Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Potsdam, NY ranks #2,321 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 51 patents from 30 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Potsdam, NY include IBM, Basf Se, Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates. That works out to 6.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–30 of 30 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Cornelia K. Tsang IBM 8
2 Alexei Karve IBM 7
3 Alan J. Weger IBM 4
#4 Peter A. Gruber IBM 2
#4 Mingjie Zhong Basf Se 2
#4 Frederick M. Carlson Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 2
#4 Sitaraman Krishnan Cornell Research Foundation 2
#4 Shilpa N. Mahatma IBM 2
#9 Artem Melman Clarkson University 1
#9 Peter A. Gruber 1
#9 Piergiovani Marzocca Clarkson University 1
#9 Mikhail Motornov L'Oreal 1
#9 Derek Lok 1
#9 Brian T. Helenbrook Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 1
#9 Gopal S. Pingali IBM 1
#9 Lalitha Ganapatibhotla Clarkson University 1
#9 John Bodeker Savage Hill-Rom Services 1
#9 Pandikumar Swamikrishnan IBM 1
#9 Igor Sokolov Clarkson University 1
#9 Yaoqing Liu Clarkson University 1
#9 Sergiy Minko The Procter & Gamble 1
#9 Igor V. Sevonkaev Umicore Ag & Co. Kg 1
#9 Changxue Wang Basf Se 1
#9 Sheik Ansar Usman Ibrahim Basf Se 1
#9 Maxim Dokukin Clarkson University 1
#9 Robert Lupitskyy The Procter & Gamble 1
#9 David M. Chess IBM 1
#9 Hoi-Wah Derek Lok Ascensia Diabetes Care Holdings Ag 1
#9 Jose R. Brunheroto IBM 1
#9 Jianping Zheng Clarkson University 1

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