Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Ithaca, NY ranks #375 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 324 patents from 192 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ithaca, NY include Thomson Licensing, Novomer, Cornell University. That works out to 10.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 192 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Peng Yin Thomson Licensing 30
2 Jay J. Farmer Novomer 10
3 Emmanuel P. Giannelis Cornell University 6
3 Davide Domenico Fortusini Corning Incorporated 6
3 Mohammad Harunar Rashid Cornell University 6
#6 Matthew P. DeLisa Cornell University 5
#6 Ljerka Ukrainczyk Corning Incorporated 5
#8 David Erickson Cornell University 4
#8 Alan Shieh Nicira 4
#8 John W. Parkins Red Tail Hawk 4
#8 Harold G. Craighead Cornell Research Foundation 4
#12 Luqiao Liu IBM 3
#12 Kirk M. Sigel Isolynx 3
#12 Kazuki Nomoto Sony 3
#12 Akinleye C. Alabi Caltech 3
#12 Robert Alan Bellman Corning Incorporated 3
#12 Steven A. Supron Pitney Bowes 3
#12 Christopher K. Ober Cornell Research Foundation 3
#12 Leo B. Kriksunov Johnson & Johnson 3
#12 Mary Ellen Carollo IBM 3
#12 Chris A. Simoneau Novomer 3
#12 Prantik Mazumder Corning Incorporated 3
#12 Janani Mukundan IBM 3
#12 Joseph F. Flint Microbios 3
#25 Seiya Ohta Canon 2
#25 Robert A. Buhrman Cornell University 2
#25 Franklin Faping Duan Cornell University 2
#25 Chi-Feng Pai Cornell University 2
#25 Kilian Quirin Weinberger Asapp 2
#25 Lynden A. Archer Cornell University 2
#25 Robert A. Joyce Architecture Technology 2
#25 Edward J. Dubovi Cornell Research Foundation 2
#25 Amit Halder Corning Incorporated 2
#25 Shailesh Upreti 2
#25 Chris Xu Cornell Research Foundation 2
#25 Sunwoo Lee Samsung 2
#25 James R. Shealy GE 2
#25 Thomas J. Mansell Cornell Research Foundation 2
#25 Gwendolyn Spizz Rheonix 2
#25 Alexei A. Gridnev E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 2
#25 Mark Buckler Elucid Bioimaging 2
#25 Hyunyoung Song Autodesk 2
#25 Steve Marschner Disney 2
#25 Micah Joel Fuchs General Motors 2
#25 Alyosha Molnar Skyworks Solutions 2
#25 Daniel C. Ralph Cornell University 2
#25 Frank C. Schroeder Caltech 2
#25 Han Seung Lee Samsung 2
#25 Francois Guimbretiere Microsoft 2
#25 Daehwan Cho Cornell University 2

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