Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Schenectady, NY ranks #248 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 561 patents from 115 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Schenectady, NY include IBM, GE, Saint-Gobain Abrasives. That works out to 8.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 115 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kangguo Cheng IBM 270
2 Veeraraghavan S. Basker IBM 33
3 Tenko Yamashita IBM 26
#4 Son V. Nguyen IBM 17
#5 Subhrajit Roychowdhury GE 9
#5 Zuoguang Liu IBM 9
#7 James D. Brooks GE 7
#8 Robert Dean King GE 6
#9 Di Pan GE 5
#9 Ardasheir Rahman IBM 5
#9 Takeshi Nogami IBM 5
#12 Ananda Barua GE 4
#12 Justin John Gambone, JR. GE 4
#12 Krishan Lal Luthra GE 4
#12 Darrell K. Everts Saint-Gobain Abrasives 4
#12 Paul Edward Cuddihy GE 4
#12 Shyam Sivaramakrishnan GE 4
#18 Mark L. Lenhardt Globalfoundries 3
#18 Staci Jane Elaan Valve 3
#18 William Zang GE 3
#18 Pablo Nieves IBM 3
#18 Naresh Sundaram Iyer GE 3
#18 Jessica P. Striss Globalfoundries 3
#18 Christopher Judson Hardy GE 3
#18 Lowell Scott Smith GE 3
#18 Hoyoung Kang Tokyo Electron Limited 3
#27 Alex James Norman Distributed Solar Development 2
#27 Aaron Judy Couture GE 2
#27 Ken Ivcar Salas Nobrega GE 2
#27 Andrew Philip Shapiro GE 2
#27 Alexey Vert GE 2
#27 Brian William Manikas GE 2
#27 Sima Didari Applied Materials 2
#27 Sean Cornelius O'Meara GE 2
#27 Nidhishri Tapadia GE 2
#27 Steven Sebastian Burdgick GE 2
#27 Alexander Chen GE 2
#27 Florencio Garcia GE 2
#27 Joshua Paul Webb GE 2
#27 Pradeep Chandra Babu Salapakkam GE 2
#27 Nitish Umang GE 2
#27 Christopher Fred Keimel GE 2
#27 Inchan Hwang Samsung 2
#27 Jonathan S. Dordick Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2
#27 Edwin J. Iwanowicz Bristol-Myers Squibb 2
#27 Nancy Cecelia Stoffel GE 2
#27 Chad Duncan Munkres GE 2
#27 Ranjan Kumar Gupta GE 2
#27 Matthew Meketa Si Group 2
#27 Eric H. Ledet Revivo Medical 2

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