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Saline, MI 2021

122 patents  ·  69 inventors  ·  13.6/1k pop.

Ranked #1,173 of 43,435 cities Top 3%

Saline, MI ranks #1,173 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 122 patents from 69 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Saline, MI include Ford, US Dept of Health & Human Services, Toyota. That works out to 13.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 69 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jack Marchlewski Ford 7
2 Michael R. Boyd US Dept of Health & Human Services 6
2 Matthew A. Jansma Toyota 6
#4 Gene Parunak Handylab 5
#5 Andrew Custer Toyota 4
#5 Walter Joseph Ortmann Ford 4
#5 Clinton J. Williams Toyota 4
#8 Xudong Fan University of Michigan 3
#8 Timothy Gerard Offerle Ford 3
#8 John Jeffrey Pfeiffer Ford 3
#8 Ethan D. Sanborn Ford 3
#8 Mark Edward Nichols Trimble Navigation Limited 3
#13 Marcus J. Huber General Motors 2
#13 Pratima Addepalli First Solar 2
#13 Stuart R. Wuerthele Toyota 2
#13 Randy Badia Toyota 2
#13 Paul W. Firehammer A123 Systems 2
#13 Paul J. Fox Basf Se 2
#13 Robert L. Mosingo Extang 2
#13 Ryan C. Harris Toyota 2
#13 Richard E. Soltis Ford 2
#13 Mark Blystone Discma Ag 2
#13 Todd Irgang Rebo Lighting & Electronics 2
#13 Heather L. Knechtges Ford 2
#13 Adrin Wagner Kiekert Ag 2
#13 William Van Kampen Xoran Technologies 2
#27 Michael Shane Losey Rovi Guides 1
#27 Mark D. Hilderbrandt — 1
#27 Christopher T. Gauthier Toyota 1
#27 Mica Marie Debolt Ford 1
#27 Michael Harris Visteon Global Technologies 1
#27 James Robert McBride Ford 1
#27 Paul Andrew Edwards Electronics For Imaging 1
#27 Marisa Ferrara Boston Kpmg Llp 1
#27 Maximilian Podschwadt Schaeffler 1
#27 Mike Carlson Optiflow 1
#27 Jack Adams Ford 1
#27 Zijian Xie Marshall University Research 1
#27 Justin Teems Ford 1
#27 David Michael Whitton Visteon Global Technologies 1
#27 Michael M. Bernitsas University of Michigan 1
#27 Peter M. Tessier Novo Nordisk A/S 1
#27 Olga GRIFFITH University of Michigan 1
#27 Martin Fitzpatrick Frey Ford 1
#27 Debra Lynn Ross Ford 1
#27 Antony Mihalopoulos — 1
#27 Robert David Pallotta Flatout 1
#27 Peidong Han Amcor Rigid Plastics Usa 1
#27 Steve Wichmann Varroc Lighting Systems, S.R.O. 1
#27 Richard Isaacs Ford 1

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