Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Rochester Hills, MI ranks #287 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 446 patents from 242 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Rochester Hills, MI include General Motors, Ford, International Truck Intellectual Property Company. That works out to 5.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 242 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Guy W. Whitla General Motors 17
2 Takahiko Suginoshita General Motors 16
3 Gregory Daniel Goleski Ford 13
#4 Felix Nedorezov Ford 8
#5 Glen Joel Durmisevich International Truck Intellectual Property Company 7
#5 Anil K. Sachdev General Motors 7
#5 Lakshmi V. Thanayankizil General Motors 7
#8 Daniel P. Carlesimo General Motors 6
#8 John S. Agapiou General Motors 6
#8 William J. Chundrlik, Jr. Magna Electronics 6
#11 Vijay A. Neelakantan General Motors 5
#11 Krishna Koravadi Magna Electronics 5
#11 Ahmad Albanna General Motors 5
#14 Garret F. Achenbach Magna Electronics 4
#14 Anusorn Kongkanand General Motors 4
#14 Roy J. Mathieu General Motors 4
#14 Yo Chan Son General Motors 4
#14 Jawook Koo General Motors 4
#14 Daniel Vander Sluis Faurecia Interior Systems 4
#14 Hongliang Chen Dow Global Technologies 4
#14 Chaitanya Sankavaram General Motors 4
#14 Michael J. Siwajek Continental Structural Plastics 4
#14 Livianu Dorin Puscas Ford 4
#24 James George Gebbie Ford 3
#24 Arjun Yetukuri Lear 3
#24 Horst D. Diessner Magna Electronics 3
#24 Senthil N. Karuppaswamy General Motors 3
#24 Sai K. Perumalla Ford 3
#24 Qigui Wang General Motors 3
#24 Anthony Paskus Ford 3
#24 Ritesh Pandya Ford 3
#24 Joel Allen Pittenger Ford 3
#24 Ioan Napau Fisher & Company, Incorporated 3
#24 Huaxin Li General Motors 3
#24 Dooil Hwang General Motors 3
#24 Irina Zavatski Fca Us Llc. 3
#24 Christopher G. Benson General Motors 3
#24 Mark N. Howell General Motors 3
#24 Anthony M. Coppola General Motors 3
#24 Yhu-Tin Lin General Motors 3
#41 Shengbing Jiang General Motors 2
#41 Erick Staszak Joyson Safety Systems Acquisition 2
#41 Samuel J. Oram Gkn Driveline North America 2
#41 Joseph Andrew Hickey Ford 2
#41 Jeffrey A. Abell General Motors 2
#41 Hu Chao-Ian Basf Se 2
#41 Alexis A. Perez Jvis-Usa 2
#41 Charles G. Stuart American Axle & Manufacturing 2
#41 Brian D. Bammel Basf Se 2
#41 DAVID GESCHKE 2

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