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Corning Incorporated
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Corning Incorporated
— 7,258 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#108
of
105,732
Top 1%
3,890
inventors
Fortune 500
#323
(2024)
·
Inventor 500 →
7,258
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 399 patents in 2023.
peak 399
1996: 88 patents
1996
1997: 78 patents
1998: 72 patents
1999: 102 patents
1999
2000: 114 patents
2001: 216 patents
2002: 250 patents
2002
2003: 260 patents
2004: 237 patents
2005: 114 patents
2005
2006: 135 patents
2007: 129 patents
2008: 98 patents
2008
2009: 124 patents
2010: 183 patents
2011: 213 patents
2011
2012: 241 patents
2013: 283 patents
2014: 278 patents
2014
2015: 272 patents
2016: 269 patents
2017: 358 patents
2017
2018: 298 patents
2019: 326 patents
2020: 314 patents
2020
2021: 326 patents
2022: 333 patents
2023: 399 patents
2023
2024: 376 patents
2025: 226 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Corning Incorporated
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
3,890
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Dana Craig Bookbinder
301
2
Ming-Jun Li
277
3
Pushkar Tandon
216
#4
Charlene Marie Smith
189
#5
Timothy Michael Gross
165
#6
Nicholas Francis Borrelli
159
#7
Matthew John Dejneka
146
#8
George Halsey Beall
145
#9
Kishor Purushottam Gadkaree
143
#10
Daniel Aloysius Nolan
134
#11
Adam James Ellison
121
#12
Scott Robertson Bickham
118
#13
Robert Michael Morena
116
#14
Stephan Lvovich Logunov
116
#15
Steven Edward DeMartino
113
#16
Karl William Koch, III
101
#17
Bruce Gardiner Aitken
101
#18
Rostislav Vatchev Roussev
96
#19
Jacques Gollier
91
#20
Michael Edward Badding
90
#21
Xiaoju Guo
89
#22
Robert Anthony Schaut
88
#23
Shandon Dee Hart
88
#24
Thomas Dale Ketcham
85
#25
John Christopher Mauro
82
#26
George E. Berkey
82
#27
Ljerka Ukrainczyk
82
#28
Douglas Munroe Beall
80
#29
Natesan Venkataraman
80
#30
Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra
76
#31
Thierry Luc Alain Dannoux
76
#32
Garrett Andrew Piech
75
#33
Qiang Fu
75
#34
Robert Alan Bellman
74
#35
James Joseph Price
73
#36
John Stephen Peanasky
72
#37
Xin Chen
72
#38
Vitor Marino Schneider
71
#39
Sinue Gomez
69
#40
Yuhui Jin
67
#41
Guangli Hu
67
#42
Daniel Warren Hawtof
66
#43
Prantik Mazumder
66
#44
Steven Bruce Dawes
65
#45
Mingqian He
64
#46
Gregory Albert Merkel
62
#47
Theresa Chang
62
#48
Charles Andrew Paulson
61
#49
William James Miller
60
#50
Alexander Mikhailovich Streltsov
60
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