Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Schenectady, NY ranks #208 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 683 patents from 134 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Schenectady, NY include IBM, GE, Si Group. That works out to 10.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 134 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kangguo Cheng IBM 332
2 Tenko Yamashita IBM 54
3 Veeraraghavan S. Basker IBM 37
#4 Son V. Nguyen IBM 20
#5 Zuoguang Liu IBM 12
#6 Takeshi Nogami IBM 10
#7 Ananda Barua GE 8
#8 Subhrajit Roychowdhury GE 5
#8 Robert Dean King GE 5
#8 James D. Brooks GE 5
#11 Aaron Judy Couture GE 4
#11 Andrew Philip Shapiro GE 4
#11 Thomas Robert Raber GE 4
#11 Steven Go GE 4
#11 Shyam Sivaramakrishnan GE 4
#16 Cornelius Haase Si Group 3
#16 Chiong Siew Tan GE 3
#16 Hoyoung Kang Tokyo Electron Limited 3
#16 Brian William Manikas GE 3
#16 Di Pan GE 3
#16 Eric H. Ledet Revivo Medical 3
#16 Evangelos Trifon Laskaris GE 3
#16 Justin John Gambone, JR. GE 3
#16 Thomas James Batzinger GE 3
#16 Krishan Lal Luthra GE 3
#16 Vaidhya Nath Venkitanarayanan GE 3
#27 Thomas Stephen Markham GE 2
#27 Jonathan S. Dordick Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2
#27 Ardasheir Rahman IBM 2
#27 Paul G. Ambrose 2
#27 Naresh Sundaram Iyer GE 2
#27 Nicholas Edward Antolino GE 2
#27 Mark Edward Cardinal GE 2
#27 William David Smith, II GE 2
#27 Ruifang Wang Zenith Epigenetics 2
#27 William Andrew Hennessy GE 2
#27 Ameet Shridhar Deshpande GE 2
#27 Steven Sebastian Burdgick GE 2
#27 Haojun Zhang Globalfoundries 2
#27 Lakshmi Sireesha Kaanumalle GE 2
#27 Christopher M. Rubino Pernix Ireland Pain Limited 2
#27 Nancy Cecelia Stoffel GE 2
#27 Veeraraghavan S. Baskar IBM 2
#27 Prashant Madhukar Kulkarni GE 2
#27 Airton Rosa da Silva, Jr. GE 2
#27 Elizabeth Anne MacDonald Teachers Insurance And Annuity Association Of America 2
#27 Wei Wang IBM 2
#27 Shankar Sivaramakrishnan GE 2
#27 Jeremy E. Goren 2
#27 Dean Michael Robinson GE 2

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