Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Schenectady, NY ranks #188 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 15,286 patents from 1,353 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Schenectady, NY include IBM, GE, Chevron. That works out to 228.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,353 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kangguo Cheng IBM 2,819
2 Tenko Yamashita IBM 554
3 Veeraraghavan S. Basker IBM 466
#4 Son V. Nguyen IBM 274
#5 Evangelos Trifon Laskaris GE 212
#6 Takeshi Nogami IBM 199
#7 Melvin Robert Jackson GE 163
#8 Robert Dean King GE 159
#9 Zuoguang Liu IBM 150
#10 Charles W. Eichelberger GE 113
#11 Gerald Burt Kliman GE 106
#12 Steven Sebastian Burdgick GE 93
#13 Thomas R. Anthony GE 90
#14 Christopher Judson Hardy GE 89
#15 Gary Charles Davis GE 87
#16 Jerome J. Tiemann GE 86
#17 Donald S. Farquhar IBM 82
#18 William P. Kornrumpf GE 78
#19 Sterling B. Brown GE 75
#20 George E. Possin GE 74
#20 Piero Patrone Bonissone GE 74
#22 James D. Brooks GE 72
#23 Ta Yen Ching Chevron 71
#24 James Edward Pickett GE 63
#25 Lowell Scott Smith GE 62
#25 Lionel M. Levinson GE 62
#25 Kei-Hsiung Yang Hannstar Display 62
#28 Thomas Bert Gorczyca GE 60
#28 Robert John Zabala GE 60
#30 Ching-Yeu Wei GE 59
#31 Vivek Venugopal Badami GE 57
#31 Bang M. Kim GE 57
#33 Kwok C. Tam GE 55
#33 Andrew Philip Shapiro GE 55
#35 Krishan Lal Luthra GE 54
#36 Dale M. Brown GE 53
#36 Thomas James Batzinger GE 53
#38 Bharat Sampathkumaran Bagepalli GE 50
#39 Prasanna Khare 49
#40 Judith Stein GE 48
#41 Charles D. Greskovich GE 47
#41 Vitali Victor Lissianski GE 47
#41 Sayed-Amr El-Hamamsy GE 47
#44 Peter D. Phelps GE 46
#45 Kenneth G. Herd GE 45
#46 Christopher Fred Keimel GE 44
#47 Dwain M. White GE 43
#47 Deborah Ann Haitko GE 43
#47 Fred F. Holub GE 43
#47 Hongyi Zhou GE 43

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