Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Ann Arbor, MI ranks #57 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,906 patents from 1,002 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ann Arbor, MI include Ford, Toyota, Stanford University. That works out to 15.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,002 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mohammad Omar Faruque Ford 30
2 Shailesh N. Joshi Toyota 24
2 Ercan Mehmet Dede Stanford University 24
#4 Stephen R. Forrest Princeton University 15
#5 Ali Hassani Ford 14
#5 Deepak Sharma Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited 14
#5 Chen Ling Toyota 14
#8 Chingchi Chen Ford 12
#8 Ryohei Tsuruta Toyota 12
#10 Debasish Banerjee Toyota 11
#10 Roger Arnold Trombley Ford 11
#12 Yingze Bao Baidu Usa 10
#12 Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt Ford 10
#14 Derek F. Lahr General Motors 9
#14 Geoffrey D. Gaither Toyota 9
#14 Ray C. Siciak Ford 9
#14 Fan Bai General Motors 9
#14 Xiaopeng Li Toyota 9
#14 Blair E. Carlson General Motors 9
#20 Patrick Daniel Maguire Ford 8
#20 Ryuta Sugiura Toyota 8
#20 Songtao Wu Toyota 8
#20 Pu Zhang Navitas Systems 8
#20 Mohamed Ridha Baccouche Ford 8
#20 Ryan M. Wiesenberg Toyota 8
#20 Hideo Iizuka Toyota 8
#20 Taehwa Lee Toyota 8
#28 Daniel Benjamin Kok Ford 7
#28 Yanan Zhao Ford 7
#28 Serdar Hakki Yonak Ford 7
#28 Feng Zhou Toyota 7
#28 Paul Donald Schmalenberg Toyota 7
#28 Sundaresh N. Brahmasandra Handylab 7
#28 Brian J. Pinkelman Toyota 7
#28 Mostafa Parchami Ford 7
#28 Srinivasan Sundararajan Ford 7
#37 Benjamin A. Tabatowski-Bush Ford 6
#37 Jovan Milivoje Zagajac Ford 6
#37 Hongfei Jia Toyota 6
#37 Eid Farha Ford 6
#37 Gary D. Glick University of Michigan 6
#37 Amanda Kay Freis Ford 6
#37 Junghoon Kim Samsung 6
#37 Shiming Duan General Motors 6
#37 Fling Tseng Ford 6
#37 Jang Hwan Cho Endra Life Sciences 6
#37 Kjell Johnson Elucid Bioimaging 6
#37 Aasheesh Kolli Broadcom 6
#37 Jamil M. Alwan Ford 6
#37 John Erik Mikael Hellstrom Ford 6

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