Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Dearborn, MI ranks #330 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 9,312 patents from 1,494 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Dearborn, MI include Ford, Eaton, Livernois Research & Development. That works out to 84.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,494 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ross Dykstra Pursifull Ford 549
2 Joseph Norman Ulrey Ford 288
3 George Bucher Ford 285
#4 Michael John Cullen Ford 156
#5 Eric Matthew Kurtz Ford 101
#6 John Wayne Jaranson Ford 98
#7 Marvin Paul Kraska Ford 92
#8 Luke Niewiadomski Ford 82
#9 Mohannad Hakeem Ford 79
#9 Thomas A. Genise Eaton 79
#11 Tyler Jon Blake Ford 74
#12 Daniel A. Makled Ford 73
#13 Angel Fernando Porras Ford 70
#14 James E. Anderson Ford 66
#15 Steven Yellin Schondorf Ford 62
#16 Hafiz Shafeek Khafagy Ford 61
#17 Diana Brehob Ford 57
#18 William Paul Perkins Ford 56
#18 Robert Bruce Kleve Ford 56
#20 Giovanni Cavataio Ford 55
#20 Bernard J. Wallis Livernois Research & Development 55
#22 Hussein H. Berry Ford 53
#23 Victoria Leigh Schein Ford 47
#23 J C. Mays Ford 47
#25 Michael Glenn Fodor Ford 46
#26 David W. Martin Xerox 45
#27 Carol Louise Okubo Ford 43
#28 Nitin Singh IBM 42
#28 Kristopher Karl Brown Ford 42
#28 Kenneth J. Jackson Ford 42
#28 Christine Kay Lambert Ford 42
#32 S. George Luckey, Jr. Ford 40
#33 Timothy Noah Blatchley Ford 39
#34 Richard F. Audi Oakwood Energy Management 38
#35 Mark Allen Dearth Ford 37
#36 Joseph Szuba Ford 36
#37 Steven Frank Ford 35
#38 Keith Allen Godin Ford 34
#38 Nate Trask Ford 34
#40 Jonathan P. Cotter Dadco 33
#41 Hulya Demiryont Ford 32
#41 Mohamed Marwan Mattar Electronic Arts 32
#41 Pattrick Loew Ford 32
#44 Richard Keith McMillan Visteon Global Technologies 31
#44 Timothy J. Potter Ford 31
#44 Kevin James Rhodes Ford 31
#47 Elaine Chen Ford 30
#47 Thomas Megli Ford 30
#47 Todd N. Clark Ford 30
#50 Myron Lemecha Visteon Global Technologies 29

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