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Troy, MI 2020

869 patents  ·  354 inventors  ·  9.9/1k pop.

Ranked #169 of 44,574 cities Top 1%

Troy, MI ranks #169 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 869 patents from 354 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Troy, MI include Ford, General Motors, Sf Motors. That works out to 9.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 354 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gordon M. Platto Ford 56
2 Chunhao J. Lee General Motors 15
2 Zhong Nie Sf Motors 15
#4 Chandra S. Namuduri General Motors 14
#4 Manfred Koberstein Ford 14
#6 Wei Tong General Motors 13
#6 James Chih Cheng Ford 13
#6 Mohannad Murad General Motors 13
#6 Swaminathan Balasubramanian IBM 13
#10 Xingcheng Xiao General Motors 12
#10 Lei Hao General Motors 12
#12 Fang Dai General Motors 11
#12 Daniel W. Booth General Motors 11
#14 Norman K. Bucknor General Motors 10
#15 Hussam Makkiya Ford 9
#16 Edward Chan-Jiun Jih Ford 8
#16 Suresh Gopalakrishnan General Motors 8
#16 Paul E. Krajewski General Motors 8
#16 Shaun D. Tait Faurecia Automotive Seating 8
#16 Sunil Reddy Patil Ford 8
#16 Xiaofeng Yang General Motors 8
#22 James G. Schroth General Motors 7
#22 Cheng Gong Shenzhen Intellirocks Tech. Co. 7
#22 Gongshin Qi General Motors 7
#22 Manoj Sharma General Motors 7
#22 Mark W. Verbrugge General Motors 7
#27 Li Yang General Motors 6
#27 Pei-Chung Wang General Motors 6
#27 Martin R. Matthews Magna Exteriors 6
#27 Nitendra Nath Ford 6
#27 Kai-Han Chang General Motors 6
#27 Krishnamachari Gopalan Cooper-Standard Automotive 6
#33 Probir Kumar Guha Continental Structural Plastics 5
#33 Rajeev Sharma Videomining 5
#33 Chad W. DURKEE Faurecia Automotive Seating 5
#33 David R. Hanna Ford 5
#33 Christopher Keeney Arvinmeritor Technology 5
#33 Ashford A. Galbreath Lear 5
#33 Taeyoung Han General Motors 5
#40 Matthew McGinn Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (Uk) Limited 4
#40 Anthony L. Smith General Motors 4
#40 Maqsood Rizwan Ali Khan General Motors 4
#40 Phillip Leicht Arvinmeritor Technology 4
#40 Robert J. Martin Arvinmeritor Technology 4
#40 Wayne W. Cai General Motors 4
#40 Kuo-huey Chen General Motors 4
#40 Tejas M. Varunjikar Steering Solutions Ip Holding 4
#40 Yuqin Zhao Ford 4
#40 Yi Liu IBM 4
#40 Xiujie Gao General Motors 4

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