Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Okemos, MI ranks #2,018 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 66 patents from 41 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Okemos, MI include Ford, General Motors, Michigan State University. That works out to 2.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–41 of 41 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Baoming Ge Ford 8
2 Michael J. Karagoulis General Motors 5
3 Cheryl A. Kerfeld Michigan State University 4
3 Jian Ren Michigan State University 4
#5 Steven N. Furtwangler Home Box Office 3
#5 Tongtong Li Michigan State University 3
#5 Premjeet Chahal RTX (Raytheon) 3
#8 Lalita Udpa Michigan State University 2
#8 Junghoon Yeom University Of Illinois 2
#10 Srinivas Kavuturu Michigan State University 1
#10 Jue Lu Metna Co 1
#10 George M. Garrity Namesforlife 1
#10 Jason Dale Nicholas Michigan State University 1
#10 Mohan Krishnan Cardiac Pacemakers 1
#10 Prem Chahal University Of Nebraska 1
#10 Vadim V. Lozovoy Michigan State University 1
#10 Anil K. Jain Apa Optics 1
#10 S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole Michigan State University 1
#10 Bernd Thommes Arcelormittal France 1
#10 Jeffrey Nanzer Michigan State University 1
#10 Qi Hua Fan Michigan State University 1
#10 Robert Hickey Coskata 1
#10 Victor Karthik Michigan State University 1
#10 Patrick Kwon Michigan State University 1
#10 Thomas W. Swasey 1
#10 Satish S. Udpa Michigan State University 1
#10 John K. Lenneman Toyota 1
#10 Hanqing Guo Hangzhou Zero Zero Technology Co. 1
#10 Abdolreza Abdolhosseini Moghadam Thomson Licensing 1
#10 Fang Peng Lockheed Martin 1
#10 Richard L. Witter USDA 1
#10 Sergey S. Kotcharov Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 1
#10 Changlai Yang Equistar Chemicals, Lp 1
#10 David Kramer Intel 1
#10 Gary J. Blanchard Michigan State University 1
#10 Marcos Dantus Michigan State University 1
#10 Thomas P. Nowicki 1
#10 Ravi Soni Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 1
#10 Mi Zhang BOE 1
#10 Qi Ling Michigan State University 1
#10 Steven Bloembergen Ecosynthetix 1

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