Ann Arbor is tops in churning out patents

Okay, it's a per capita ranking (patents/thousand jobs) but still tenth in the nation is pretty impressive. For overall patent output over five year (590) we were 37th. That averages out to more than 2 per day. Detroit ranked tenth in overall patents with 2,720 but 35th per capita.
 
Check out the stats by metro area and company here.
 
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