Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Plainwell, MI ranks #5,018 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 20 patents from 9 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Plainwell, MI include Hill-Rom Services, Stryker, Mann+Hummel Gmbh. That works out to 5.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–9 of 9 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ryan S. Severns Hill-Rom Services 5
2 Kevin M. Patmore Stryker 3
2 Jonathan Mark Greenbank Stryker 3
#4 Dennis Stratton Stryker 2
#4 Levi Scheenstra Stryker 2
#4 Michael Desjardins Mann+Hummel Gmbh 2
#7 Toni-Jo Poel 1
#7 William D. Childs Stryker 1
#7 Charles Louis Crouch Stryker 1

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