Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Auburn Hills, MI ranks #1,306 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,576 patents from 602 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Auburn Hills, MI include General Motors, Guardian Industries, Faurecia Automotive Seating. That works out to 105.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 602 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Tejinder Singh General Motors 84
2 Rudolph Hugo Petrmichl Guardian Industries 82
3 Constantin C. Stancu General Motors 59
#4 Gregory Mordukhovich General Motors 57
#5 Vyacheslav Birman 52
#6 Robert C. Fitzpatrick Faurecia Automotive Seating 43
#7 Haiquan Li Beijing Tusen Zhitu Technology Co. 36
#8 Michael C. Roberts Maytag 32
#8 Brian L. Spohn General Motors 32
#8 Sean P. Burns Automotive Systems Laboratory 32
#11 William P Attard Fca Us Llc. 29
#11 Timothy J. Frey Guardian Glass 29
#11 James Zaguroli, Jr. Knight Industries & Associates 29
#11 Changsoo Choi Autoliv Asp 29
#15 Mircea Gradu The Timken 25
#16 Gerrit V. Beneker Eaton 22
#17 Salah Boussaad E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 21
#17 Len Cech Joyson Safety Systems Acquisition 21
#19 Robert Fraizer 20
#19 Adrian Kantrowitz L•Vad Technology 20
#19 Boney A. Mathew Mathson Industries 20
#22 Richard S. Duff General Motors 19
#22 John R. Suriano Itt Automotive Electrical Systems 19
#24 Ayad Nayef Trw Vehicle Safety Systems 18
#24 Steven Marshall Valeo Climate Control 18
#26 Huide D. Zhu Dow Global Technologies 17
#26 Hylus Ranjit Raj Jayakar Zf Passive Safety Systems, Us 17
#28 Thomas Muday Juggernaut Defense 16
#28 David J. Wolf Bae Systems Survivability Systems 16
#28 Brandon Herzog 16
#28 Daniel P. Sophiea Ddp Specialty Electronic Materials Us, Llc. 16
#32 Derek Washington U.S. Philips 15
#32 Krishna MPK Namburi Steering Solutions Ip Holding 15
#34 Nicholas Borgerding Joyson Safety Systems Acquisition 14
#34 Timothy Young Smith & Nephew 14
#34 Bhanumurthy Veeragandham Dura Operating 14
#34 Harald Lichtinger Siemens Vdo Automotive Ag 14
#34 Hugh Foran Teijin Automotive Technologies 14
#34 Gary Robert Cygan, Jr. General Motors 14
#34 Brian J. Phillips Whirlpool 14
#41 Michael Scott Open Text S.A. 13
#41 Ratandeep Singh Kukreja General Motors 13
#41 Ronald Michael Rygiel Littelfuse 13
#41 Yichao Guo Nissan North America 13
#45 Robert E. Moore Reliable Power Meters 12
#45 David Tsu Energy Conversion Devices 12
#47 Colin Campbell Rpm Wood Finishes Group 11
#47 Ned T. Stetson Energy Conversion Devices 11
#47 Di Yan William Beaumont Hospital 11
#47 Marc M. Menosky American Axle & Manufacturing 11

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