Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Poughkeepsie, NY ranks #159 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 848 patents from 269 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Poughkeepsie, NY include IBM, Institute Of Microelectronics Of The Chinese Academy Of Sciences, Yale University. That works out to 26.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 269 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jonathan D. Bradbury IBM 28
2 Maharaj Mukherjee IBM 22
3 Charles L. Arvin IBM 20
#4 Matthias Klein IBM 19
#5 Peter G. Sutton IBM 17
#5 Dale E. Blue IBM 17
#7 Yuk L. Chan IBM 15
#8 Kamal K. Sikka IBM 14
#9 Harry M. Yudenfriend IBM 12
#9 Fadi Y. Busaba IBM 12
#9 Budy D. Notohardjono IBM 12
#12 Tynan J. Garrett IBM 11
#12 Huilong Zhu Institute Of Microelectronics Of The Chinese Academy Of Sciences 11
#12 Patricia G. Driever IBM 11
#12 Emily R. Kinser IBM 11
#16 Rasit Onur Topaloglu IBM 10
#16 Dale F. Riedy IBM 10
#18 Robert K. Mullady IBM 9
#18 Peter D. Driever IBM 9
#18 Ali Y. Duale IBM 9
#18 Roy R. Yu Yale University 9
#22 Jonathan T. Hsieh IBM 8
#22 Suraush Khambati IBM 8
#24 Thomas Weiss Authentic Vision Gmbh 7
#24 Michael James Becht IBM 7
#24 Michael J. Fisher IBM 7
#24 Robert J. Miller The Boeing 7
#28 John G. Torok IBM 6
#28 Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr. IBM 6
#28 Louis P. Gomes IBM 6
#28 George P. Kuch IBM 6
#28 Ryan Elsasser IBM 6
#28 Vivek Salve IBM 6
#28 Yunli Tang IBM 6
#28 Charles W. Gainey, Jr. IBM 6
#28 Steven R. Carlough IBM 6
#28 Prabjit Singh IBM 6
#38 Shawn Canfield IBM 5
#38 David D. Cadigan IBM 5
#38 Brian W. Quinlan IBM 5
#38 Jeffrey A. Zitz IBM 5
#38 Dustin W. Demetriou IBM 5
#38 Mahmoud Amin IBM 5
#38 Deanna Postles Dunn Berger IBM 5
#38 Shawn Kollesar IBM 5
#38 Michael A. Sperling IBM 5
#38 Diane Marie Stamboni IBM 5
#38 Andrew Tae Kim IBM 5
#49 Kafai Lai IBM 4
#49 Byron S. Green IBM 4

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