai Toyota 7
#44 David Theodore Blaauw University of Michigan 7
#44 Dale L. Grover Google 7
#44 Hun-Seok Kim Texas Instruments 7
#44 Donald J. Harter University of Michigan 7
#44 Dennis Sylvester University of Michigan 7
#44 David M. Moore Movellus Circuits 7

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