Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Novi, MI ranks #226 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 606 patents from 270 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Novi, MI include Ford, Belanger, Appotronics Corporation Limited. That works out to 9.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 270 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 S. M. Iskander Farooq Ford 29
2 John Robert Van Wiemeersch Ford 27
3 Michael W. Degner Ford 24
#4 Xiaogang Zhang Ford 12
#5 Barry S. Turner Belanger 10
#5 Xin Yu Appotronics Corporation Limited 10
#7 Saeed David Barbat Ford 8
#7 Dale Arden Stretch Eaton 8
#7 Sumanth Reddy Dadam Ford 8
#10 Bo Yu General Motors 7
#11 Kai Zhao Magna Seating 6
#11 Michael Adel Awad Alla Ford 6
#11 SeyedAlireza Kasaiezadeh Mahabadi University Of Waterloo 6
#11 Sipei Chen Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies 6
#11 Hongbin Wang Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 6
#11 Vikas Azad J.S.T. 6
#11 Hari Krishna Addanki Ford 6
#11 Scott D. Thomas General Motors 6
#19 Shintaro Katsura Aisin Technical Center Of America 5
#19 Xiaosong Huang General Motors 5
#19 Daniel C. Broaddus Ford 5
#19 Srinivas Reddy Malapati Ford 5
#19 Di Zhu Ford 5
#19 Gintaras Vincent Puskorius Ford 5
#25 Neeraj S. Shidore General Motors 4
#25 Hualin Tan General Motors 4
#25 Bhavani Thota Ford 4
#25 David Trumpy Harman International Industries, Incorporated 4
#25 Linsheng Chen Ford 4
#25 Michael P. Balogh General Motors 4
#25 Hojoon Kang Ford 4
#25 Dimitar Petrov Filev Ford 4
#25 Eunsung Lee Samsung 4
#25 Xiaofeng F. Song General Motors 4
#25 Segundo Baldovino Ford 4
#25 David Dai Pittsburgh Glass Works 4
#25 Leyi Zhu Ford 4
#25 Mohammed Hussain Abdul Jabbar Nissan North America 4
#25 Darrell Behmer Ford 4
#25 Bernard D. Nefcy Ford 4
#25 Andrey M. Ilinich Ford 4
#42 Frank C. Valeri General Motors 3
#42 Ravi Gopal Ford 3
#42 Vijay Ramappan General Motors 3
#42 Jian Wan Ford 3
#42 Cristian Damboiu Gecom 3
#42 Yu Zhang Hypertherm 3
#42 Somak Datta Gupta 3
#42 Bryan Farris Gecom 3
#42 Ping Chen J.S.T. 3

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