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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Novi, MI ranks #183 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 681 patents from 264 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Novi, MI include Ford, Guardian Glass, General Motors. That works out to 10.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 264 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Manoharprasad K. Rao Ford 24
2 Darrell Behmer Ford 22
2 Bernard D. Nefcy Ford 22
#4 Michael W. Degner Ford 19
#4 John Robert Van Wiemeersch Ford 19
#6 Saeed David Barbat Ford 18
#6 Xiaogang Zhang Ford 18
#8 S. M. Iskander Farooq Ford 17
#9 Dimitar Petrov Filev Ford 14
#10 James Stewart Rankin, II Ford 12
#11 Kirk Pebley Ford 8
#11 Iskander Farooq Ford 8
#13 John Comiez Ford 7
#13 James Douglas Ervin Ford 7
#13 Brent Boyce Guardian Glass 7
#13 Patrick Kevin Holub Ford 7
#17 Gaurav Talwar General Motors 6
#17 Xiaosong Huang General Motors 6
#17 Venkata Prasad Atluri General Motors 6
#17 Hongbin Wang Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 6
#17 Michael P. Balogh General Motors 6
#17 Shailesh Shrikant Kozarekar Ford 6
#23 Ibrahim S. Kandah Nxp Usa 5
#23 Frank C. Valeri General Motors 5
#23 Vijay Ramappan General Motors 5
#23 Wen Gu General Motors 5
#23 Srinivas Reddy Malapati Ford 5
#23 Ilya Kolmanovsky Ford 5
#23 Cheong Choon Ng Choon'S Design 5
#23 Scott D. Thomas General Motors 5
#23 David Dai Pittsburgh Glass Works 5
#32 Krish E. Aekbote Ford 4
#32 Ruixing Long General Motors 4
#32 Barry S. Turner Belanger 4
#32 James Maurice Boileau Ford 4
#32 John Harvey Gates 4
#32 Dhanendra Kumar Nagwanshi Sabic Global Technologies B.V. 4
#32 Rohit Gunna Ford 4
#32 Tsutomu Yamada Sanyo Electric Co. 4
#32 Debejyo Chakraborty General Motors 4
#32 Manoj Desai Ford 4
#32 Gary Edward Zack Visteon Global Technologies 4
#32 Lucian Botez Schaeffler 4
#32 Debraj Dey Nissan North America 4
#32 Di Zhu Ford 4
#32 Gerrit Reepmeyer Guardhat 4
#32 B. Jerry Song General Motors 4
#48 Jaewoo Chang Ford 3
#48 Kosei Takagi Denso 3
#48 Ravi Gopal Ford 3

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