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Troy, MI All Time

17,549 patents  ·  2,712 inventors  ·  201.0/1k pop.

Ranked #161 of 112,640 cities Top 1%

Troy, MI ranks #161 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 17,549 patents from 2,712 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Troy, MI include Ford, General Motors, IBM. That works out to 201.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,712 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gordon M. Platto Ford 404
2 Chandra S. Namuduri General Motors 317
3 Norman K. Bucknor General Motors 210
#4 Patrick B. Usoro General Motors 205
#5 Chunhao J. Lee General Motors 199
#6 Pei-Chung Wang General Motors 164
#7 Suresh Gopalakrishnan General Motors 156
#8 Mark W. Verbrugge General Motors 144
#9 Lei Hao General Motors 137
#10 Xingcheng Xiao General Motors 126
#11 Swaminathan Balasubramanian IBM 121
#12 Mahmoud H. Abd Elhamid General Motors 103
#13 Rajeev Sharma Videomining 97
#13 Manoj Sharma General Motors 97
#13 Wei Tong General Motors 97
#16 Peter A. Hochstein Relume Technologies 96
#17 Robert J. Martin Arvinmeritor Technology 93
#18 Paul E. Krajewski General Motors 91
#18 Christopher L. Oesterling General Motors 91
#20 Dennis A. Kramer Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems Limited 88
#21 Xiujie Gao General Motors 85
#22 Alexander Serkh Gates 84
#23 James Chih Cheng Ford 83
#24 Keith V. Leigh-Monstevens Automotive Products, Plc 81
#24 Timothy P. Kozub General Motors 81
#26 Manfred Koberstein Ford 78
#26 Kai-Han Chang General Motors 78
#28 Khwaja M. Rahman General Motors 75
#28 David T. Proefke General Motors 75
#30 Chi-Kuan Kao General Motors 74
#30 James G. Schroth General Motors 74
#32 Xiaofeng Yang General Motors 72
#33 Rashmi Prasad General Motors 69
#34 Thomas M. Shea T.M. Shea Products 68
#34 William C. Lin General Motors 68
#36 Gongshin Qi General Motors 66
#37 Sanjeev M. Naik General Motors 65
#38 Paul D. Daly Siemens Automotive 63
#39 Martin R. Matthews Magna Exteriors 61
#39 Kumaraswamy V. Hebbale General Motors 61
#41 Shih-Ken Chen General Motors 59
#42 Kwo Young Ovonic Battery Company 58
#43 Lawrence J. Lawson Android Industries 57
#43 Mohannad Murad General Motors 57
#45 Cheng Gong Shenzhen Intellirocks Tech. Co. 56
#45 Taeyoung Han General Motors 56
#45 Roger Khami Ford 56
#45 Min Sun General Motors 56
#49 Yuen-Kwok Chin General Motors 55
#49 Da Yu Wang Delphi Technologies 55

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