Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Troy, NY ranks #832 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 4,027 patents from 610 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Troy, NY include IBM, AMD, Uop. That works out to 78.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 610 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Alexander Reznicek IBM 1,290
2 Marc A. Bergendahl IBM 115
3 Lu You AMD 89
#4 Robert L. Bedard Uop 52
#5 Spyridon Skordas IBM 51
#6 Frank J. Traver GE 50
#7 Osman Saim Dinc GE 46
#8 Douglas M. Dukes Melior Innovations 35
#9 David Mulford Shaddock GE 28
#9 Henry A. Scarton Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 28
#9 Thomas V. Casey, II Boston Scientific Scimed 28
#9 Mingxin Fan Sartomer Technology Company 28
#9 Frank W. Mont Globalfoundries 28
#14 Gavin McIntyre Ecovative Design 26
#14 Bruce Gordon Barnett GE 26
#16 Derek W. Nelson Abb Vie 25
#17 John Kelly Amoco 24
#17 Shichao Wang Crystal Is 24
#19 Fenglin Liu Headway Technologies 23
#19 Kenneth William Rohling GE 23
#21 Eben Bayer Ecovative Design 21
#21 Kiruba Sivasubramaniam GE 21
#21 Farzin H. Azad GE 21
#24 William I. Cox Virogenetics 20
#24 Peter W. Mansfield Chart 20
#24 Ahmad Safi GE 20
#27 Kevin Warner Flanagan GE 19
#27 Satya N. Chakravarti IBM 19
#27 Jorel Lalicki Vital Vio 19
#27 Mary Krenceski Ppc Broadband 19
#31 Mehmet Demiroglu GE 18
#31 Ryk E. Spoor International Electronic Machines 18
#33 Steven J. Winckler Cyclics 17
#33 Donald Robert Howard GE 17
#35 David E. Hauber Adc Acquisition 16
#35 Jennifer L. Vreeland Auterra 16
#35 Dhaval A. Bhandari ExxonMobil 16
#38 John Acocella IBM 15
#38 Stephen Derby Mpi 15
#38 Richard P. Surprenant IBM 15
#38 Richard A. Striker GE 15
#42 Richard A. Dorman Mechanical Technology 14
#43 Yiping Zhao University Of Georgia 13
#43 Christopher Cramer IBM 13
#43 Derek L. Bruening Broadcom 13
#43 Eun Joo Park LG 13
#43 John Quinn Flir Systems 13
#43 Dustan Skidmore Plug Power 13
#43 Ford Oxaal Grandeye 13
#50 Corey Nicholas Bufi GE 12

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