Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Westland, MI ranks #1,676 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,992 patents from 501 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Westland, MI include Ford, Enertrols, Basf Se. That works out to 23.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 501 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Robert Roy Jentz Ford 142
2 Cynthia M. Neubecker Ford 57
3 Satyanarayana Raju Vemulapati Ford 43
#4 Robert J. Heideman Enertrols 38
#5 Donald L. St. Aubin Basf Se 35
#6 Eduardo L. Quioc Tk Holdings 32
#7 Daniel V. Orzel Ford 28
#7 George Albert Garfinkel Ford 28
#9 Charles Everett Badger, II Ford 25
#10 Charles E. Freese, V General Motors 23
#10 Patrick Lawrence Jackson Van Hoecke Ford 23
#12 Robert Charles Shipley Ford 20
#12 Anthony Colard Ford 20
#14 Timothy J. Bomya Automotive Systems Laboratory 19
#15 Joseph P. Schutte Brasscraft Manufacturing 18
#16 Jacob Grimaldo Aisin Technical Center Of America 17
#17 Vignesh Sekar Rivian Ip Holdings 16
#17 Todd Ansbacher Ford 16
#17 Brian Downey Nissan Technical Center North America 16
#17 Thomas F. Kaltenbach Eastman Kodak 16
#17 William Gronowicz, Jr. 16
#17 Dennis Vermette Hanon Systems 16
#23 Kian-Huat Tan Ford 15
#24 David G. Peterson Honda Motor Co. 14
#24 John P. Casci Ford 14
#26 Lizhi Zhu 13
#26 David T. Durocher Basf Se 13
#26 Michael Tisiker AT&T 13
#26 Halim Wijaya Ford 13
#26 Anne Jefferson Novartis Vaccines And Diagnostics 13
#26 Akash Changarankumarath Pradeepkumar Ford 13
#32 Gopichandra Sumilla Ford 12
#32 Frank Hanson Ford 12
#32 Larry T. Brown Ford 12
#35 Thomas R. Tudor Nordson 11
#35 John N. Topolewski Lear 11
#35 Jun-Hai Li Foxconn Technology Group Co. 11
#35 James Richardson Columbia Manufacturing 11
#39 Jen Vun Ng 10
#40 Maha Hammoud A123 Systems 9
#40 Zachary Konchan Ford 9
#40 Jerry J. Goodwin Mathread 9
#40 Joseph Prescott Hickey Ford 9
#40 Russell S. Gans Morton International 9
#40 David Hoffman Ford 9
#40 Kenneth Zaleski Broadcom 9
#40 Barry John Melhorn Ford 9
#40 Toussaint Carpenter Ford 9
#40 Jinchun Peng General Motors 9
#40 Pavithra Madhavan Ford 9

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