New York ranks #3 among US states for total patents filed in 2021, with 27,959 patents from 12,766 inventors across 823 cities. On a per-capita basis that is 1.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a standard benchmark for comparing state-level R&D intensity.
Top Cities in New York 2021
| Rank | City | Patents | Inventors |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York, NY | 5,106 | 2,984 |
| #2 | Brooklyn, NY | 1,840 | 1,013 |
| #3 | Poughkeepsie, NY | 848 | 269 |
| #4 | Niskayuna, NY | 748 | 247 |
| #5 | Rochester, NY | 667 | 406 |
| #6 | Yorktown Heights, NY | 636 | 185 |
| #7 | White Plains, NY | 632 | 212 |
| #8 | Clifton Park, NY | 602 | 190 |
| #9 | Albany, NY | 602 | 160 |
| #10 | Schenectady, NY | 561 | 115 |
| #11 | Ithaca, NY | 423 | 261 |
| #12 | Corning, NY | 386 | 168 |
| #13 | Ossining, NY | 346 | 91 |
| #14 | Chappaqua, NY | 289 | 69 |
| #15 | Wappingers Falls, NY | 282 | 95 |
| #16 | Webster, NY | 256 | 105 |
| #17 | Troy, NY | 248 | 74 |
| #18 | Riverside, NY | 241 | 59 |
| #19 | Hopewell Junction, NY | 235 | 81 |
| #20 | Great Neck, NY | 223 | 136 |
| #21 | Syracuse, NY | 194 | 89 |
| #22 | Scarsdale, NY | 192 | 79 |
| #23 | Cohoes, NY | 181 | 25 |
| #24 | Fishkill, NY | 173 | 49 |
| #25 | Pittsford, NY | 173 | 93 |
Top Inventors in New York 2021
| Rank | Inventor | City | Company | Patents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kangguo Cheng | Schenectady | IBM | 270 |
| 2 | Alexander Reznicek | Troy | IBM | 134 |
| 3 | Ruilong Xie | Niskayuna | IBM | 131 |
| #4 | Choonghyun Lee | Rensselaer | IBM | 103 |
| #5 | Juntao Li | Cohoes | IBM | 100 |
| #6 | Takashi Ando | Eastchester | IBM | 95 |
| #7 | Chih-Chao Yang | Glenmont | IBM | 85 |
| #8 | Jonghyun Park | Syosset | LG | 82 |
| #9 | Lawrence A. Clevenger | Saratoga Springs | IBM | 78 |
| #10 | Chen Zhang | Guilderland | Huawei | 63 |
| #11 | Clifford A. Pickover | Yorktown Heights | IBM | 60 |
| #12 | Devendra K. Sadana | Pleasantville | IBM | 58 |
| #13 | Michael K. Gschwind | Chappaqua | IBM | 54 |
| #13 | Chanro Park | Clifton Park | IBM | 54 |
| #15 | Pouya Hashemi | Purchase | IBM | 53 |
| #15 | Herriot Tabuteau | New York | Antecip Bioventures Ii | 53 |
| #17 | Junli Wang | Slingerlands | IBM | 50 |
| #18 | Jingyun Zhang | Albany | IBM | 49 |
| #19 | Michael Bender | Rye Brook | Blackberry Limited | 43 |
| #20 | Bahman Hekmatshoartabari | White Plains | IBM | 42 |
| #21 | Jason T. Wertz | Pleasant Valley | IBM | 41 |
| #21 | Effendi Leobandung | Stormville | IBM | 41 |
| #23 | Michael Rizzolo | Albany | IBM | 39 |
| #23 | Christian Jacobi | West Park | IBM | 39 |
| #25 | Wenyu Xu | Albany | IBM | 37 |