Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Schenectady, NY ranks #153 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 773 patents from 124 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Schenectady, NY include IBM, GE, Globalfoundries. That works out to 11.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 124 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kangguo Cheng IBM 338
2 Tenko Yamashita IBM 101
3 Veeraraghavan S. Basker IBM 73
#4 Zuoguang Liu IBM 43
#5 Son V. Nguyen IBM 9
#6 Robert Dean King GE 8
#7 Prasanna Khare 7
#8 Thomas James Batzinger GE 5
#8 Wei Wang IBM 5
#8 Joshua Paul Webb GE 5
#11 Mark Edward Cardinal GE 4
#11 Robert Scott Duthie GE 4
#11 Christopher Fred Keimel GE 4
#11 Steven Sebastian Burdgick GE 4
#11 Hongyi Zhou GE 4
#11 Takeshi Nogami IBM 4
#17 Catherine B. Labelle Globalfoundries 3
#17 Ameet Shridhar Deshpande GE 3
#17 Rebecca Kathryn Jaiven GE 3
#17 Florencio Garcia GE 3
#17 Aaron Judy Couture GE 3
#17 Brion Daryl Sarachan GE 3
#17 Douglas Austin GE 3
#17 James D. Brooks GE 3
#17 Erhan Bas GE 3
#17 Son Nguyen Xerox 3
#27 Vitali Victor Lissianski GE 2
#27 Ying Fan GE 2
#27 Shyam Sivaramakrishnan GE 2
#27 Lakshmi Sireesha Kaanumalle GE 2
#27 Piero Patrone Bonissone GE 2
#27 Bastiaan Arie Korevaar First Solar 2
#27 Steve Andrew Correll Ioxus 2
#27 Bennett Steven Sheron GE 2
#27 Andrew Batton Witney GE 2
#27 Minesh Ashok Shah GE 2
#27 Inchan Hwang Samsung 2
#27 Naresh Sundaram Iyer GE 2
#27 Dongfei Pei Globalfoundries 2
#27 Nicholas Edward Antolino GE 2
#27 William David Smith, II GE 2
#27 Krishan Lal Luthra GE 2
#27 Ruifang Wang Zenith Epigenetics 2
#27 Xufeng Sun Shenyang Sinochem Agrochemicals R&D Co. 2
#27 Eric H. Ledet Revivo Medical 2
#27 Gautam Chatterji GE 2
#27 Shankar Sivaramakrishnan GE 2
#27 Timothy Toepfer GE 2
#27 Kenneth Lee Fisher GE 2
#27 Thomas Earnest Moldenhauer GE 2

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