Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Southfield, MI ranks #815 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 171 patents from 89 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Southfield, MI include Ford, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Denso International America. That works out to 2.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 89 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David Brian Glickman Ford 38
2 Jeremy Lerner Ford 10
3 Pramita Mitra Ford 6
#4 Shinichi Ito Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 5
#5 Robert Wunsche, III Denso International America 4
#6 Howard Paul Tsvi Linden Ford 3
#6 Kevin Lucka Ford 3
#6 Anna Frances Hardig Hendrickson Ford 3
#6 Juan Enrique Castorena Martinez Ford 3
#6 Abraham Mezaael Ford 3
#11 Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy Denso International America 2
#11 Bernard DeMersseman Veoneer Us 2
#11 Si Jian Guan Ford 2
#11 Christian Munte Denso 2
#11 Robert J. Sletten Veoneer Us 2
#11 Vincent Colarossi Veoneer Us 2
#11 Dustin Schrieber Federal-Mogul Motorparts 2
#11 Gerard M. Housey Hmi Medical Innovations 2
#11 Daniel Carl Bejune Ford 2
#11 David A. Herman Ford 2
#11 Jagat J. Ghimire Lear 2
#11 Nathaniel Sherrit Denso 2
#11 David Jonathan Byron Apex Brands 2
#11 Radovan Miucic Honda Motor Co. 2
#25 Ricardo Walker Ford 1
#25 Dmitriy Zelmanov Fisher Dynamics 1
#25 Manan Sevak Ford 1
#25 James Elterman Federal-Mogul Motorparts 1
#25 Bart Zudell Denso 1
#25 David Saltzman Hamilton Sundstrand 1
#25 Steven M. Shepard Thermal Wave Imaging 1
#25 Kirill Pavlov 1
#25 Lisa Jean Harlow Basf Coatings Gmbh 1
#25 Tayler Jouja Lear 1
#25 Pushpendra Chauhan General Motors 1
#25 Scott M. Reilly General Motors 1
#25 Aaron Cahill Magna Electronics 1
#25 Stephen G. Poulos General Motors 1
#25 Avaneesh Srinivasa Great Wall Motor Company Limited 1
#25 Johnny Parris Federal-Mogul Motorparts 1
#25 David Burnett Fingerprint Cards Anacatum Ip Ab 1
#25 Siddharth Dasgupta Denso International America 1
#25 Ameer Kashani Denso 1
#25 Clark Fortune Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 1
#25 Julian Svaighert Lear 1
#25 Judith Wright Eaton 1
#25 Arata Itoh Denso 1
#25 Seba Alnajjar Lear 1
#25 Harsh Shah Zf Friedrichshafen Ag 1
#25 Mahdi Rajabpour Ford 1

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