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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Troy, MI ranks #172 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 713 patents from 312 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Troy, MI include General Motors, Ford, IBM. That works out to 8.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 312 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Timothy P. Kozub General Motors 36
2 Gordon M. Platto Ford 32
3 Chandra S. Namuduri General Motors 20
#4 Swaminathan Balasubramanian IBM 17
#5 James Chih Cheng Ford 14
#6 Suresh Gopalakrishnan General Motors 10
#7 David T. Proefke General Motors 9
#8 Pei-Chung Wang General Motors 8
#8 Xiaofeng Yang General Motors 8
#8 Sanjeev M. Naik General Motors 8
#8 Qiuping Qu Ford 8
#12 Mark W. Verbrugge General Motors 7
#12 Lawrence J. Lawson Android Industries 7
#12 Michael G. Reynolds General Motors 7
#15 Xingcheng Xiao General Motors 6
#15 Min Sun General Motors 6
#15 Hui Wang General Motors 6
#15 Lei Hao General Motors 6
#15 Wei Tong General Motors 6
#15 Roger Khami Ford 6
#15 Gongshin Qi General Motors 6
#15 Steven L. Hayslett General Motors 6
#15 Probir Kumar Guha Continental Structural Plastics 6
#24 Rajeev Sharma Videomining 5
#24 Thomas O'Brien Lear 5
#24 Furqan Zafar Shaikh Ford 5
#24 Richard J. Lange General Motors 5
#24 Shih-Ken Chen General Motors 5
#24 Edward J. Wenzel Inteva Products 5
#24 Ashford A. Galbreath Lear 5
#24 Sungchul Lee Valeo Embrayages 5
#24 Brian Farrell 5
#24 Satish Ketkar LG 5
#24 Edward Chan-Jiun Jih Ford 5
#35 Alexander Serkh Gates 4
#35 Chunhao J. Lee General Motors 4
#35 Md Foezur Rahman Chowdhury General Motors 4
#35 Ying Wang Li-Cor 4
#35 Manoj Sharma General Motors 4
#35 Tejas M. Varunjikar Steering Solutions Ip Holding 4
#35 Alexander Zak Magna International 4
#35 James G. Schroth General Motors 4
#43 Srinivasa Rao Vaddiraju Corning Incorporated 3
#43 Manfred Koberstein Ford 3
#43 Feng Feng Hamilton Sundstrand 3
#43 Zachary W. Ball Mercury Studio 3
#43 Patrick Durham Valeo Embrayages 3
#43 Mahmoud H. Abd Elhamid General Motors 3
#43 Khwaja M. Rahman General Motors 3
#43 Douglas J. Amick General Motors 3

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