Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Princeton, NJ ranks #176 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 773 patents from 362 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Princeton, NJ include Convida Wireless, Comcast, Siemens Healthcare Limited. That works out to 25.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 362 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Chonggang Wang Convida Wireless 29
2 Michael S. Weaver Comcast 14
3 Vivek Singh Siemens Healthcare Limited 13
3 Youngja Park IBM 13
#5 Yanfeng Zhang Wuhan Kaidi Engineering Technology Research Institute Co. 11
#5 Guofei Jiang Nec 11
#5 Andrew E. Youtz Verizon 11
#5 Stephen Y. Chou Essenlix 11
#9 Dorin Comaniciu Siemens Healthcare Limited 10
#9 Bharat I. Chaudhary Dow Global Technologies 10
#11 Bogdan Georgescu Siemens Healthcare Limited 9
#12 Thomas D. Golobish Cytosorbents 8
#13 Jin Wang Interdigital Technology 7
#13 Renqiang Min Nec 7
#13 Ozge Koymen Qualcomm 7
#16 Wenjie Zhao AT&T 6
#16 Shinsuke Fujisawa Nec 6
#16 Jie Xiong Huawei 6
#16 Lingyun Wang Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 6
#16 Xiaoan Lu Thomson Licensing 6
#16 Laurence Du-Thumm Colgate-Palmolive 6
#22 Hon-Wah Man Bristol-Myers Squibb 5
#22 Eric Cosatto AT&T 5
#22 Michal Sofka Cisco 5
#22 Donald Strum Masco Corporation Of Indiana 5
#22 Kangkook Jee Nec 5
#22 Peng Yuan Shanghai Jiao Tong University 5
#22 Tae-Wook Koh Apple 5
#22 Biplob Debnath Nec 5
#22 Yue-Kai Huang Nec 5
#22 Mustafa Arslan Nec 5
#32 Yue Tian Nec 4
#32 John M. Coiro Allentown 4
#32 Gerard Wysocki Princeton University 4
#32 Sonu Arora AMD 4
#32 Nanjun Qian Verizon 4
#32 Jeffrey M. Wu Johnson & Johnson 4
#32 Ming-Fang Huang Nec 4
#32 Joshua D. Rabinowitz Alexza Pharmaceuticals 4
#32 Ming Lei Novartis Ag 4
#32 Joseph A. Kozlowski Merck 4
#32 John Buford Avaya 4
#32 Songzhou Hu Vitaworks Ip 4
#32 Andrés Monroy-Hernández Snap 4
#32 Xiaolan Zeng Edda Technology 4
#32 Dongjin Song Nec 4
#32 James C. Sturm Princeton University 4
#48 Ruifeng Sun Silicon Laboratories 3
#48 Dayong Zhai Turning Point Therapeutics 3
#48 Zheng Shi Fih (Hong Kong) Limited 3

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