Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Corning, NY ranks #304 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 9,946 patents from 1,196 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Corning, NY include Corning Incorporated, Karl Storz Gmbh & Co. Kg, Corning Optical Communications. That works out to 942.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,196 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Dana Craig Bookbinder Corning Incorporated 340
2 Charlene Marie Smith Corning Incorporated 190
3 Michael Sauer Karl Storz Gmbh & Co. Kg 171
#4 Kishor Purushottam Gadkaree Corning Incorporated 158
#5 Daniel Aloysius Nolan Corning Incorporated 151
#6 Matthew John Dejneka Corning Incorporated 147
#7 Scott Robertson Bickham Corning Incorporated 126
#8 Adam James Ellison Corning Incorporated 122
#9 Stephan Lvovich Logunov Corning Incorporated 120
#10 Bruce Gardiner Aitken Corning Incorporated 115
#11 Garrett Andrew Piech Corning Incorporated 80
#12 James Joseph Price Corning Incorporated 75
#13 Sinue Gomez Corning Incorporated 70
#14 Steven Bruce Dawes Corning Incorporated 69
#15 Timothy James Kiczenski Corning Incorporated 66
#16 Gregory Albert Merkel Corning Incorporated 65
#17 Alexander Mikhailovich Streltsov Corning Incorporated 63
#18 Jaymin Amin Corning Incorporated 60
#19 Edward John Fewkes Corning Incorporated 57
#20 Patrick David Tepesch Corning Incorporated 56
#20 Douglas Llewellyn Butler Corning Optical Communications 56
#22 Raja R. Wusirika Corning Incorporated 51
#23 Peter Joseph Lezzi Corning Incorporated 49
#24 Wendell Porter Weeks Corning Incorporated 48
#24 Heather Debra Boek Corning Incorporated 48
#26 Robert Adam Modavis Corning Incorporated 47
#27 Gee-Kung Chang University of California 45
#27 Lisa Anne Moore Corning Incorporated 45
#27 Kai Jarosch Velocys 45
#30 Douglas Clippinger Allan Corning Incorporated 44
#30 Sriram Iyer Quantumscape 44
#32 Joseph Francis Schroeder, III Corning Incorporated 43
#32 Mallanagouda Dyamanagouda Patil Corning Incorporated 43
#34 Robert Stephen Wagner Corning Incorporated 42
#34 James Andrew West Corning Incorporated 42
#36 David Lee Weidman Corning Incorporated 40
#36 Richard Michael Fiacco Corning Incorporated 40
#36 Naiyue Zhou Corning Incorporated 40
#39 Kenneth Chyung Corning Glass Works 39
#39 Steven Bolaji Ogunwumi Corning Incorporated 39
#41 Jeffrey Todd Kohli Corning Incorporated 38
#41 Kelvin Nguyen Corning Incorporated 38
#41 Irwin M. Lachman Corning Incorporated 38
#44 Ji Wang Corning Incorporated 36
#44 Luis Alberto Zenteno Corning Incorporated 36
#44 Seldon David Benjamin Halliburton Energy Services 36
#44 Mathieu Hubert Aktiebolaget Skf 36
#48 James Robert Matthews Corning Incorporated 35
#48 Peter Gerard Wigley Corning Incorporated 35
#48 James William Brown Corning Incorporated 35

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