Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Ann Arbor, MI ranks #53 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 41,585 patents from 6,071 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ann Arbor, MI include Princeton University, Broadcom, Stanford University. That works out to 335.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 6,071 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Stephen R. Forrest Princeton University 414
2 Alexander G. MacInnis Broadcom 253
3 Ercan Mehmet Dede Stanford University 252
#4 Mohammad Omar Faruque Ford 236
#5 Anthony H. Heap General Motors 220
#6 Vijayen S. Veerasamy Guardian Industries 204
#7 Phillip Dan Cook Isis Pharmaceuticals 190
#8 Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt Ford 188
#9 Shailesh N. Joshi Toyota 187
#10 Mohammed N. Islam Omni Medsci 184
#11 Alex O'Connor Gibson Ford 183
#12 Feng Zhou Toyota 164
#13 Yongcai Wang Eastman Kodak 160
#14 Moray S. Callum Ford 156
#15 Mohammed Omar Faruque Ford 154
#16 Fan Bai General Motors 153
#17 Barry N. Gellman Boston Scientific Scimed 145
#18 Yuji Fujii Ford 144
#19 Nilesh D. Mankame General Motors 143
#20 Jun-Mo Kang General Motors 140
#21 Patrick Daniel Maguire Ford 139
#22 David T. Connor Warner-Lambert Company 120
#23 Ali Hassani Ford 117
#23 Debasish Banerjee Toyota 117
#25 Deepak Sharma Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited 116
#26 Douglas M. Smith Texas Instruments 114
#27 Keith Hampton Dayco Ip Holdings 113
#28 David W. Schneider Autoliv Asp 112
#29 Donald J. Harter University of Michigan 111
#29 Mohamed Ridha Baccouche Ford 111
#31 Kenichi Kuroda Hitachi 110
#32 Sang-Won Yoon Samsung 109
#33 Ryan Abraham McGee Ford 107
#33 Donald Remboski Motorola 107
#35 Roger Arnold Trombley Ford 98
#36 Thomas Lee Miller Ford 97
#37 Chingchi Chen Ford 96
#38 David Theodore Blaauw University of Michigan 95
#39 Fling Tseng Ford 92
#40 Yanan Zhao Ford 90
#41 Desaraju V. Varaprasad Donnelly 89
#41 Norbert Schneider Basf Se 89
#43 Charles J. Jacobus Cybernet Systems 88
#44 Pramod K. Sharma Guardian Industries 86
#45 Blaise J. Ganzel 81
#45 Russell Randall Pearce Ford 81
#45 Thomas Edward Pilutti Ford 81
#45 Katsuhiro Sakai Toyota 81
#45 Dale L. Grover Google 81
#50 Xiaopeng Li Toyota 79

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