Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Ithaca, NY ranks #360 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 356 patents from 226 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ithaca, NY include Thomson Licensing, Binoptics, Novomer. That works out to 11.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 226 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Peng Yin Thomson Licensing 27
2 Cristian Stagarescu Binoptics 7
3 Jay J. Farmer Novomer 6
3 Robert Alan Bellman Corning Incorporated 6
3 Leo B. Kriksunov Johnson & Johnson 6
3 Robert A. Joyce Architecture Technology 6
#7 Prantik Mazumder Corning Incorporated 5
#7 Amit Lal Cornell University 5
#7 Harold G. Craighead Cornell Research Foundation 5
#7 Ljerka Ukrainczyk Corning Incorporated 5
#7 Ulrich Wiesner Cornell University 5
#12 Akinleye C. Alabi Caltech 4
#12 Christoph Studer Cornell University 4
#14 Mahmut Faruk Aksit GE 3
#14 Sunil Bhave Cornell University 3
#14 Davide Domenico Fortusini Corning Incorporated 3
#14 Hector D. Abruna Cornell University 3
#14 Archit Lal Corning Incorporated 3
#14 Anita Govindjee IBM 3
#14 Janani Mukundan IBM 3
#14 Roger T. Simpson Borgwarner 3
#14 Hening Lin Cornell University 3
#14 Emmanuel P. Giannelis Cornell University 3
#24 James R. McKone Caltech 2
#24 Robert E. Thorne Mitegen 2
#24 Stephen K. Brueckner Architecture Technology 2
#24 Jaime Cardenas Cornell University 2
#24 John Wallace Autodesk 2
#24 Daniel C. Ralph Cornell University 2
#24 Yong Lak Joo Cornell University 2
#24 Juan Hinestroza Cornell University 2
#24 Leilei Xiao Cornell University 2
#24 Serhan Ardanuc Cornell University 2
#24 Hyunyoung Song Autodesk 2
#24 John T. Lis Cornell University 2
#24 Julia A. Baker Architecture Technology 2
#24 Christopher K. Ober Cornell Research Foundation 2
#24 Sean Simmons Empire Brushes 2
#24 Brady O'Hanlon The Mitre 2
#24 Brian J. Smith Cornell University 2
#24 Susan Lee Schiefelbein Corning Incorporated 2
#24 Christopher A. Simoneau Saudi Aramco Technologies 2
#24 Debdeep Jena Cornell University 2
#24 Damian Helbling Cornell University 2
#24 Sandip Tiwari IBM 2
#24 Luqiao Liu IBM 2
#24 Robert E. LaPointe Novomer 2
#24 Keith Feldt Borgwarner 2
#24 Robert A. Buhrman Cornell University 2
#24 Chris A. Simoneau Novomer 2

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