Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Madison Heights, MI ranks #2,785 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,104 patents from 274 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Madison Heights, MI include Eaton, Irvin Automotive Products, Bestop. That works out to 38.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 274 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David M. Preston Eaton 59
2 Joseph P. Wieczorek Irvin Automotive Products 55
3 Duane C. Junkin Bestop 35
#4 Jeffrey D. Walker Finisar 33
#5 Gary Lee Jones General Motors 32
#6 Syed Mohammad Ali Oracle 30
#7 Joey Ray Grover Livio 29
#8 Pete R. Garcia General Motors 25
#9 Carl T. Montgomery Atlantic Richfield 22
#10 Liang Xi General Motors 21
#11 Thomas A. Yersak General Motors 18
#12 Thomas Joseph Ciccone Ford 16
#13 Gary M. Richter Dci Marketing 15
#13 Thomas J. Conrad Apple 15
#15 Cameron Knight Abec 14
#15 Oscar M. Grace Basf Se 14
#15 Craig Schang Basf Se 14
#18 Michael R. Palazzolo Borgwarner 13
#19 David V. Tinder RTX (Raytheon) 12
#20 Steven A. Del Gaizo General Motors 11
#20 Clayton Davis General Motors 11
#22 Michael H. Carlson General Motors 10
#22 Leonard F. Kopich General Motors 10
#22 Jonathon Campian Modern Body Engineering 10
#25 Donald P. Murphy Henkel Limited 9
#25 Michael C. Niezur Sika Technology Ag 9
#27 David Lee Jarvis Ford 8
#27 Michael Chase Autodesk 8
#27 Greg Ford Eaton 8
#27 James Turnbach Basf Se 8
#27 Eric Robinson College Park Industries 8
#32 Marc B. Center General Motors 7
#32 William L. Behrens Chrysler Group 7
#32 Mark Graf Schaeffler 7
#32 George Konstantakopoulos Daimlerchrysler Ag 7
#32 James Scanlon Brasscraft Manufacturing 7
#32 William Cochran Denso International America 7
#32 Siva Srinivas Rajeev Mupparti Allison Transmission 7
#39 Jared Shroyer Ford 6
#39 Anthony Christman General Motors 6
#39 Daniel Heisler Dormakaba Usa 6
#39 Sagar Nagaluru LG 6
#39 Zachariah Smith Fca Us Llc. 6
#44 Jose Deleon General Motors 5
#44 Michael A. Faucett, Jr. General Motors 5
#44 Christopher Brady General Motors 5
#44 John M. Bederka Chrysler Group 5
#44 Freddy V. Rayes General Motors 5
#44 William Reese Cherry Ford 5
#44 Larry D. Lay Unknown 5

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