Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

State College, PA ranks #759 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 172 patents from 110 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in State College, PA include GE, Broncus Medical, Penn State. That works out to 4.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 110 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael John Hughes GE 8
2 Lav Rai Broncus Medical 5
3 Tak-Sing Wong Penn State 4
3 Joseph L. Rose Fbs 4
3 Xiaozhong XU Tencent America 4
3 Jing Wang University Of South Florida 4
3 Cody J. Borigo Fbs 4
3 James Z. Wang Penn State 4
#9 Shizhuo Yin Penn State 3
#9 Jason David Gibbs Broncus Medical 3
#9 Geoffrey M. Guisewite RTX (Raytheon) 3
#9 David William Whitman Rohm And Haas 3
#9 Robert J. Cole RTX (Raytheon) 3
#9 Michael R. Root Locator Ip 3
#15 Randy Young Penn State 2
#15 Saptarshi Das Penn State 2
#15 Tian-Xian Zhao Abbott 2
#15 Kevin A. Snook Actuated Medical 2
#15 Shanhai GE Ec Power 2
#15 Mark Levatich Novasentis 2
#15 Fang Luo Penn State 2
#15 Michelle Newman Penn State 2
#15 Alessandro Gubbini Sound Technology 2
#15 Don Madden Avigilon Fortress 2
#15 Na Xiong Penn State 2
#15 Joshua A. Robinson Penn State 2
#15 Chunyu Liu Penn State 2
#15 Douglas H. Werner Penn State 2
#15 Edward W. Reutzel Penn State 2
#15 Chao Liu Advanced Semiconductor Engineering 2
#15 James Christopher Taylor Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 2
#15 Min YUAN Silcotek 2
#15 Sumitha George IBM 2
#15 Robert W. Smith Sundstrand 2
#15 Thomas M. Mallison Penn State 2
#36 Lun-Pin Yuan IBM 1
#36 Huihun Jung Penn State 1
#36 Daniel B. Lysak Interim Designs 1
#36 Nicholas D. Holschuh Chevron 1
#36 Shawn W. Brown First Quality Hygienic 1
#36 Jeffrey L. Schiano Penn State 1
#36 Matthew B. Thomas Penn State 1
#36 David J. Musser 1
#36 Douglas A. Weirauch, Jr. Alcoa 1
#36 H. J. Sommer 1
#36 William R. Dreschel Acuson 1
#36 Jacob J. Loverich Kcf Technologies 1
#36 Adam M. Redding Evoqua Water Technologies 1
#36 Ryan S. Clement Actuated Medical 1
#36 Meade Lewis 1

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