Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Troy, MI ranks #160 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 738 patents from 335 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Troy, MI include Ford, General Motors, IBM. That works out to 8.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 335 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gordon M. Platto Ford 39
2 Chandra S. Namuduri General Motors 20
3 Edward Chan-Jiun Jih Ford 14
#4 Suresh Gopalakrishnan General Motors 12
#4 Swaminathan Balasubramanian IBM 12
#6 Gongshin Qi General Motors 10
#7 Timothy P. Kozub General Motors 9
#7 Pei-Chung Wang General Motors 9
#7 Xingcheng Xiao General Motors 9
#10 Lei Hao General Motors 8
#11 Kwo Young Ovonic Battery Company 7
#11 Xiujie Gao General Motors 7
#11 Chunhao J. Lee General Motors 7
#11 David T. Proefke General Motors 7
#11 Mahmoud H. Abd Elhamid General Motors 7
#11 Manoj Sharma General Motors 7
#17 Li Yang General Motors 6
#17 Jinglin Li General Motors 6
#17 David James Rhein Te Connectivity Co. 6
#17 Roger Khami Ford 6
#17 Chuan Li General Motors 6
#17 James Chih Cheng Ford 6
#23 Steven L. Hayslett General Motors 5
#23 Tejas M. Varunjikar Steering Solutions Ip Holding 5
#23 Lawrence J. Lawson Android Industries 5
#23 Fang Dai General Motors 5
#23 Luciano Nunziato Di Perna General Motors 5
#23 Soheil Samii General Motors 5
#23 Patrick Durham Valeo Embrayages 5
#30 Christopher Keeney Arvinmeritor Technology 4
#30 James G. Schroth General Motors 4
#30 Christopher L. Oesterling General Motors 4
#30 Ashford A. Galbreath Lear 4
#30 Ken Neilson Affinity Tool Works 4
#30 Kushal Narayanaswamy General Motors 4
#30 Zhen Ren Synopsys 4
#30 Shih-Ken Chen General Motors 4
#30 Probir Kumar Guha Continental Structural Plastics 4
#30 Martin R. Matthews Magna Exteriors 4
#30 Stefano Pellegrino General Motors 4
#30 Thomas Joseph Hermann Ford 4
#30 Ko-Jen Wu General Motors 4
#30 Furqan Zafar Shaikh Ford 4
#30 Khwaja M. Rahman General Motors 4
#30 Dorel M. Sala General Motors 4
#30 Alexander Serkh Gates 4
#30 Edward J. Wenzel Inteva Products 4
#30 Maqsood Rizwan Ali Khan General Motors 4
#30 Robert J. Martin Arvinmeritor Technology 4
#30 Jingmei Shen Ford 4

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