Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Novi, MI ranks #256 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 11,910 patents from 1,560 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Novi, MI include Ford, Sanyo Electric Co., Foxconn Technology Group Co.. That works out to 179.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,560 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 John Robert Van Wiemeersch Ford 340
2 Michael W. Degner Ford 298
3 Darrell Behmer Ford 295
#4 S. M. Iskander Farooq Ford 266
#5 Xiaogang Zhang Ford 175
#6 Manoharprasad K. Rao Ford 163
#7 Tsutomu Yamada Sanyo Electric Co. 142
#8 Dimitar Petrov Filev Ford 139
#9 Saeed David Barbat Ford 134
#10 Guang Yu Foxconn Technology Group Co. 123
#10 Ping Chen J.S.T. 123
#12 Bernard D. Nefcy Ford 105
#13 Scott D. Thomas General Motors 104
#14 Ilya Kolmanovsky Ford 101
#15 Xin Yu Appotronics Corporation Limited 95
#16 Barry S. Turner Belanger 88
#17 Wei Yuan Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co. 82
#18 Doyle Letson Ford 81
#19 Xiaosong Huang General Motors 77
#20 Brent Boyce Guardian Glass 72
#21 Yoichi Sugimoto Honda Motor Co. 70
#22 James E. Thompson GE 68
#23 James Stewart Rankin, II Ford 63
#23 Segundo Baldovino Ford 63
#23 Dale Arden Stretch Eaton 63
#26 Shailesh Shrikant Kozarekar Ford 58
#26 Kai Zhao Magna Seating 58
#26 Vijay Ramappan General Motors 58
#29 David U. Hillstrom Marketing Displays 57
#30 Gaurav Talwar General Motors 56
#31 Jaewoo Chang Ford 55
#31 Bo Yu General Motors 55
#33 Hongbin Wang Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 54
#33 Cheong Choon Ng Choon'S Design 54
#35 Michael P. Balogh General Motors 53
#36 SeyedAlireza Kasaiezadeh Mahabadi University Of Waterloo 50
#37 Scott A. Bohr Ford 48
#37 David Keith Gill Eaton 48
#37 Frank C. Valeri General Motors 48
#40 Gintaras Vincent Puskorius Ford 47
#41 Hualin Tan General Motors 45
#41 Halim G. Santoso General Motors 45
#43 Thomas Heck Hayes Lemmerz International 44
#44 Peter Kim Toyota 43
#44 Paul Fredrick Luther Weindorf Visteon Global Technologies 43
#44 Dhanendra Kumar Nagwanshi Sabic Global Technologies B.V. 43
#44 Srinivas Reddy Malapati Ford 43
#48 Venkata Prasad Atluri General Motors 42
#48 Robert Walter McCabe Ford 42
#48 Iskander Farooq Ford 42

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