Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Niskayuna, NY ranks #194 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 14,963 patents from 949 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Niskayuna, NY include IBM, GE, Sk Hynix. That works out to 719.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 949 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ruilong Xie IBM 1,139
2 Dechao Guo IBM 230
3 Hemanth Jagannathan IBM 227
#4 Bernard Patrick Bewlay GE 202
#5 Ruqiang Bao IBM 185
#6 Alok Mani Srivastava GE 183
#7 Zhenxing Bi IBM 180
#8 Ronald Scott Bunker GE 170
#9 Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo GE 164
#10 Anil Raj Duggal GE 131
#11 Narendra Digamber Joshi GE 123
#12 Michael Joseph O'Brien GE 112
#13 Hosadurga Shobha IBM 110
#14 Kwan-Yong Lim Sk Hynix 104
#15 Lewis Berkley Davis, Jr. GE 102
#15 Daniel Chanemougame Globalfoundries 102
#17 David Smith Ge-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas 101
#18 Holly Ann Comanzo GE 99
#19 Anant Achyut Setlur GE 97
#20 William Albert Challener Seagate Technology 95
#21 Kevin George Harding GE 93
#22 Jing Guo 91
#23 Yunpeng Yin IBM 84
#23 Bugra Han Ertas GE 84
#25 Robert James Perry GE 82
#26 William Dwight Gerstler GE 80
#26 Peter Henry Tu GE 80
#28 Christopher Edward Wolfe GE 79
#28 John Anderson Fergus Ross GE 79
#30 Muthumanickam Sankarapandian IBM 77
#31 Mehmet Arik GE 76
#32 Hua Xia GE 74
#33 Chun Wing Yeung IBM 73
#34 John Eric Tkaczyk GE 69
#35 Richard Louis Zinser GE 67
#36 Mark Ernest Vermilyea GE 66
#36 Kevin W. Brew IBM 66
#38 Luis Jose Garces GE 65
#38 Richard Joseph Saia GE 65
#40 Arvind Kumar Tiwari GE 63
#41 Don Mark Lipkin GE 61
#42 Joseph John Shiang GE 60
#42 Kwok Pong Chan GE 60
#42 Lembit Salasoo GE 60
#45 Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus GE 59
#45 Christopher Donald Johnson GE 59
#45 Curtis Alan Johnson GE 59
#48 Roy James Primus GE 58
#48 Robert John Filkins GE 58
#48 Peter William Lorraine GE 58

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