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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Belleville, MI ranks #1,835 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,794 patents from 306 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Belleville, MI include General Motors, Ford, Basf Wyandotte. That works out to 447.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 306 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 James M. Hart General Motors 494
2 Linh Doan Ford 46
3 Paul Stephen Bryan Ford 34
3 Paul Hollar Ford 34
3 Shunsuke Okubo Ford 34
#6 Joe C. Wilson Basf Wyandotte 33
#7 Boris Liberman I.D.E. Technologies 28
#8 Eugene E. Rhodes Ford 27
#9 Louis G. Kovach, II Liontech Trains 26
#9 Matthew J. Holland Black & Decker 26
#9 Corey James Blue Ford 26
#12 Esteban Camacho General Motors 21
#13 Guntis V. Strikis Ford 20
#13 John Curtis Hickey Ford 20
#15 Karl Nathan Clark Ford 14
#16 David F. Swanson 13
#16 Raymond J. Florian 13
#16 Thomas Krautheim Visteon Global Technologies 13
#16 Christopher House Ford 13
#16 Dennis E. Cox 13
#16 George Paul Cybernet Systems 13
#16 Peter E. Hackett Dwyer Instruments 13
#23 Brendan J. Tarrier Rubicon Genomics 12
#23 Frank M. Korpics Ford 12
#23 Olumayokun Obembe Salesforce 12
#26 John Wesley Stanley Ford 11
#26 Shashidhar M. Kamath 11
#26 Michael Schrader Ford 11
#26 Jason Eugene Devries Ford 11
#26 Daniel Cornelius Bach Ford 11
#26 Andrew W. Pantke Guardian Glass 11
#32 Sridhar Lakshmanan University of Michigan 10
#32 Christopher Polonowski Ford 10
#32 Robert William Miller Ford 10
#32 Anna Miller Hill Ford 10
#36 Joseph D. Mastie Borgwarner 9
#36 Craig Lechlitner Ford 9
#36 Katherine Jane Brewer Ford 9
#36 Karl Douglas Vandivier Ford 9
#36 Paul T. McCrary Borgwarner 9
#41 Kevin Robert Chauvin Aisin Technical Center Of America 8
#41 James W. Girard Ford 8
#41 Jim Stevens Ford 8
#41 Joseph Patrick Whitehead Ford 8
#41 Fred N. Blackmore, Jr. 8
#41 Michael Steven Wallis Ford 8
#41 Hasib Hassan Magna Electronics 8
#41 Adam Wirth Ford 8
#49 Scott M. Skelton General Motors 7
#49 Christopher Howe Amcor Limited 7

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