Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Schenectady, NY ranks #162 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 704 patents from 133 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Schenectady, NY include IBM, GE, Pernix Ireland Pain Limited. That works out to 10.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 133 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kangguo Cheng IBM 280
2 Tenko Yamashita IBM 83
3 Veeraraghavan S. Basker IBM 60
#4 Zuoguang Liu IBM 21
#5 Son V. Nguyen IBM 14
#6 Raghavasimhan Sreenivasan IBM 13
#7 Takeshi Nogami IBM 9
#7 Robert Dean King GE 9
#9 Christopher M. Rubino Pernix Ireland Pain Limited 8
#10 Thomas James Batzinger GE 7
#11 Prasanna Khare 6
#11 Aaron Judy Couture GE 6
#13 Christopher Judson Hardy GE 5
#13 Bastiaan Arie Korevaar First Solar 5
#13 Vivek Venugopal Badami GE 5
#16 Nestor Hernandez Sanchez GE 4
#16 Seyfettin Can Gulen GE 4
#16 Evangelos Trifon Laskaris GE 4
#16 Hongyi Zhou GE 4
#16 Steven Sebastian Burdgick GE 4
#16 Zewu Chen X-Ray Optical Systems 4
#22 Florencio Garcia GE 3
#22 Robert Scott Duthie GE 3
#22 John Thomas Leman GE 3
#22 Louisa Ruth Carr University Of Washington Through Its Center For Commercialization 3
#22 Ranjan Kumar Gupta GE 3
#22 Jon Albert Dieringer GE 3
#28 James D. Brooks GE 2
#28 Hoyoung Kang Tokyo Electron Limited 2
#28 Polivina Jolicia F. Gauuan Duke University 2
#28 Ching-Yeu Wei GE 2
#28 Syed Mahmood Neuralstem 2
#28 Darrell K. Everts Saint-Gobain Abrasives 2
#28 William David Smith, II GE 2
#28 Surinder Prabhjot Singh GE 2
#28 Christopher James Chuah GE 2
#28 Joseph James Salvo GE 2
#28 Joel Donnell Holt GE 2
#28 Krishan Lal Luthra GE 2
#28 Christopher Fred Keimel GE 2
#28 Anne Lindsay Hall GE 2
#28 John Brian Hewgley GE 2
#28 Kihwang Son Globalfoundries 2
#28 Min Hu Albany Molecular Research 2
#28 Thomas Robert Reid GE 2
#28 Nestor Hernandez Sanchez 2
#28 Kim James Clark GE 2
#28 Justin John Gambone, JR. GE 2
#28 Waseem Ibrahim Faidi GE 2
#28 Catherine B. Labelle Globalfoundries 2

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