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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Dearborn, MI ranks #272 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 507 patents from 226 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Dearborn, MI include Ford, IBM, Electronic Arts. That works out to 4.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 226 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ross Dykstra Pursifull Ford 28
2 Omead Dorandishyazdi Ford 24
3 Luke Niewiadomski Ford 19
#4 John Wayne Jaranson Ford 12
#4 Joseph Norman Ulrey Ford 12
#6 Mohannad Hakeem Ford 10
#6 Eric Matthew Kurtz Ford 10
#8 S. George Luckey, Jr. Ford 8
#8 Nitin Singh IBM 8
#10 Kristopher Karl Brown Ford 7
#11 Michael Glenn Fodor Ford 6
#11 Kenneth J. Jackson Ford 6
#11 Timothy Noah Blatchley Ford 6
#11 George Bucher Ford 6
#11 Mohamed Marwan Mattar Electronic Arts 6
#16 Bilal Alasry Denso International America 5
#16 Carol Casey Ford 5
#16 Giovanni Cavataio Ford 5
#16 Angel Fernando Porras Ford 5
#16 Daniel Paul Madison Ford 5
#16 Victoria Leigh Schein Ford 5
#16 Hafiz Shafeek Khafagy Ford 5
#16 Christine Kay Lambert Ford 5
#16 Anton Rogness Ford 5
#25 Samer Ibrahim Ford 4
#25 Nicholas Herhusky Ford 4
#25 Shiqi Qiu Ford 4
#25 Raghuraman Surineedi Ford 4
#25 Robert Gelardi Ford 4
#25 Liangjun Hu Ford 4
#25 Keith Allen Godin Ford 4
#25 Jeffrey Charles Paddock Ford 4
#25 Kevin James Rhodes Ford 4
#34 Wesley Edward Burkman Ford 3
#34 Peter Simeon Lazarevski Ford 3
#34 Krithika Swaminathan Ford 3
#34 Prasad Dev Hanumalagutti Ford 3
#34 Heinrich Enslin Ford 3
#34 Steven Sute Denso International America 3
#34 Farouq Mozip Ford 3
#34 Cyrille Goldstein Ford 3
#34 Steven Yellin Schondorf Ford 3
#34 Orest Alexandru Dziubinschi Hanon Systems 3
#34 Paul Mason Robert Bosch Gmbh 3
#34 Carol Louise Okubo Ford 3
#34 Roy Zhou Ford 3
#34 Joseph Jay Torres Ford 3
#34 Anthony Melatti Ford 3
#49 David Randolph Roberts Ford 2
#49 Ryan Sikorski Ford 2

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