Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Oak Park, MI ranks #3,705 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 791 patents from 200 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Oak Park, MI include Ford, General Motors, Delaware Capital Formation. That works out to 26.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 200 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael Igor Kluzner Ford 44
2 Boris Burgman General Motors 32
3 Minjae Shin General Motors 26
#4 Maurice Perlman Delaware Capital Formation 23
#5 Alex D. Colvin Ford 19
#6 Herbert C. Ovshinsky Energy Conversion Devices 17
#7 Craig R. Thomas R. J. Thomas Mfg. Co. 16
#8 Amber LaVerne Hall Ford 15
#8 Timothy M. Young 15
#10 Paul D. Seemuth Ethyl 14
#11 Robert E. Buxbaum Board Of Trustees Operating Michigan State University 13
#11 Nathaniel Abram Rolfes Ford 13
#11 Roger Levy Tishken Products 13
#11 Morse N. Taxon Daimlerchrysler Ag 13
#15 Stephen E. Eisenstein Basf Wyandotte 12
#16 H. Paul Tsvi Linden Ford 11
#16 Marc A. Bay Sullivans 11
#16 Bradley L. Northman Gentex 11
#16 Marvin H. Weintraub Ford 11
#16 David C. Barker Automotive Products, Plc 11
#21 Robert Howard Saunders Ford 10
#21 Matthias Kapp Schaeffler 10
#21 Stanley Frinak Henry Ford Health System 10
#24 Leo Keselman Fanuc America 9
#24 Leonard H. Bieman Fanuc Robotics North America 9
#24 Harold Josephs Unknown 9
#27 Thomas W. Asmus Chrysler Motors 8
#27 Lisa Polin Wayne State University 8
#27 Meisam Mehravaran Ford 8
#30 Harold W. Rossmoore Board Of Governors Of Wayne State University 7
#30 Joseph E. Fritsch Massey Ferguson Group Limited 7
#30 John G. Dorrough General Motors 7
#33 Jeffrey Weiss American Greetings 6
#33 Lev Sakin Asml Holding N.V. 6
#33 Lester R. Peedin Energy Conversion Devices 6
#33 Sean Peterson Ford 6
#33 Leonard J. Kronberger Chrysler Motors 6
#33 Jerome Kalifa University of Michigan 6
#33 Clay Cundiff Ford 6
#33 Wayne Swoyer Kauffman, III 6
#33 Sydney Puckett Ford 6
#42 Erik Richard Davis Intier Automotive 5
#42 Alexander P. Kotikovsky Trw Vehicle Safety Systems 5
#42 Alan W. Barman Bendix Limited 5
#42 Moshe Rothstein American Axle & Manufacturing 5
#42 Mark Ellis Stoma Ventures 5
#42 Alexander B. Faytlin Proto-Vest 5
#42 Robert Moskowitz Microsoft 5
#49 Samuel B. Kupfer General Motors 4
#49 Michael Uhrin Kiekert Ag 4

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