Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Saline, MI ranks #729 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 181 patents from 78 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Saline, MI include Ford, Toyota, Trimble Navigation Limited. That works out to 20.2 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 18
1 Richard E. Soltis Ford 18
3 Ethan D. Sanborn Ford 11
#4 Ryan C. Harris Toyota 8
#5 Walter Joseph Ortmann Ford 7
#6 Mark Edward Nichols Trimble Navigation Limited 6
#7 Sean L. Helm Toyota 5
#7 James A. Lathrop Ford 5
#9 Kevin Andrew Gady General Motors 4
#9 John C. Schultz 3M 4
#11 Vijaykumar M. Mannari Eastern Michigan University 3
#11 Cassandra R. Grant Toyota 3
#11 Mark John Jennings Ford 3
#11 James Robert McBride Ford 3
#11 Nelson William Morrow Ford 3
#11 Gregory William Endres Cayman Chemical Company 3
#17 Paul W. Firehammer A123 Systems 2
#17 Matthew M. Jackson Tapco International 2
#17 John A. Trott Parker-Hannifin 2
#17 Jonathan R. Young Toyota 2
#17 John Muldoon Toyota 2
#17 Todd Anthony Rumpsa Ford 2
#17 Gary H. Paelicke General Motors 2
#17 Joseph Supina Ford 2
#17 Daniel J. Mania Wacker Chemical Ag 2
#17 Michael Shane Losey Rovi Guides 2
#17 Christopher T. Gauthier Toyota 2
#17 Roy Joseph Scott Ford 2
#17 John Jeffrey Pfeiffer Ford 2
#17 Michael R. Boyd US Dept of Health & Human Services 2
#17 Steven Wooldridge Ford 2
#32 Ravindra Velamakanni Ford 1
#32 Jorge S. Livingston 1
#32 William Van Kampen Xoran Technologies 1
#32 Wan-Thai Hsu Discera 1
#32 Matthew Bregger Arbor Networks 1
#32 Hastings Wyman Klingelnberg Gmbh 1
#32 William E. Dowling, JR. Ford 1
#32 Darren Peter Shelcusky Ford 1
#32 Adrin Wagner Kiekert Ag 1
#32 Scott J. Hollister University of Michigan 1
#32 Paul Andrew Edwards Electronics For Imaging 1
#32 James Hollowood Adient Luxembourg Holding S.A.R.L. 1
#32 Timothy Foster Robert Bosch Gmbh 1
#32 James Andrew Miloser Ford 1
#32 Herbert Yang Ford 1
#32 Christopher Attard Ford 1
#32 Gregory Stuk Picometrix 1
#32 Timothy Rummel Wacker Chemie Ag 1
#32 Roy Schafer Ford 1

Part of Michigan