Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Big Rapids, MI ranks #2,332 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 54 patents from 38 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Big Rapids, MI include Monsanto Technology, Fca Us Llc., General Motors. That works out to 7.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–38 of 38 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 L. John Frederickson Monsanto Technology 8
2 Nicholas Vardis Fca Us Llc. 3
2 Jeremy Rolfs Fca Us Llc. 3
#4 James E. Osbourn General Motors 2
#4 John Stallmann Schaeffler 2
#4 Bruce E. Dale Michigan State University 2
#4 Ryan A. Floyd Tenneco Automotive Operating Company 2
#4 Dean Schneider Gates 2
#9 Earl DeWayne Conn Irvin Automotive Products 1
#9 Daniel Bujaidar Key Safety Systems 1
#9 Joseph Furnari 1
#9 Glenn E. Clever General Motors 1
#9 Joseph P. Fannon General Motors 1
#9 Shawn Andrus University Of Utah 1
#9 Andrew Culkin Michigan Technological University 1
#9 Doug Kwiatkowski Verizon 1
#9 Gary M. Buch General Motors 1
#9 Katherine M. Shipley 1
#9 Valerie Lee Foos 1
#9 Leo IOPPOLO Brose Fahrzeugteile Gmbh & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft 1
#9 Jamie A. Mleczko Magna Electronics 1
#9 William J. Cauley 1
#9 Karl Andrew Sime General Motors 1
#9 Craig Wieland Unknown 1
#9 Steven L. Lambert Ford 1
#9 Krzysztof Wroblewski Lear 1
#9 Duane D. Kruger Delphi Technologies 1
#9 Daniel P. Garrison Accenture Global Services Limited 1
#9 Daniel O'Leary 1
#9 Charlie Creelman 1
#9 Paul Andrew Santi Fanuc America 1
#9 Harold W. Parslow, Jr. Grapar 1
#9 Gary Forth Faurecia Interior Systems 1
#9 Krysti Lynn Scheider The J. M. Smucker 1
#9 Jeffrey P. Schmelzer 1
#9 Robert J. Scheuerman General Motors 1
#9 John Thon Michigan State University 1
#9 Geoffrey C. O'Brien 1

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