Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Ithaca, NY ranks #390 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 331 patents from 200 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ithaca, NY include Thomson Licensing, Novomer, Corning Incorporated. That works out to 10.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 200 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Peng Yin Thomson Licensing 34
2 Jay J. Farmer Novomer 7
2 Ljerka Ukrainczyk Corning Incorporated 7
2 Davide Domenico Fortusini Corning Incorporated 7
#5 Leo B. Kriksunov Johnson & Johnson 5
#5 Amit Lal Cornell University 5
#5 Joseph F. Flint Microbios 5
#8 Prantik Mazumder Corning Incorporated 4
#8 Andrew Irwin Calico Cottage 4
#8 Robert Alan Bellman Corning Incorporated 4
#8 Luqiao Liu IBM 4
#12 Harold G. Craighead Cornell Research Foundation 3
#12 Amit Halder Corning Incorporated 3
#12 David Erickson Cornell University 3
#12 Scott A. Miller Kionix 3
#12 John W. Parkins Red Tail Hawk 3
#12 Emmanuel P. Giannelis Cornell University 3
#12 Larry P. Walker Cornell University 3
#12 Matthew Mancuso Keibler-Thompson 3
#12 Daniel C. Ralph Cornell University 3
#12 Ralph L. Obendorf Cornell Research Foundation 3
#12 Stephen K. Brueckner Architecture Technology 3
#12 Robert A. Buhrman Cornell University 3
#12 Christopher J. Pluta Borgwarner 3
#12 David A. Putnam Cornell University 3
#12 Janani Mukundan IBM 3
#27 Kilian Quirin Weinberger Asapp 2
#27 Robert A. Joyce Architecture Technology 2
#27 David Lipson Medtronic 2
#27 Stephane Cedric Corgie Cornell University 2
#27 Matthew P. DeLisa Cornell University 2
#27 Scott G. Adams Kionix 2
#27 Francis J. DiSalvo Cornell Research Foundation 2
#27 Kirk M. Sigel Isolynx 2
#27 Mahmut Faruk Aksit GE 2
#27 Christoph Studer Cornell University 2
#27 Shailesh Upreti 2
#27 Michael Thompson Cornell University 2
#27 Francois Guimbretiere Microsoft 2
#27 Sherwood Kenneth Snyder Wildlife Acoustics 2
#27 Hao Shi Rambus 2
#27 Suhao He Corning Incorporated 2
#27 Yong Lak Joo Cornell University 2
#27 Ved Gund Cornell University 2
#27 Abraham D. Stroock Cornell University 2
#27 Lincoln C. Young Rheonix 2
#27 Alexei A. Gridnev E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 2
#27 Mary Ellen Carollo IBM 2
#27 Arthur Nitkowski Cornell University 2
#27 Ling Qi CNRS 2

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