Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Framingham, MA ranks #413 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 295 patents from 162 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Framingham, MA include Intel, The Mathworks, Nuclera. That works out to 4.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 162 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gilbert M. Wolrich Intel 23
2 Pieter J. Mosterman The Mathworks 13
3 Richard J. Paolini, Jr. Nuclera 8
3 Garth A. Dickie IBM 8
#5 Paul S. Charifson Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 7
#5 Rachit Ohri Covidien Lp 7
#7 Michael M. Lipp Civitas Therapeutics 6
#7 Hilmar Lehnert Sonos 6
#7 Daniel M. Fogarty Hunter Douglas 6
#10 Rajeeva Singh Immunogen 4
#10 Michael Louis Miller Immunogen 4
#10 Jinwang Xu Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 4
#10 Ankit Desai The Mathworks 4
#10 Matthew Copithorne Lifeline Scientific 4
#10 David Wingate Analog Devices 4
#16 Philip A. Lessard Agrivida 3
#16 Tolga Nihat Aytek Disney 3
#16 John E. Memmott Abb Vie 3
#16 Chris Bambacus Litl 3
#16 Sateesha Nadabar Cognex 3
#16 David H. Altman RTX (Raytheon) 3
#16 Steven J. Blacker Corindus 3
#23 Justin Guild Modernatx 2
#23 Bryan Phil Douros Ab Initio Technology 2
#23 Matthew John Meyer Novartis Ag 2
#23 James R. Rusche Biomarin Pharmaceutical 2
#23 William Bertolino Boston Scientific Scimed 2
#23 Jay Gainsboro Securus Technologies 2
#23 Peter Bates Schlage Lock Company 2
#23 Cheryl Larrivee-Elkins Taris Biomedical 2
#23 Marvin L. Vestal Virgin Instruments 2
#23 Xiangyun Ye Cognex 2
#23 Christopher Hebert Emc 2
#23 Joseph Mattia Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 2
#23 Francisco Javier Santos Rodriguez HP 2
#23 Dmitri Pal IBM 2
#23 Gustavo Fontana Bose 2
#23 Jennifer H. Czerepinski Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics 2
#23 Brian Doughty Irobot 2
#23 Linda Engle Bristol-Myers Squibb 2
#23 Christopher J. Comis Cavium, Llc. 2
#23 Guoyou Xu Enanta Pharmaceuticals 2
#23 John A. Hingston Boston Scientific Scimed 2
#23 Carol Iturralde Cisco 2
#23 Daniel S. Roseman Shire Human Genetic Therapies 2
#23 Gary Robinson Orca Health 2
#23 Laszlo Otto Drimusz Bose 2
#23 J. Aquiles Sanchez Brandeis University 2
#49 Gary Markosyan Radiation Monitoring Devices 1
#49 Dudley C. Freeman Accelerated Media Technologies 1

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