Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Melville, NY ranks #1,666 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,003 patents from 180 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Melville, NY include LG, Capital One Services, Interdigital Technology. That works out to 103.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 180 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Moon Il Lee LG 682
2 Tyler Maiman Capital One Services 221
3 Chang-Soo Koo Interdigital Technology 68
#4 Carl Wang Verizon 66
#5 Tal Cohen Google 48
#6 Nobuyuki Tamaki Interdigital Patent Holdings 45
#6 Charles A. Dennean Interdigital Technology 45
#8 Timothy L. Mason New Dimensions Research 39
#9 Zvi Bleier Plx 35
#10 Zinan Lin Interdigital Patent Holdings 34
#11 Theodosios Kountotsis 31
#12 Richard Leifer Arista Enterprises 29
#13 Michael Wilson Black & Decker 27
#13 Hassan Ait-Haddou Danaher 27
#15 Philip Reid Sherman Ppj 25
#16 Michael D. Ross Rca 23
#17 Howard Alliger Misonix 22
#18 Robert G. McGarrah PepsiCo 20
#19 Charles Agnoff Interroll Holding Ag 18
#20 Wolfgang F. Bienwald Leviton Manufacturing Co. 17
#21 Robert Sandler Symbol Technologies 16
#22 Brian Fried Evriholder Products 15
#22 Sai Fung Bren-Tronics 15
#22 Changsoo Koo Interdigital Patent Holdings 15
#25 Robert E. Bidwell Bioresearch 14
#26 Robert A. Greenwald SUNY Research Foundation 11
#26 George B. Stefano 11
#28 David Mitchell Windmiller Unknown 10
#29 Ozgur Keser Leviton Manufacturing Co. 9
#29 George J. Stepniewski Elc Management 9
#29 Paul Di Matteo Robotic Vision Systems 9
#32 Tony Yuen Leviton Manufacturing Co. 8
#32 Susan Fahy First Data 8
#34 Michael A. Patrick US Air Force 7
#35 Piotr Romanczyk Honeywell 6
#35 Stanley Teich Northrop Grumman 6
#35 Devarajan Rajaraman Anorad 6
#35 Melvin Lee Rich Soft Gel Technologies 6
#35 Lawrence G. Kurland Belkin Components 6
#35 Niloufar Faridi US Army 6
#35 Ronald Trezza 6
#35 John C. Papson Dgi Creations 6
#35 Peter DeLuca NVIDIA 6
#35 Rejaul Monir Leviton Manufacturing Co. 6
#35 Ignacio Marc Asperas 6
#35 Clyde Smith Richo Company 6
#47 Donald Faulkner Michelin 5
#47 David R. Spencer Litton Systems 5
#47 Carl Stewart Honeywell 5
#47 Amy Caudy Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 5

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