Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Rochester, NY ranks #201 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 667 patents from 406 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Rochester, NY include Eastman Kodak, Xerox, Kyocera Document Solutions. That works out to 3.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 406 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ronald S. Cok Eastman Kodak 21
2 Erwin Ruiz Xerox 9
3 Javier A. Morales Kyocera Document Solutions 8
3 Timothy J. Wojcik Carestream Health 8
3 James R. King Emc Ip Holding Company 8
#6 Mary D. Swift IBM 7
#6 David A. Mantell Xerox 7
#6 Rachel Lynn Tanchak Xerox 7
#9 David Kessler Eastman Kodak 6
#9 Weize Xu Eastman Kodak 6
#9 Chieh-Min Cheng Xerox 6
#9 Alexander C. Loui Eastman Kodak 6
#9 Satish G. Kandlikar Rochester Institute Of Technology 6
#9 Jordan Frank Xerox 6
#15 Victor C. Wong Carestream Health 5
#15 Paul M. Fromm Xerox 5
#15 Sadesh H. Sookraj Novomer 5
#18 Samuel Richard Carestream Health 4
#18 Allan F. Sowinski Eastman Kodak 4
#18 Jonathan D. Levine Xerox 4
#18 Yonglin Xie Eastman Kodak 4
#18 Jeffrey W. Mock Crosman 4
#18 Todd R. Griffin Eastman Kodak 4
#18 Sanja Pstrocki-Porras Xerox 4
#18 Mark E. Irving Eastman Kodak 4
#18 Kathirgamasundaram Sooriakumar Ford 4
#18 Douglas E. Bugner Eastman Kodak 4
#28 Ivan Rydkin Carrier 3
#28 Edward N. Chapman Xerox 3
#28 Scott L. Hurwitz Magnum Shielding 3
#28 Daniel M. Bray Xerox 3
#28 Michael Charles Heilemann University Of Rochester 3
#28 Theresa Tubbs Johnson & Johnson 3
#28 Linda Colt Johnson & Johnson 3
#28 Chuanmao Fan Dental Imaging Technologies 3
#28 Saurabh Kataria Conduent Business Services 3
#28 Jose Zvietcovich Zegarra Kodak Alaris 3
#28 Jeffrey W. Drawe Xerox 3
#28 Jeffrey A. Small Synaptics Incorporated 3
#28 Richard A. Campbell Xerox 3
#28 T. Scott Tanner Garlock Pipeline Technologies 3
#28 Thomas F. Wade Conduent Business Services 3
#28 Erik Garcell Kodak Alaris 3
#28 Bruce A. Link Kodak Alaris 3
#28 Luis Martinez-Sobrido University Of Rochester 3
#28 Scott T. MacLaughlin Carestream Health 3
#28 Richard A. Simon Carestream Health 3
#28 Barbara B. Lussier Eastman Kodak 3
#28 David Maxwell Kleinman Eyeon Particle Sciences 3
#28 Carolyn Rae Ellinger Eastman Kodak 3

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