Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Farmington Hills, MI ranks #299 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 10,187 patents from 2,032 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Farmington Hills, MI include Magna Electronics, Litton Systems, Ford. That works out to 121.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,032 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Yuesheng Lu Magna Electronics 161
2 Robert E. Stewart Litton Systems 135
3 Solomon Song Ford 125
#4 Umesh N. Gandhi Toyota 118
#5 Lihua Chen Ford 101
#5 John Ivey Ilumisys 101
#7 Steven Gilmore Ford 88
#8 Daniel Scott Colvin Ford 78
#9 Wei Liang Ford 71
#10 William Charles Ruona Ford 69
#11 Michael Glick Lear 68
#12 Robert J. Wentworth Belanger 67
#13 Joseph E. Abramczyk Ford 64
#14 Ankit Tiwari Carrier 61
#14 Kurt A. Seibold Johnson Controls Technology 61
#16 John A. Diemer General Motors 52
#17 Robert E. Weinstein Seagate Technology 50
#17 Ryan J. Skaff Ford 50
#17 Douglas Scott Rhode Ford 50
#20 Roy Goudy Nissan North America 49
#20 Vivek Amir Jairazbhoy Ford 49
#22 Stephen Kenneth Helwig Ford 48
#23 Robert F. Novak Ford 46
#23 Ove J. Salomonsson Magna Electronics 46
#25 Xin Ye Ford 45
#25 Patrick Powell Denso International America 45
#27 Adil Nizam Siddiqui Ford 42
#27 Neal Probert Nissan North America 42
#29 Gregory A. Major General Motors 41
#30 Joseph Carr Meyers Ford 40
#31 Gregory G. Menovcik Basf Se 39
#31 Ding Y. Chung E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 39
#33 Swaminathan Ramesh Basf Se 38
#34 Peter F. King Openwave Systems 37
#35 David George General Motors 35
#35 Muhammad E. Abdallah General Motors 35
#37 James Yu-Hsin Kuo Ford 33
#37 Elisabeth J. Berger General Motors 33
#37 John E. Carlson Tektronix 33
#37 Douglas J. Wheeler Eltech Systems 33
#37 Jacobus Hendrik Visser Ford 33
#37 Krishna Bandi Ford 33
#43 Leonid Basin General Motors 32
#44 David Marquette Gentherm Incorporated 31
#44 Elizabeth I. Wooden General Motors 31
#46 Christopher William Newman Ford 30
#46 Bharat Kalidas Trivedi Warner-Lambert Company 30
#48 Peter E. Wu General Motors 29
#48 Ahmed Awadi Ford 29
#50 Taehee Han Nissan North America 28

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