Center for Economic Growth

Capital Region inventors had a hand in more than 1,000 semiconductor device-related patents issued in 2016, and they played a lead role in more than three quarters of them. While the bulk of those patents were assigned to GLOBALFOUNDRIES and IBM, several other semiconductor and electronics companies with R&D operations, such as those at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, significantly ramped up their patent generation within this technology class, according to a Center for Economic Growth review of patents listed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Patent Full-Text and Image Database.

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