Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Troy, MI ranks #180 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 750 patents from 351 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Troy, MI include Ford, General Motors, IBM. That works out to 8.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 351 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gordon M. Platto Ford 66
2 Xingcheng Xiao General Motors 14
3 Chandra S. Namuduri General Motors 13
#4 Lei Hao General Motors 12
#5 Fang Dai General Motors 9
#5 Swaminathan Balasubramanian IBM 9
#5 Wei Tong General Motors 9
#8 Chunhao J. Lee General Motors 8
#8 Mahmoud H. Abd Elhamid General Motors 8
#8 Mark W. Verbrugge General Motors 8
#8 Manfred Koberstein Ford 8
#12 Paul E. Krajewski General Motors 7
#12 Tejas M. Varunjikar Steering Solutions Ip Holding 7
#12 Kai-Han Chang General Motors 7
#15 Mohannad Murad General Motors 6
#15 Pei-Chung Wang General Motors 6
#15 Manoj Sharma General Motors 6
#15 Martin R. Matthews Magna Exteriors 6
#15 Li Yang General Motors 6
#15 Probir Kumar Guha Continental Structural Plastics 6
#15 Gongshin Qi General Motors 6
#15 Jinglin Li General Motors 6
#23 Shaun D. Tait Faurecia Automotive Seating 5
#23 Lurun Zhong Fca Us Llc. 5
#23 Hussam Makkiya Ford 5
#23 Rashmi Prasad General Motors 5
#23 Edward Chan-Jiun Jih Ford 5
#23 Kausalya Singuru General Motors 5
#23 Taeyoung Han General Motors 5
#23 Min Sun General Motors 5
#23 Garrett M. Seeman General Motors 5
#23 Alexander Zak Magna International 5
#23 Sherman H. Zeng General Motors 5
#34 Suresh Gopalakrishnan General Motors 4
#34 Xuexian Yin Valeo Kapec Co. 4
#34 Ningsheng Qiao 4
#34 Rajeev Sharma Videomining 4
#34 Hui Wang General Motors 4
#34 Wayne W. Cai General Motors 4
#34 Anthony L. Smith General Motors 4
#34 Dennis A. Kramer Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems Limited 4
#34 Feng Feng Hamilton Sundstrand 4
#34 Soheil Samii General Motors 4
#34 Christopher Keeney Arvinmeritor Technology 4
#34 Rajesh Kumar Malhan Denso 4
#34 Xiaofeng Yang General Motors 4
#34 James G. Schroth General Motors 4
#34 Venkateshwar R. Aitharaju General Motors 4
#34 Jinzhu Chen General Motors 4
#34 Daniel W. Booth General Motors 4

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