Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Rensselaer, NY ranks #3,206 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 941 patents from 101 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Rensselaer, NY include IBM, Momentive Performance Materials Gmbh, Snow Solutions. That works out to 102.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 101 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Choonghyun Lee IBM 401
2 Sean Teehan IBM 70
3 Shyng-Tsong Chen IBM 59
#4 James J. Demarest IBM 45
#5 Keith J. Weller Momentive Performance Materials Gmbh 30
#6 Mark Noonan Snow Solutions 23
#7 Timothy Hanlon GE 17
#8 Sunita Singh Baghel GE 15
#9 Donald C. Clagett GE 13
#10 Samuel H. Herring Astenjohnson 10
#11 Fred G. Scheufler Optimum Air 9
#11 Lawrence S. Zisman Pulmokine 9
#11 Lars Oliver Graf Dr. Ing. H.C. F. Porsche Ag 9
#11 Alex Richard Hubbard IBM 9
#15 Devika Sarkar Grant IBM 8
#16 Julius Frankel US Army 7
#16 Jeffrey Robert Simkins GE 7
#16 Kevin Jon O'Dell GE 7
#19 Gregory Thomas McMullin Regeneron Pharmaceuticals 6
#19 Dejian Xie Acetylon Pharmaceuticals 6
#19 Sandra C. Beck 6
#19 Erik Verduijn Globalfoundries 6
#19 Devika Sil IBM 6
#19 Jon Swanson Alkermes Pharma Ireland Limited 6
#25 Rachel Lizabeth Farnum GE 5
#25 Michael Reuman Sterling Drug 5
#25 Michael C. Villani GE 5
#25 Trevor LANGLEY Regeneron Pharmaceuticals 5
#25 Richard Jeff Gildersleeve Regeneron Pharmaceuticals 5
#25 Patrick F. Mahoney Smith & Mahoney, P.C. 5
#31 Osayuki Akiyama Tokyo Electron Limited 4
#31 Joseph A. Kapp Soraa 4
#31 Don Royall Houston GE 4
#31 Frederick Coulston Angus Chemical 4
#31 George Rowan Silliman GE 4
#31 Muralikrishna Valluri Emisphere Technologies 4
#31 James P. Harding Gilead Connecticut 4
#38 William M. McCarthy Albany International 3
#38 Sheldon Mink Regeneron Pharmaceuticals 3
#38 Richard R. Birch Microsemi Semiconductor Limited 3
#38 Daisuke Mori Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 3
#38 Albert Gregory DiRienzo One Health Group 3
#38 Makoto Hirakane Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 3
#38 Brian Haney Unknown 3
#45 Daniel Favre Sabic Innovative Plastics B.V. 2
#45 Larry P. Rice US Dept of Energy 2
#45 Thomas O. Chesser Garden Way Incorporated 2
#45 Theodore Carlton Kreutz GE 2
#45 Boaz Alperson Globalfoundries 2
#45 Kathryn Cloutier 2

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