Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cambridge, MA ranks #41 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 2,186 patents from 1,174 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cambridge, MA include MIT, Intellectual Ventures, IBM. That works out to 18.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,174 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Robert S. Langer MIT 24
2 Tony S. Pan Intellectual Ventures 22
3 Jeehwan Kim IBM 21
#4 Fan Yang BOE 19
#4 Yedidya Dotan Emc 19
#6 Guillermo J. Tearney The General Hospital 17
#6 Martin Fisher Layer3 Tv 17
#8 Muthiah Manoharan Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 16
#9 Ramesh Raskar MIT 13
#9 Michael H. Baym Intellectual Ventures 13
#11 David R. Liu Harvard University 12
#11 Jaewon Choi Samsung 12
#11 Weng Hong Teh Intel 12
#14 Kevin Wayne Kuntz Epizyme 11
#14 Feng Zhang MIT 11
#16 Jonathon Reilly Sonos 10
#17 Brian K. Albrecht Constellation Pharmaceuticals 9
#17 Martin Maier Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 9
#19 Vahid Tarokh AT&T 8
#19 Daniel Griffith Anderson MIT 8
#19 Alexander P. McCauley Witricity 8
#19 Sun Hwa Lee Samsung 8
#23 Tirtha Chakraborty Moderna Therapeutics 7
#23 Julia Kozhukh Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials Cmp Holdings 7
#23 Sudhir Vijendra Emc 7
#23 Harvey Tuch Broadcom 7
#23 Craig E. Masse Nimbus Lakshmi 7
#23 Orhun K. Muratoglu The General Hospital 7
#23 David J. Mooney Harvard University 7
#23 George M. Whitesides Harvard University 7
#23 Arvind Thiagarajan Amazon 7
#32 David Paul Ramos Amazon 6
#32 Toshiaki Koike-Akino Mitsubishi Electric 6
#32 Adam Soroca Jumptap 6
#32 Eric T. Fossel Strategic Science & Technologies 6
#32 Jorey Ramer Jumptap 6
#32 Andrew M. Haidle Merck 6
#32 Jeffrey M. Keller IBM 6
#32 Matthew G. Stanton Sirna Therapeutics 6
#32 Alireza Rezania Johnson & Johnson 6
#32 Balkrishen Bhat Isis Pharmaceuticals 6
#32 Yan Zhang Virginia Commonwealth University 6
#32 Cole Constantineau Becton, Dickinson And 6
#32 Christopher Rohde Factor Bioscience 6
#32 David Kim Microsoft 6
#32 Matthew Angel Factor Bioscience 6
#32 Michael R. Jirousek Eli Lilly 6
#32 David A. Weitz Harvard University 6
#32 Ravindra Kumar Acceleron Pharma 6
#32 David J. Perreault MIT 6

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