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Southfield, MI All Time

4,637 patents  ·  906 inventors  ·  60.5/1k pop.

Ranked #727 of 112,640 cities Top 1%

Southfield, MI ranks #727 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 4,637 patents from 906 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Southfield, MI include Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Ford, Basf Se. That works out to 60.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 906 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Shinichi Ito Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 312
2 David Brian Glickman Ford 271
3 Earl Lucas Ford 226
#4 Walter H. Ohrbom Basf Se 121
#5 Nnochiri Ekwuribe Nobex 76
#6 Stephen J. Hudgens Energy Conversion Devices 70
#7 Guy Wicker Ovonyx 58
#8 Scott M. Reilly General Motors 46
#9 Michael Clark Campbell Lexmark International 45
#10 Jeremy Lerner Ford 44
#11 Henry Bernardo Ford 38
#12 Howard Paul Tsvi Linden Ford 34
#13 Pramita Mitra Ford 32
#14 David J. Bauer Tip Engineering Group 30
#14 Rudolf Beim Ford 30
#16 Levasseur Tellis Ford 29
#17 Michael Weinenger Tenneco Gmbh 26
#17 David A. Herman Ford 26
#17 Andrew Massara Lear 26
#20 Abraham Mezaael Ford 25
#21 Rene G. Gonzalez US Army 24
#21 Steven M. Shepard Thermal Wave Imaging 24
#21 Gerard M. Housey Hmi Medical Innovations 24
#21 Vincent Colarossi Veoneer Us 24
#25 Emil M. Shtarkman Trw Limited 23
#25 Gerald R. Black Pen-One 23
#25 Robert W. Paterson RTX (Raytheon) 23
#28 Melkon A. Donikoglu Ultra Wheel 22
#28 Michelle A. PERENY Lear 22
#28 Patrick Graf Serve Virtual Enterprises 22
#31 Girma Gebreselassie Collins & Aikman Products 21
#32 David Jonathan Byron Apex Brands 20
#32 Daniel A. Hill Sensory Logic 20
#32 Ryan A. Fitch IBM 20
#32 S. Miller Weisman, II Detroit Diesel 20
#36 Samuel E. Ebenstein Ford 19
#36 Michael Chopp Henry Ford Health System 19
#36 David L. Noone Itt 19
#39 Boris M. Khudenko American Combustion 18
#39 Jeremy A. Salinger General Motors 18
#39 Simon Roberts Texecom Limited 18
#39 William T. Short General Motors 18
#39 Lance Larsen Johnson Controls Technology 18
#39 Mark Wayne Tensar Corporation 18
#45 Kevin Lucka Ford 17
#45 Ameer Kashani Denso 17
#45 Radovan Miucic Honda Motor Co. 17
#48 Walter L. Dissett Tractech 16
#48 John-Cyril P. Hanisko Trw Limited 16
#48 Richard P. Walter Bendix Limited 16

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