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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Dearborn, MI ranks #233 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 619 patents from 241 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Dearborn, MI include Ford, Denso International America, Automotive Lighting. That works out to 5.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 241 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 George Bucher Ford 39
2 Ross Dykstra Pursifull Ford 31
3 Joseph Norman Ulrey Ford 27
#4 Mohannad Hakeem Ford 14
#4 Hafiz Shafeek Khafagy Ford 14
#6 Victoria Leigh Schein Ford 11
#7 Luke Niewiadomski Ford 10
#7 John Wayne Jaranson Ford 10
#9 Daniel A. Makled Ford 9
#10 Daniel Paul Madison Ford 8
#11 Eric Matthew Kurtz Ford 7
#11 Kristopher Karl Brown Ford 7
#11 Jeffrey Gray Ford 7
#14 Angel Fernando Porras Ford 6
#14 Liangjun Hu Ford 6
#14 Timothy Noah Blatchley Ford 6
#14 Bilal Alasry Denso International America 6
#14 Mohammed Khorshed Alam Ford 6
#14 Nicholas Herhusky Ford 6
#20 Cyrille Goldstein Ford 5
#20 Timothy J. Potter Ford 5
#20 William A. Grabowski Automotive Lighting 5
#20 Mohamed Marwan Mattar Electronic Arts 5
#20 Kenneth Frederick Ford 5
#20 Carol Casey Ford 5
#20 Nitin Singh IBM 5
#20 Mark A. Wisneski Ford 5
#20 Steve Droste Ford 5
#20 Danielle Rosenblatt Ford 5
#30 Paul Iacoban Ford 4
#30 Floyd Cadwell Ford 4
#30 Kenneth J. Jackson Ford 4
#30 Anthony Melatti Ford 4
#30 Brandon Beauvais Ford 4
#30 Robert Bruce Kleve Ford 4
#30 Daniel Boston Ford 4
#30 Jeffrey Charles Paddock Ford 4
#30 Kevin James Rhodes Ford 4
#30 Keith Allen Godin Ford 4
#30 Peter Simeon Lazarevski Ford 4
#30 Arnold Kadiu Ford 4
#42 Wesley Edward Burkman Ford 3
#42 S. George Luckey, Jr. Ford 3
#42 Christopher Alan Lear Ford 3
#42 Mohan Karulkar Ford 3
#42 Sami A. Alkharabsheh Ford 3
#42 Haron Abdel-Raziq Ford 3
#42 Michael Terrence Zitkovic, JR. Ford 3
#42 Priyal N. Sheth Lear 3
#42 Sneha Agasthya Lear 3

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