Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Buffalo, NY ranks #1,821 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 70 patents from 50 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Buffalo, NY include Qualcomm, Rentech, Ameriwood Industries. That works out to 0.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 50 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jack C. Kitchens Qualcomm 8
2 Belma Demirel Rentech 3
2 David L. Schwartz Ameriwood Industries 3
#4 Richard W. Ducharme Cook Medical Technologies 2
#4 Andrew A. Yates The Ontario Knife 2
#4 James P. Meagher Emerson Electric 2
#4 Matthew R. Warren Mahle International Gmbh 2
#4 Daniel R. Bednarek 2
#4 Mark J. Roy Greatbatch 2
#4 Stephen Rudin 2
#4 Mark Evans Brighton Amazon 2
#4 Thomas E. Gerber Ingersoll-Rand 2
#13 John Panepinto SUNY Research Foundation 1
#13 George R. Cook Honeywell 1
#13 Stefan Vujcic Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics 1
#13 Nathaniel Eaton Allen 1
#13 John A. Carlin Parker-Hannifin 1
#13 Tuan Bui Baxter International 1
#13 Timothy McClam 1
#13 Reginald A. Holmes 1
#13 Epifanio Alonso 1
#13 Robert Samuels 1
#13 Kevin Matthew Brinkworth 1
#13 Michael P. Latvis, Jr. Enidine 1
#13 Albert H. Titus 1
#13 Achint Oommen Thomas Indiavidual Learning Limited 1
#13 Michael D. Bernhardt Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 1
#13 Allan Bartleywood 1
#13 Andrei Bakin Emory University 1
#13 Souma Chowdhury Mississippi State University 1
#13 Fatima J. Ramadhan 1
#13 Rohan Bansal Georgia Tech Research 1
#13 Joshua J. Yagy Johnson Controls Technology 1
#13 Rachel E. Jackson IBM 1
#13 James R. Dray Praxair Technology 1
#13 George A. Alessi R. R. Donnelley & Sons 1
#13 James V. Nutty Resmed 1
#13 Brian Ruffino 1
#13 Angelo Caico 1
#13 Jerome J. Schentag Therasyn Sensors 1
#13 John Albert Olenick Corning Incorporated 1
#13 Merry Riehm-Constantino Praxair Technology 1
#13 Robert Andrew Stowers GE 1
#13 Margo Block Moulin Mattel 1
#13 STEVEN R. FRASER Cummins Ip 1
#13 James Senneff Itt Manufacturing Enterprises 1
#13 Michael C. Constantinou Taylor Devices 1
#13 Gwendolyn Elaine Simmons Eldridge 1
#13 Carlo Petermann 1
#13 Michael Langberg Caltech 1

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