Top Inventors in Grand Rapids, MI

Grand Rapids, MI ranks #326 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 9,401 patents from 1,824 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Grand Rapids, MI include Steelcase, Herman Miller, Cree. That works out to 47.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,824 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Kurt R. Heidmann	Steelcase	207
2	James N. Ludwig	Steelcase	178
3	Bruce M. Smith	Steelcase	171
#4	Nickolaus William Charles Deevers	—	116
#5	Thomas J. Newhouse	Herman Miller	104
#6	John Roberts	Cree	89
#7	Mark Spoelhof	Steelcase	87
#7	David M. Miller	Bissell	87
#9	Mark R. Roth	Gentex	82
#10	Robert Scheper	Steelcase	72
#11	Gary A. Kasper	Bissell Homecare	71
#12	Karl J. Mead	Steelcase	70
#13	Mark McKenna	Steelcase	69
#14	Jeffrey A. Hall	Steelcase	67
#15	Vineet Haresh Mehta	Tesla	62
#15	Daniel C. George, II	Comfort Research	62
#17	Mark E. Gurney	—	59
#18	Kevin L. Ash	Gentex	56
#19	Desmond O'Farrell	Donnelly	55
#20	John Allen	Steelcase	54
#21	Brenton Wehrmeyer	Wolverine Outdoors	53
#22	Timothy P. Coffield	Herman Miller	51
#23	Bradley L. Busscher	Gentex	48
#23	Kenneth M. Lenkiewicz	Bissell Homecare	48
#23	Joseph D. Ward	Illinois Tool Works	48
#26	David M. Gresham	Steelcase Development	46
#26	Matthew Jung	Comfort Research	46
#26	Hyun Yoo	Steelcase	46
#26	Tom Minh Nguyen	Bissell	46
#26	Nick J. Hendriksma	Delphi Technologies	46
#31	Joshua K. Schwannecke	Access Business Group International	45
#32	Matthew J. Norconk	Access Business Group International	44
#33	Howard M. Montgomery	Kohler	42
#33	David K. Jones	Steelcase	42
#33	Mingtang Zhao	Donnelly	42
#36	Shawn G. Orr	Viking Group	41
#37	William F. Schacht	Haworth	39
#37	Carl V. Forslund, III	Steelcase	39
#39	Adam R. Heintzelman	Gentex	38
#40	Phong Hoang Tran	Bissell Homecare	36
#40	Alan E. Rheault	Steelcase	36
#40	Michael E. Miles	Access Business Group International	36
#40	David M. Falb	Gentex	36
#40	George J. Simons, Jr.	Steelcase Development	36
#40	Hamid Najmolhoda	Saturn Electronics & Engineering	36
#46	Adam G. Carr	Bissell Homecare	35
#47	Eric Daniel Buehler	GE	34
#48	Steven E. Field	Bard Peripheral Vascular	33
#48	Arnold B. Dammermann	Steelcase Development	33
#48	Lee A. Chase	Lacks Industries	33

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