Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Wappingers Falls, NY ranks #339 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 9,114 patents from 884 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wappingers Falls, NY include IBM, Globalfoundries, AMD. That works out to 1493.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 884 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Chung-Lung K. Shum IBM 358
2 Stephen W. Bedell IBM 347
3 Keith Kwong Hon Wong Globalfoundries 220
#4 Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy IBM 174
#5 Edward E. Kelley IBM 173
#6 David C. Long IBM 167
#7 Christopher F. Lyons AMD 147
#8 Dominic J. Schepis IBM 141
#9 Arkadiy O. Tsfasman IBM 118
#10 Ronald G. Filippi IBM 114
#11 Laertis Economikos IBM 108
#12 Ronald M. Smith, Sr. IBM 103
#13 Charles F. Webb IBM 98
#14 Wayne M. Moreau IBM 96
#15 Lawrence Jacobowitz IBM 92
#16 Meikei Ieong IBM 88
#17 Benjamin J. Kaufman Chevron 79
#18 Rajarao Jammy IBM 77
#19 Kenneth J. Oakes IBM 72
#19 Robert J. Sonnelitter, III IBM 72
#21 William H. Ma IBM 70
#22 Jochen Beintner IBM 68
#23 Dongbing Shao IBM 65
#24 Zheng Xu IBM 63
#25 Sushumna Iruvanti IBM 61
#25 Joseph Ervin IBM 61
#27 Thomas J. Karol R.T. Vanderbilt Company 60
#27 K. Paul Muller Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 60
#27 Yanxiang Liu Globalfoundries 60
#30 Michael A. Blake IBM 59
#31 Ulrike Gruening IBM 57
#31 Paul C. Parries IBM 57
#33 Kathryn T. Schonenberg IBM 54
#34 John A. Iacoponi AMD 53
#35 Tomoko Ogura Halo Lsi 50
#36 Gerd Frankowsky Infineon Technologies Ag 47
#36 Robert Hannon IBM 47
#36 Stephan Kudelka Infineon Technologies Ag 47
#39 Ranee W. Kwong IBM 45
#39 Hormazdyar M. Dalal IBM 45
#41 David Meltzer Seiko Epson 44
#41 Krishna R. Tunga IBM 44
#43 Robin Hsin Kuo Chao IBM 39
#43 Charles J. Taft IBM 39
#45 Jian Tan IBM 38
#46 William M. Sweeney Chevron 37
#46 Mark Neisser Az Electronic Materials Usa 37
#46 Michael A. Schappert IBM 37
#49 Debjit Sinha IBM 36
#49 Harris M. Morgenstern IBM 36

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