Top Inventors in Grand Rapids, MI

Grand Rapids, MI ranks #288 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 477 patents from 234 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Grand Rapids, MI include Steelcase, Bissell, Innophos. That works out to 2.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 234 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Nickolaus William Charles Deevers	—	15
2	Mark Spoelhof	Steelcase	14
3	Kurt R. Heidmann	Steelcase	13
#4	David M. Miller	Bissell	12
#5	James N. Ludwig	Steelcase	9
#6	Tom Minh Nguyen	Bissell	8
#6	Jatinder Rana	Innophos	8
#8	John Allen	Steelcase	7
#8	Jacob S. Boles	Bissell	7
#8	Colin J. Bloemendaal	Bissell	7
#8	Bruce M. Smith	Steelcase	7
#12	Ryan Haase	Grand Rapids Chair	6
#12	Mark McKenna	Steelcase	6
#12	Tricia Forbes	Comfort Research	6
#12	Adam R. Heintzelman	Gentex	6
#12	Joseph D. Ward	Illinois Tool Works	6
#12	Derek Everett Smith	Bissell	6
#12	Mark Charles Stephens	Roka Sports	6
#19	Mark R. Roth	Gentex	5
#19	David K. Jones	Steelcase	5
#19	Hyun Yoo	Steelcase	5
#19	Stephen J. Simpson	Haworth	5
#19	Xiaoxu Niu	Gentex	5
#24	Nicolai Czumaj-Bront	Haworth	4
#24	Jason W. Pruiett	Bissell	4
#24	Gary A. Kasper	Bissell Homecare	4
#24	David M. Falb	Gentex	4
#24	Bryan Matthew Ulmer	Stryker	4
#24	Paul Noll	Steelcase	4
#24	John Roberts	Cree	4
#24	Patrick Kevin Shields	Sanford	4
#24	Michael E. Miles	Access Business Group International	4
#24	Brenton Wehrmeyer	Wolverine Outdoors	4
#34	David Terrance Becker	Stryker	3
#34	Charles Beasley	Steelcase	3
#34	Remco Bergsma	—	3
#34	Robert Poel	Steelcase	3
#34	Robert Scheper	Steelcase	3
#34	David Michael Lax	GE	3
#34	Randal S. Baker	Bfkw	3
#34	Elliott Richard Heinrich	—	3
#34	Pradeep Mydur	Steelcase	3
#34	Jason T. Zawodny	Micron	3
#34	Kevin L. Ash	Gentex	3
#34	Corey Barnes	Baby Jogger	3
#34	Jeremy A. Schut	Gentex	3
#34	John A. Amash	Tekton	3
#48	Bryan Wahlfield	Steelcase	2
#48	Matthew V. Steffes	Magna Mirrors Of America	2
#48	Michael Clay Scholten	GE	2

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