Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Ithaca, NY ranks #333 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 423 patents from 261 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ithaca, NY include Thomson Licensing, Johnson & Johnson, Corning Incorporated. That works out to 13.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 261 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Peng Yin Thomson Licensing 22
2 Leo B. Kriksunov Johnson & Johnson 12
3 Ljerka Ukrainczyk Corning Incorporated 9
3 Robert Alan Bellman Corning Incorporated 9
#5 Prantik Mazumder Corning Incorporated 8
#6 Yong Lak Joo Cornell University 6
#6 Mark Buckler Elucid Bioimaging 6
#8 Hector D. Abruna Cornell University 5
#8 Jon Sweat Duster Radiawave Technologies Co. 5
#8 Robert A. Joyce Architecture Technology 5
#11 Matthew P. DeLisa Cornell University 4
#11 Lynden A. Archer Cornell University 4
#11 Lincoln C. Young Rheonix 4
#11 Jay J. Farmer Novomer 4
#15 Daehwan Cho Cornell University 3
#15 Hsiao-Dong Chiang Bigwood Technology 3
#15 Huili Grace Xing Cornell University 3
#15 Nithin Michael Broadcom 3
#15 Anita Govindjee IBM 3
#15 Saien Xie Center For Technology Licensing Cornell University 3
#15 Hengky Chandrahalim US Air Force 3
#15 Amit Lal Cornell University 3
#15 Alexandra Lai Ching Kao Andrews Mitchell Corning Incorporated 3
#15 Ulrich Wiesner Cornell University 3
#15 Olus Naili Boratav Corning Incorporated 3
#15 Kwame Amponsah Xallent 3
#15 Yuguang Gao Samsung 3
#15 Prakash Chandra Panda Corning Incorporated 3
#15 Ruisheng Wang Cornell University 3
#15 David Posada-Pineda Corning Incorporated 3
#15 Richard A. Cerione Cornell University 3
#32 Catherine M. King Welch Allyn 2
#32 Jintu Fan Cornell University 2
#32 Mahmut Faruk Aksit GE 2
#32 Justin Wilson Cornell University 2
#32 Joseph Sirianni Architecture Technology 2
#32 Christoph Studer Cornell University 2
#32 SM Islam Cornell University 2
#32 Ruonan Han MIT 2
#32 Jeonghyun Hwang Globalfoundries U.S. 2
#32 Huaizhe Yu WARF 2
#32 Steve Supron Maidbot 2
#32 Scott Aloisio Architecture Technology 2
#32 Kirk M. Sigel Isolynx 2
#32 Yingchao Yu Cornell University 2
#32 Peter McMahon Qc Ware 2
#32 Steven A. Supron Pitney Bowes 2
#32 Hao Shi Rambus 2
#32 Mingyu He Cornell University 2
#32 Ao Tang Broadcom 2

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