Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Ithaca, NY ranks #479 worldwide for total patents filed in 2025, with 260 patents from 151 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ithaca, NY include Thomson Licensing, Corning Incorporated, Cornell University. That works out to 8.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 151 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Peng Yin Thomson Licensing 24
2 Ljerka Ukrainczyk Corning Incorporated 7
3 Ulrich Wiesner Cornell University 6
3 Robert E. Thorne Mitegen 6
#5 Leo B. Kriksunov Johnson & Johnson 5
#5 Prantik Mazumder Corning Incorporated 5
#7 Matthew P. DeLisa Cornell University 4
#7 Thapakorn Jaroentomeechai Cornell University 4
#7 Steven Daryl McCullough Techemet, Lp 4
#7 James Gregory Couillard Corning Incorporated 4
#7 Hao Shi Rambus 4
#12 Yong Lak Joo Cornell University 3
#12 Huaishu Peng Cornell University 3
#12 Sean Simmons Empire Brushes 3
#12 Scott A. Miller Kionix 3
#12 Joshua A. Hinckley Cornell University 3
#12 Alexandra Lai Ching Kao Andrews Mitchell Corning Incorporated 3
#12 Wenshen Li Cornell University 3
#12 Amit Lal Cornell University 3
#12 Kilian Quirin Weinberger Asapp 3
#12 Christopher Van Loon Borgwarner 3
#22 Lawrence Bonassar Cornell University 2
#22 Wolfgang Parz Macom Technology Solutions Holdings 2
#22 David A. Putnam Cornell University 2
#22 Keith Feldt Borgwarner 2
#22 Mohammed Alamer Cornell University 2
#22 Braman Wing Borgwarner 2
#22 Adam J. BISOGNI Cornell University 2
#22 Harvey Tian Cornell University 2
#22 David Erickson Cornell University 2
#22 Itai Cohen Cornell University 2
#22 Abhishek MASAND Microsoft 2
#22 Debdeep Jena Cornell University 2
#22 Sasank Vemulapati Cornell University 2
#22 Adrian Sampson Microsoft 2
#22 Frank Schroeder Boyce Thompson Institute For Plant Research 2
#22 Francois Guimbretiere Microsoft 2
#22 Kazuki Nomoto Sony 2
#22 Felix Wu Nec 2
#22 Kirk M. Sigel Isolynx 2
#22 Darrell G. Schlom Cornell University 2
#22 Harold G. Craighead Cornell Research Foundation 2
#22 Chris Prince Trilliant Networks 2
#22 Huaizhe Yu WARF 2
#22 Anne M. LaPointe Symyx Technologies 2
#22 Adam Bruce Borgwarner 2
#22 Sunwoo Lee Samsung 2
#22 Iwijn De Vlaminck Stanford University 2
#49 Jared Maxson Cornell University 1
#49 Justin Kuo Cornell University 1

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