Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Poughkeepsie, NY ranks #166 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 887 patents from 256 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Poughkeepsie, NY include IBM, Yale University, Institute Of Microelectronics Of The Chinese Academy Of Sciences. That works out to 28.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 256 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Yuk L. Chan IBM 31
2 Jonathan D. Bradbury IBM 28
3 Charles L. Arvin IBM 24
#4 Maharaj Mukherjee IBM 18
#5 Rasit Onur Topaloglu IBM 17
#6 Harry M. Yudenfriend IBM 16
#6 Ali Y. Duale IBM 16
#6 Roy R. Yu Yale University 16
#9 Steven R. Carlough IBM 15
#9 Patrick J. Meaney IBM 15
#9 Matthias Klein IBM 15
#9 Kamal K. Sikka IBM 15
#9 Dale F. Riedy IBM 15
#14 Peter G. Sutton IBM 12
#15 Louis P. Gomes IBM 11
#15 Emily R. Kinser IBM 11
#17 Kafai Lai IBM 10
#17 Charles W. Gainey, Jr. IBM 10
#17 Thomas W. Conti IBM 10
#17 Huilong Zhu Institute Of Microelectronics Of The Chinese Academy Of Sciences 10
#21 Budy D. Notohardjono IBM 9
#21 Aaron Tsai IBM 9
#21 Gary A. Van Huben IBM 9
#24 Brian W. Quinlan IBM 8
#24 Robert C. Wong IBM 8
#24 Fadi Y. Busaba IBM 8
#24 Michael J. Fisher IBM 8
#28 Gregg M. Arquero IBM 7
#28 Shailesh R. Gami IBM 7
#28 Thomas D. Fitzsimmons IBM 7
#28 Thomas Weiss Authentic Vision Gmbh 7
#28 Jane H. Bartik IBM 7
#28 Tin Hang To IBM 7
#28 William J. Lewis Lasko Holdings 7
#35 Deanna Postles Dunn Berger IBM 6
#35 Robert K. Mullady IBM 6
#35 Andrew Tae Kim IBM 6
#35 Diane Marie Stamboni IBM 6
#35 Kavita Sehgal IBM 6
#35 Levi A. Campbell IBM 6
#35 Jeffrey A. Zitz IBM 6
#35 Ryan Elsasser IBM 6
#35 Asmahan Ali IBM 6
#35 Patricia G. Driever IBM 6
#35 Mustafa Y. Mah IBM 6
#46 Roger R. Schmidt IBM 5
#46 Robert E. Simons IBM 5
#46 Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr. IBM 5
#46 Dustin W. Demetriou IBM 5
#46 Michael A. Sperling IBM 5

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