Top Inventors in Buffalo, NY | Patent Leaderboard

Buffalo, NY ranks #1,256 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,678 patents from 839 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Buffalo, NY include Qualcomm, Baxter International, Cook Medical Technologies. That works out to 9.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 839 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Jack C. Kitchens	Qualcomm	68
2	Tuan Bui	Baxter International	49
3	Richard W. Ducharme	Cook Medical Technologies	45
#4	John S. Cullen	Multiform Desiccants	39
#5	David L. Schwartz	Ameriwood Industries	38
#6	Frank E. Lowther	Atlantic Richfield	37
#7	Jerome J. Schentag	Therasyn Sensors	26
#8	James P. Meagher	Emerson Electric	24
#9	John A. Carlin	Parker-Hannifin	23
#9	Belma Demirel	Rentech	23
#9	Mark Evans Brighton	Amazon	23
#12	Xiang Ling	—	21
#13	David M. Spillman	Wilson Greatbatch	20
#13	James R. Dray	Praxair Technology	20
#13	Chih-Chau L. Kuan	Neopath	20
#16	John Albert Olenick	Corning Incorporated	19
#17	Lee J. Rosen	Praxair Technology	18
#17	Arup Bhattacharya	Gryphon Online Safety	18
#19	Robert Berghash	Brimms	17
#19	Richard M. Hollister	—	17
#19	Mark J. Roy	Greatbatch	17
#22	Terrence G. Vargo	Integument Technologies	16
#22	David E. Bradley	—	16
#22	Frederick Sachs	SUNY Research Foundation	16
#25	Brian R. Kromer	Praxair Technology	15
#25	Robert B. Skerker	Robinson Knife Manufacturing Co.	15
#25	Michael Fred Novits	Pennwalt	15
#28	Thomas E. Gerber	Ingersoll-Rand	14
#28	Feng Hu	NVIDIA	14
#28	Joseph M. Rait	—	14
#28	William S. Derwin	Occidental Chemical	14
#32	Martin R. Kasprzyk	Gas Research Institute	13
#32	Jeffrey D. Jordan	NASA	13
#32	Achint Oommen Thomas	Indiavidual Learning Limited	13
#35	Merry Riehm-Constantino	Praxair Technology	12
#35	Vithal Revankar	Memc Electronic Materials	12
#37	Jerry May	Mattel	11
#37	Michael S. Manning	Praxair Technology	11
#37	Arvind Goel	Advanced Refractory Technologies	11
#37	Chester V. Swiatek	Ingersoll-Rand	11
#41	John Subjeck	Health Research	10
#41	Yaliang Li	Tencent America	10
#41	Simon Mbua Ngale Efange	University of Minnesota	10
#41	Kathleen Ritter Olenick	Corning Incorporated	10
#41	Roger N. Weinar	—	10
#41	Edward J. Luber, Jr.	Westwood Pharmaceuticals	10
#41	Albert H. Titus	—	10
#41	David W. Dyer	Nationwide Children'S Hospital	10
#41	Matthew R. Warren	Mahle International Gmbh	10
#50	Harold John Kieta	—	9

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