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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Summit, NJ ranks #1,024 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 123 patents from 60 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Summit, NJ include AT&T, IBM, Qualcomm. That works out to 5.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 60 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Divesh Srivastava AT&T 7
2 Zhen Wen IBM 6
3 Arnab Das Qualcomm 5
3 Catherine Lin-Hendel Unknown 5
3 Thomas L. Marzetta Alcatel Lucent 5
3 Ronald Kim Merck 5
3 Jeonghoon Sun Amgen 5
#8 Nicholas Duffield AT&T 4
#8 Rajesh Chopra Bristol-Myers Squibb 4
#8 Gary W. Elko Mh Acoustics 4
#8 Michael D. Scheer Emc 4
#12 Zhengxiang Ma Futurewei Technologies 3
#12 Peter R. Kinget Columbia University 3
#12 Rudolf H. Hendel Periodic Structures 3
#12 Yuchuan Gong Abb Vie 3
#12 Guangli Hu Corning Incorporated 3
#17 Petr Vachal Merck 2
#17 Susan E. Thomson Cisco 2
#17 Hans-Joachim L. Gossmann Applied Materials 2
#17 David Knaack Warsaw Orthopedic 2
#17 Maria Pasquale 2
#17 Dennis Naksen Ingersoll-Rand 2
#17 Nathan Boersen Signal Pharmaceuticals 2
#17 Simon D. Byers AT&T 2
#17 Valerie Torres AT&T 2
#17 Thaddeus Julius Kowalski AT&T 2
#27 Terrence Sumner White 1
#27 Kenneth Foon University Of Kentucky 1
#27 Alexander White Goodrich 1
#27 Brian A. Leuthner Edge Therapeutics 1
#27 Bernard Duetsch A.K. Stamping Company 1
#27 Bo Han HP 1
#27 Jack J. Funda American Express 1
#27 Richard Kennett Linde Gmbh 1
#27 Shreeharsh Kelkar Avaya 1
#27 Vinay Anant Vaishampayan AT&T 1
#27 Bo-Chao Cheng Open Invention Network Llc Nc 1
#27 Cecilia M. Procopiuc AT&T 1
#27 Vincent Goffin AT&T 1
#27 Agustin Izquierdo Basf Se 1
#27 David Ingerman The Dun & Bradstreet 1
#27 Jefferson Isibor Atlantic Health System 1
#27 Patrick Griffith Jbf Interlude 2009 1
#27 Mark Brenner Ods Technologies 1
#27 Eric N. Silverberg Alza 1
#27 Jonathan T. Betz Google 1
#27 Milana Maletic Merck 1
#27 Robert J. Gartside Stone & Webster Engineering 1
#27 Priya Dayananth Merck 1
#27 Alex Derchak Adidas Ag 1

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