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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Schenectady, NY ranks #141 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 837 patents from 132 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Schenectady, NY include IBM, GE, Globalfoundries. That works out to 12.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 132 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kangguo Cheng IBM 370
2 Tenko Yamashita IBM 92
3 Veeraraghavan S. Basker IBM 86
#4 Zuoguang Liu IBM 28
#5 Robert Dean King GE 14
#6 Son V. Nguyen IBM 13
#7 Takeshi Nogami IBM 12
#8 Prasanna Khare 7
#9 Mark Edward Cardinal GE 6
#9 James D. Brooks GE 6
#11 Catherine B. Labelle Globalfoundries 5
#11 Christopher Judson Hardy GE 5
#11 Wei Wang IBM 5
#14 Aaron Judy Couture GE 4
#14 Fredrick Levi Fuller GE 4
#14 Benjamin Alber Mancuso GE 4
#14 Raghavasimhan Sreenivasan IBM 4
#14 Hongyi Zhou GE 4
#14 Ruifang Wang Zenith Epigenetics 4
#14 Christopher Fred Keimel GE 4
#21 Surinder Prabhjot Singh GE 3
#21 James Maccubbin GE 3
#21 Sean Cornelius O'Meara GE 3
#21 Naresh Sundaram Iyer GE 3
#21 Florencio Garcia GE 3
#21 Curtis Maurice Hebert GE 3
#21 Andrew Philip Shapiro GE 3
#21 Brion Daryl Sarachan GE 3
#21 Xiaoying Bao ExxonMobil 3
#21 Shankar Sivaramakrishnan GE 3
#21 Thomas Robert Reid GE 3
#21 Eric H. Ledet Revivo Medical 3
#21 Peter Katlic GE 3
#21 Shyam Sivaramakrishnan GE 3
#21 Piero Patrone Bonissone GE 3
#36 Hongyun Cottle Tokyo Electron Limited 2
#36 John Raymond Krahn GE 2
#36 Minesh Ashok Shah GE 2
#36 Luca Marinelli GE 2
#36 Robert Adolph Ackermann GE 2
#36 Emily Shu GE 2
#36 Renato FRIELLO The Paper Battery 2
#36 Pradeep Chandra Babu Salapakkam GE 2
#36 Robert Scott Duthie GE 2
#36 Xufeng Sun Shenyang Sinochem Agrochemicals R&D Co. 2
#36 Steven Sebastian Burdgick GE 2
#36 Ranjan Kumar Gupta GE 2
#36 Evangelos Trifon Laskaris GE 2
#36 Steven Raedy Utility Systems Technologies 2
#36 Waseem Ibrahim Faidi GE 2

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