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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Dearborn, MI ranks #208 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 564 patents from 204 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Dearborn, MI include Ford, IBM, Electronic Arts. That works out to 5.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 204 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 George Bucher Ford 45
2 Ross Dykstra Pursifull Ford 38
3 Joseph Norman Ulrey Ford 35
#4 Daniel A. Makled Ford 21
#5 Mohannad Hakeem Ford 17
#6 John Wayne Jaranson Ford 16
#7 Hafiz Shafeek Khafagy Ford 12
#8 Pattrick Loew Ford 11
#9 William Paul Perkins Ford 10
#9 Angel Fernando Porras Ford 10
#9 Timothy J. Potter Ford 10
#12 Eric Matthew Kurtz Ford 9
#13 Daniel Paul Madison Ford 8
#13 Carol Casey Ford 8
#15 Prasad Dev Hanumalagutti Ford 7
#15 Nitin Singh IBM 7
#17 Giovanni Cavataio Ford 6
#17 Robert Bruce Kleve Ford 6
#17 Keith Allen Godin Ford 6
#20 Christopher Alan Lear Ford 5
#20 Mohammed Khorshed Alam Ford 5
#20 Timothy Noah Blatchley Ford 5
#20 Christopher Semanson Ford 5
#20 Steven Yellin Schondorf Ford 5
#25 Mohamed Marwan Mattar Electronic Arts 4
#25 Carol Louise Okubo Ford 4
#25 Mohammad R. Aghili Ford 4
#25 Tom Boettger Ford 4
#25 Hassan Elnajjar General Motors 4
#25 Daniel Miller Ford 4
#31 John Russell Bielawski, Jr. Ford 3
#31 Victoria Leigh Schein Ford 3
#31 Keith D. Miazgowicz Ford 3
#31 Brock Dunlap Ford 3
#31 Cary Horvath Denso International America 3
#31 Christine Kay Lambert Ford 3
#31 Marvin Paul Kraska Ford 3
#31 Steven Sute Denso International America 3
#31 Mark Allen Dearth Ford 3
#31 Reid Worthen Ford 3
#31 Thomas F. Boettger Ford 3
#31 Michael Terrence Zitkovic, JR. Ford 3
#31 S. George Luckey, Jr. Ford 3
#44 Douglas B. Thornburg Ford 2
#44 Steven Frank Ford 2
#44 Wesley Edward Burkman Ford 2
#44 Kevin James Rhodes Ford 2
#44 Mohan Karulkar Ford 2
#44 Hassan Dakhlallah Ford 2
#44 Vince Paul Solferino Ford 2

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