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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Saline, MI ranks #802 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 168 patents from 78 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Saline, MI include Ford, Electronics For Imaging, Trimble Navigation Limited. That works out to 18.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 78 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jack Marchlewski Ford 12
1 Richard E. Soltis Ford 12
3 Walter Joseph Ortmann Ford 7
#4 Steven Wooldridge Ford 6
#5 Paul Andrew Edwards Electronics For Imaging 5
#5 Mark Edward Nichols Trimble Navigation Limited 5
#5 Nelson William Morrow Ford 5
#8 Ethan D. Sanborn Ford 4
#8 John C. Schultz 3M 4
#8 Todd Anthony Rumpsa Ford 4
#8 Jonathan R. Young Toyota 4
#12 Kevin Andrew Gady General Motors 3
#12 Michael Barnhart Ford 3
#12 Ryan C. Harris Toyota 3
#12 David Michael Whitton Visteon Global Technologies 3
#12 Gregory William Endres Cayman Chemical Company 3
#12 Paul W. Firehammer A123 Systems 3
#18 Andrius Marcinkevicius Imra America 2
#18 Mark A. Pellerin Ford 2
#18 Matthew M. Jackson Tapco International 2
#18 Peidong Han Amcor Rigid Plastics Usa 2
#18 Sean L. Helm Toyota 2
#18 Zdzislaw Chajec Davco Technology 2
#18 Michael R. Grimes General Motors 2
#18 Gerald P. Roston Cybernet Systems 2
#18 Herbert Yang Ford 2
#18 Xudong Fan University of Michigan 2
#18 Michael R. Boyd US Dept of Health & Human Services 2
#18 Christopher T. Gauthier Toyota 2
#18 Marisa Ferrara Boston Kpmg Llp 2
#18 Mark John Jennings Ford 2
#18 James Robert McBride Ford 2
#18 Gene Parunak Handylab 2
#18 Jingyu Lao Guardian Industries 2
#18 Matthew A. Jansma Toyota 2
#18 Jack Adams Ford 2
#18 Mark D. Clauser Toyota 2
#18 Gopal Krishna Chamarthi Ford 2
#39 Hamshivraj Singh Dhamrat Toyota 1
#39 Timothy D. Parker Ford 1
#39 Karen L. Brawn Masco Cabinetry 1
#39 Emily Ann Khouphongsy Toyota 1
#39 Flondezi Godette Ford 1
#39 Susan Hares Futurewei Technologies 1
#39 Randy Stevenson Accio Energy 1
#39 Rod Collin Optiflow 1
#39 Joseph Supina Ford 1
#39 Mark L. Hanna Mectron Engineering Company 1
#39 Daniel E. Wilkosz Ford 1
#39 Richard Thayre Smith Integrated Sensing Systems 1

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