Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Bloomfield Hills, MI ranks #456 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 7,127 patents from 1,072 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Bloomfield Hills, MI include Energy Conversion Devices, Ford, General Motors. That works out to 1598.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,072 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Stanford R. Ovshinsky Energy Conversion Devices 310
2 Dean Carbis Ford 199
3 Mei Cai General Motors 161
#4 Paul M. Najt General Motors 114
#5 Goro Tamai General Motors 111
#5 Miguel A. Linares Linares Medical Devices 111
#7 Hamid G. Kia General Motors 96
#8 Chen-Fang Chang General Motors 87
#9 Gayatri Vyas Dadheech General Motors 86
#9 Robert Adell U.S. Product Development 86
#11 Michael A. Schultz Uop 82
#12 John E. Nemazi 80
#13 Mahendra Somasara Dassanayake Ford 72
#14 Joseph S Dehner Fca Us Llc. 65
#14 Srinivasan Venkatesan Ovonic Battery Company 65
#16 Omer Tsimhoni General Motors 64
#17 Steven G. Thomas Ford 59
#18 Mordechai Lev Fka Distributing Co. 58
#19 Robert B. McMahan General Motors 57
#20 Peter Littrup Delphinus Medical Technologies 56
#21 Garen Nicoghosian Ford 48
#22 Jason Tsai Fanuc America 47
#22 Robin Krieg General Motors 47
#24 Julien P. Mourou General Motors 46
#25 Mohamad Jeffery Hammoud Fca Us Llc. 43
#26 Bradley C. Liang Medtronic 42
#27 Raj S. Roychoudhury Salflex Polymers Limited 41
#27 Chih-hung Yen General Motors 41
#29 Howard L. Benford Chrysler Group 40
#29 Subhash Dhar Ovonic Battery Company 40
#29 Brian Wood The Brinkmann 40
#29 Sergey Kostylev Ovonyx 40
#33 Darrin Neil Wagner Ford 39
#34 Mangala A. Jayasuriya Ford 33
#34 Freeman Carter Gates Ford 33
#36 Gary W. Johnson University of California 31
#37 James Richard Spears Wayne State University 30
#37 Dale A. Gerard General Motors 30
#37 Raffaello Ardanese General Motors 30
#40 Richard M. Chesbrough Bard Peripheral Vascular 29
#40 Michal Illukiewicz Ford 29
#40 Russell P. Durrett General Motors 29
#40 Paul G. Angott First Sense Medical 29
#44 Richard B. Wallace The Oakland 28
#44 Arianna T. Morales General Motors 28
#44 Del C. Schroeder Daimlerchrysler Ag 28
#47 Charles Truan Trynex 27
#47 Lee Walter Seagate Technology 27
#49 John Andrew Stakoe Ford 25
#49 Mark C. Sellnau Delphi Technologies 25

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