Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cortland, NY ranks #6,098 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 16 patents from 9 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cortland, NY include IBM, Borgwarner, Pass & Seymour. That works out to 0.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–9 of 9 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Shang Q. Guo IBM 6
2 Chad McCloy Borgwarner 3
3 Joyce Hutchings 1
3 Brian Mueller Pass & Seymour 1
3 Jerry Rushak Incodema3D 1
3 Franklin R. Smith Borgwarner 1
3 Dhruv Agarwal True Fabrications 1
3 James A. Bair Danaher 1
3 Stephen Payne Transact Technologies Incorporated 1

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