Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Princeton, NJ ranks #181 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 662 patents from 309 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Princeton, NJ include Wuhan Kaidi Engineering Technology Research Institute Co., Siemens Healthcare Limited, Interdigital Technology. That works out to 21.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 309 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Yanfeng Zhang Wuhan Kaidi Engineering Technology Research Institute Co. 21
2 Dorin Comaniciu Siemens Healthcare Limited 18
3 Jin Wang Interdigital Technology 16
#4 Chonggang Wang Convida Wireless 14
#5 Andrew E. Youtz Verizon 11
#6 Jintao Zhang Byd Company Limited 10
#6 Bogdan Georgescu Siemens Healthcare Limited 10
#8 Songzhou Hu Vitaworks Ip 9
#8 Guofei Jiang Nec 9
#10 Graham Davis Abbott 8
#11 Robert K. Prud'homme Princeton University 7
#11 Xiaoan Lu Thomson Licensing 7
#11 Vivek Singh Siemens Healthcare Limited 7
#14 Stephen Y. Chou Essenlix 6
#14 Shaoliang Zhang Nec 6
#14 Ilhan A. Aksay Princeton University 6
#17 Israel Amir Centrak 5
#17 Bharat I. Chaudhary Dow Global Technologies 5
#17 Michael S. Weaver Comcast 5
#17 Pierre Emeric Abbott 5
#17 Joseph A. Kozlowski Merck 5
#17 Marco Gruteser Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey 5
#17 Yue-Kai Huang Nec 5
#17 Peter Eisenberger ExxonMobil 5
#17 Mung Chiang Empire Technology Development 5
#17 Fatih Yaman Nec 5
#17 Barun Maskara Cardiac Pacemakers 5
#28 Humayra Begum Ali Cytosorbents 4
#28 Michal Sofka Cisco 4
#28 Silvina Garcia Rubio Helsinn Healthcare Sa 4
#28 Nanjun Qian Verizon 4
#28 Jessica Frie Merck 4
#28 Tobias J. Fuetterer Johnson & Johnson 4
#28 John S. Tokarski Bristol-Myers Squibb 4
#28 Hon-Wah Man Bristol-Myers Squibb 4
#28 Allen Zhang Royal Bank Of Canada 4
#28 Zheng Shi Fih (Hong Kong) Limited 4
#28 Kevin Kwong-Tai Chung Amerasia International Technology 4
#28 Haiyong Hugh Huang Purdue Pharma 4
#28 Talal T. Al-Housseiny Unknown 4
#28 Thomas D. Golobish Cytosorbents 4
#42 Bobby S. Varma Princeton Identity 3
#42 Jason W. Fleischer Princeton University 3
#42 Sibel Korkut Princeton University 3
#42 Mihailo Zilovic Cisco 3
#42 Lawrence Adam Wolf Arable Labs 3
#42 Hua Wan Lifecell 3
#42 Siva Sandeep Dhandu Verizon 3
#42 Junghwan Rhee Nec 3
#42 Dinkar N. Bhat Arris Enterprises 3

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