Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Elmont, NY ranks #1,232 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,721 patents from 894 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Elmont, NY include Colgate-Palmolive, IBM, Millennium Pharmaceuticals. That works out to 77.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 894 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kiat-Cheong Toh Colgate-Palmolive 121
2 Ching-Yung Lin IBM 53
3 Walter Newman Millennium Pharmaceuticals 51
#4 Gordon E. Sylvester AT&T 47
#5 Peter Sing Unknown 36
#6 David Seidler Concept Workshop Worldwide 34
#7 Yehuda Ari Buchalter Mediamath 29
#8 Adam J. Grodin American Cyanamid 21
#8 Eduard Pinkhasov Vapor Technologies 21
#8 Klony Lieberman Lumio 21
#11 Scott Chapps Merchsource 20
#12 David Juang Grand Overseas 19
#12 Rita Chen Oracle 19
#14 Shane MacGregor Symbol Technologies 18
#15 Lauserpina Caraos Columbia University 17
#16 Juan M. Lopez Leviton Manufacturing Co. 16
#16 Natividad Jose Revlon Consumer Products 16
#18 John M. Webster Holographics 15
#18 Aamer Ali Baig The Western Union 15
#18 Peter Anthony Divone, Sr. Conopco 15
#21 Cham-Ber Huang 14
#21 Friedrich Weinert 14
#23 Ifung Lu Johnson & Johnson 13
#23 Richard Hemsley Nasdaq 13
#23 Morris Reich Radioactive Isolation Consortium 13
#23 David Rosenthal Baxter International 13
#23 David M. Geshwind 13
#23 Lawrence Jung Apdn (B.V.I) 13
#23 Homar Hernandez Bbc International 13
#30 Shankar Joshi Synergy Microwave 12
#30 Bernard R. Gerber Waterfall 12
#30 Abdul Aziz Lee Valley Tools 12
#33 Bruce Goerlich Rentrak 11
#33 Daniel O'Sullivan University of Minnesota 11
#33 Nigel Patrick Brady Canon 11
#36 Geoff Magal 10
#36 Hal C. Clarke Block Drug Company 10
#36 Thomas Dodson Capital One Services 10
#36 Gang Lin Cornell University 10
#36 Herbert Kaufmann Asea Ab 10
#36 Stanislav Borukhoff ExxonMobil 10
#36 John T. Buck Realtime Data 10
#43 Sol Englander Rosco 9
#43 Levaughn Denton Zophonos 9
#43 Robert H. Quint Circon 9
#43 Brahma Singh Emisphere Technologies 9
#43 Eric Zhu Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics 9
#43 Xiaomo Liu S&P Global 9
#43 Neha Joshi Citrix Systems 9
#43 Wen-Hua Hsu Honeywell 9

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