Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Boston, MA ranks #73 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 1,276 patents from 707 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Boston, MA include Acushnet, Layer3 Tv, Intel. That works out to 1.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 707 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David A. Bulpett Acushnet 24
2 Vic Odryna Layer3 Tv 17
2 Wajdi K. Feghali Intel 17
2 Yael Maguire Meta 17
2 Patrick Herlihy Layer3 Tv 17
#6 Patrizio Vinciarelli Vlt 12
#7 Matthew R. Tyler Johnson Controls Technology 9
#7 Aristeidis Karalis Witricity 9
#7 William Blinn Lightkeeper 9
#10 William Plumb Mediatek 8
#10 Sumon K. Pal Thync Global 8
#10 Steven Beckhardt Sonos 8
#13 William C. Hasenplaugh Intel 7
#13 Keith Carlton Intel 7
#13 John R. Goscha Lucidity Lights 7
#13 Andreas Goutopoulos Merck 7
#13 Rory McGarry The Gillette Company 7
#13 Derek Roberts Medline Industries, Lp 7
#13 David Arthur Blum 7
#13 Richard Rox Anderson The General Hospital 7
#13 Gregory L. Verdine Harvard University 7
#13 David C. Rogers Artisent 7
#13 Joongoo Lee Sunbeam Products 7
#24 Xinhui Wang IBM 6
#24 Peter Lepeska Viasat 6
#24 Matthew Omon Herigstad Abb Vie 6
#24 David Koh The Mathworks 6
#24 Mehmet Toner The General Hospital 6
#24 George Swallow Cisco 6
#24 Jay A. Stein Hologic 6
#31 Scott Kokones Intel 5
#31 Andreas Loew Novartis Ag 5
#31 Mark S. Oliver Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 5
#31 Colin Lake Ares Trading S.A. 5
#31 Jordan Nollman Clio Designs Incorporated 5
#31 Douglas E. Miller Schlumberger Technology 5
#31 Brian Lee Senaya 5
#31 Chi B. Vu Catabasis Pharmaceuticals 5
#31 Nathanael S. Gray Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 5
#31 Joseph M. Kennedy Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 5
#31 Pradeep Natarajan Amazon 5
#31 Aaron Tang Litl 5
#31 Geoffrey von Maltzahn Indigo Ag 5
#44 Navreet Dhindsa Ipsen Biopharm Limited 4
#44 George Barbastathis MIT 4
#44 Ilya Sokolov Broadcom 4
#44 Ameet Kumar Jain Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 4
#44 Kenneth J. Barr Merck 4
#44 Myles Wilde Intel 4
#44 Francois Maltais Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 4

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