Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Ithaca, NY ranks #367 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 8,607 patents from 1,653 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Ithaca, NY include Thomson Licensing, Johnson & Johnson, Corning Incorporated. That works out to 268.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,653 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Peng Yin Thomson Licensing 364
2 Leo B. Kriksunov Johnson & Johnson 95
3 Ljerka Ukrainczyk Corning Incorporated 85
3 Harold G. Craighead Cornell Research Foundation 85
#5 Amit Lal Cornell University 82
#6 Roger T. Simpson Borgwarner 77
#7 Robert Alan Bellman Corning Incorporated 75
#8 Jay J. Farmer Novomer 73
#9 Prantik Mazumder Corning Incorporated 69
#10 Robert A. Joyce Architecture Technology 65
#11 Seiya Ohta Canon 61
#12 Mahmut Faruk Aksit GE 57
#13 Thomas R. Welter Eastman Kodak 54
#14 Ulrich Wiesner Cornell University 52
#15 Christopher K. Ober Cornell Research Foundation 51
#15 Alyosha Molnar Skyworks Solutions 51
#17 Sandip Tiwari IBM 47
#17 Alexei A. Gridnev E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 47
#19 Dongyan Wang Midea Group Co. 46
#19 David Lipson Medtronic 46
#21 Lincoln C. Young Rheonix 45
#21 Anne M. LaPointe Symyx Technologies 45
#21 Arthur F. Kuckes Vector Magnetics 45
#24 Che-Yu Li High Connection Density 44
#24 Steven A. Supron Pitney Bowes 44
#26 Yong Lak Joo Cornell University 38
#27 James Gregory Couillard Corning Incorporated 37
#27 Christopher P. Yakymyshyn GE 37
#29 Chunhui Xu Geron 36
#29 Emmanuel P. Giannelis Cornell University 36
#31 Kirk M. Sigel Isolynx 35
#31 Nikolai M. Krivitski Transonic Systems 35
#31 Scott G. Adams Kionix 35
#34 Chih-Chang Chu Cornell Research Foundation 34
#34 Aaron Lewis Nanoptics, Incorporated 34
#36 Davide Domenico Fortusini Corning Incorporated 33
#37 James E. Moon Kionix 31
#38 Lidija Sekaric IBM 30
#38 Timothy J. Ledvina Borg-Warner Automotive 30
#40 Cristian Stagarescu Binoptics 29
#40 Gregory J. Galvin Kionix 29
#42 Gary R. Schultz Eaton 28
#43 Lawrence Bonassar Cornell University 27
#43 Susan Lee Schiefelbein Corning Incorporated 27
#43 Minglin Ma MIT 27
#43 Scott Aloisio Architecture Technology 27
#43 Matthew P. DeLisa Cornell University 27
#48 John W. Parkins Red Tail Hawk 26
#48 Donald W. Henderson IBM 26
#50 Hector D. Abruna Cornell University 25

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