Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Highland, NY ranks #1,090 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 133 patents from 26 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Highland, NY include IBM, Globalfoundries U.S., Usai. That works out to 20.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–26 of 26 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Andrew C. M. Hicks IBM 35
2 Anthony Saporito IBM 17
3 Jacob T. Porter IBM 12
#4 Paul N. Krystek IBM 10
#5 Anthony T. Sofia IBM 9
#6 Steven J. Ahladas IBM 6
#6 Craig R. Walters IBM 6
#8 Daniel V. Rosa IBM 5
#9 Francis R. Krug, Jr. IBM 4
#9 Jesse Peter Surprise IBM 4
#11 Brian James Yavoich IBM 3
#11 Sharon T. Spaulding IBM 3
#11 Pawel Owczarczyk IBM 3
#14 Vesselina K. Papazova IBM 2
#14 Robert A. Groves IBM 2
#14 Megan Capobianco IBM 2
#17 Steven Turk 1
#17 Ramamohan Chennamsetty IBM 1
#17 Ian Melville Globalfoundries U.S. 1
#17 Mario Borelli IBM 1
#17 Jaclyn Behnke Usai 1
#17 James Edward Tersigni IBM 1
#17 Mark C. Wallen IBM 1
#17 Stefania Axo IBM 1
#17 Evren O. Baran IBM 1
#17 Richard Timperio John Bean Technologies 1

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