Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Kingston, NY ranks #1,556 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,164 patents from 509 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Kingston, NY include Acushnet, Adp, Basic Line. That works out to 89.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 509 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 John J. Erickson Acushnet 102
2 Serafin Vazquez Adp 57
3 Yaffa Licari Basic Line 46
#4 Simon Furnish Infraredx 37
#4 Richard P. Tarcza IBM 37
#6 Peter Richard Badovinatz IBM 34
#6 Steven C. McIntosh IBM 34
#8 Theodore Richardson Rbw Studio 33
#9 Robert A. Rita IBM 32
#10 Steven N. Goss IBM 31
#11 Chris Karabatsos IBM 27
#12 Peter Orth Schering 26
#12 Peter Schon Mindray Ds Usa 26
#14 Yvonne Lin TSMC 25
#14 Frank G. Bordonaro Cisco 25
#16 Paul F. Bodenweber IBM 24
#17 Pietro Mazzoleni IBM 22
#17 David Derby Adp 22
#17 Hendrik E. Rosier Huck International 22
#20 Ezra Spiro Palantir Technologies 21
#20 Govind Balakrishnan Adobe 21
#22 James D. Rockrohr IBM 19
#23 John B. Gillett IBM 18
#24 Michael Hind IBM 17
#24 Carl H. W. Meyer IBM 17
#24 Simon S. Cohen MIT 17
#24 Alvaro Morales Asana 17
#28 Scott W. Lowe Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 16
#28 Derrick LeRoy Garmire IBM 16
#30 John Melchionne IBM 15
#30 Samuel Jones Palantir Technologies 15
#30 Randall W. Philley IBM 15
#33 Jason Bravman Billie 14
#33 Scott Crockett Adp 14
#33 Billy J. Knowles IBM 14
#36 Paul D. DiNicola IBM 13
#37 Ann Bono Cole Haan 12
#37 Christopher Connolly Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories 12
#37 Joseph Staehle Palantir Technologies 12
#40 Steven Gad Finesse Diamonds 11
#40 Stephanie Pamela Bergman Adp 11
#40 Rajiv Gandhi Adp 11
#40 Peter J. Langsam Bank of America 11
#40 Howard D. Delano Usai 11
#40 Henry Yeh Twinhead International 11
#46 James J. Economos Imperial Schrade 10
#46 Steven G. Shevach IBM 10
#48 Osvaldo Simeone New Jersey Institute Of Technology 9
#48 Viktor L. Gornstein Philips Electronics North America 9
#48 David W. Adler IBM 9

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