Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Albany, NY ranks #228 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 602 patents from 160 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Albany, NY include IBM, Tokyo Electron Limited, Apollo Intelligent Connectivity (Beijing) Technology Co.. That works out to 6.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 160 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jingyun Zhang IBM 49
2 Michael Rizzolo IBM 39
3 Wenyu Xu IBM 37
#4 Julien Frougier IBM 30
#5 Andrew M. Greene IBM 19
#6 Joshua M. Rubin IBM 17
#7 Kenneth Chun Kuen Cheng IBM 16
#8 Fee Li Lie IBM 15
#9 Raghuveer R. Patlolla IBM 14
#10 Kandabara Tapily Tokyo Electron Limited 12
#11 Nicole Saulnier IBM 9
#11 John R. Sporre IBM 9
#13 Angelique Raley Tokyo Electron Limited 7
#13 Ya Wang Apollo Intelligent Connectivity (Beijing) Technology Co. 7
#13 Yao Yao IBM 7
#13 Stuart A. Sieg IBM 7
#13 Gangadhara Raja Muthinti IBM 7
#13 Karthik Chandrasekaran Nutanix 7
#19 Adra Carr IBM 6
#19 Andrew Metz Tokyo Electron Limited 6
#19 Timothy Mathew Philip IBM 6
#19 Ali Razavieh Globalfoundries U.S. 6
#19 Hao Tang IBM 6
#19 Yi Song IBM 6
#25 Nicolas Wadih Chbat Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 5
#25 Ravi K. Bonam IBM 5
#25 Yusuke Yoshida Nidec 5
#25 Kai-Hung Yu Tokyo Electron Limited 5
#25 Kaoru Maekawa Tokyo Electron Limited 5
#25 David L. O'Meara Tokyo Electron Limited 5
#25 Huimei Zhou IBM 5
#25 Wenxiang Cong Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 5
#33 Pietro Montanini Stmicroelectronics Sa 4
#33 Sergey Voronin Tokyo Electron Limited 4
#33 Feng Wang Transitions Optical 4
#33 Hiroaki Niimi Texas Instruments 4
#33 Du Zhang Tokyo Electron Limited 4
#33 Bassem M. Hamieh IBM 4
#33 Shariq Siddiqui Globalfoundries 4
#33 Jennifer Church IBM 4
#33 Yu-Hao Tsai Tokyo Electron Limited 4
#33 Akiteru Ko Tokyo Electron Limited 4
#43 Gerrit J. Leusink Tokyo Electron Limited 3
#43 Joshua R. Smith MIT 3
#43 Luciana Meli Thompson IBM 3
#43 Subhadeep Kal Tokyo Electron Limited 3
#43 Ghulam Ali Baloch GE 3
#43 Cory Wajda Tokyo Electron Limited 3
#43 Peng Wang Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical Co. 3
#43 Aelan Mosden Tokyo Electron Limited 3

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