Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Lexington, MA ranks #105 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 971 patents from 421 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Lexington, MA include The Invention Science Fund I, IBM, Conformis. That works out to 28.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 421 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Royce A. Levien The Invention Science Fund I 72
2 Qizhi Liu IBM 27
3 Daniel Steines Conformis 15
#4 Wei Li Enanta Pharmaceuticals 13
#4 Mark J. Charney Intel 13
#6 Michael C. Mountz Amazon 12
#7 Roger D. Tung Concert Pharmaceuticals 10
#7 Deqiang Niu Bristol-Myers Squibb 10
#7 Fenglin Yin Verizon 10
#10 Koon Hoo Teo Mitsubishi Electric 9
#10 Tristan Y. Ma Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 9
#10 Jasbir Seehra Acceleron Pharma 9
#13 Alexander Pikovsky IBM 8
#13 Vladimir Bulovic MIT 8
#13 Arthur L. Coburn, IV Sonos 8
#13 Zhiying Jin Verizon 8
#17 Jeong-Ju Cho LG 7
#17 Quanfu Fan IBM 7
#19 Nagasree Chakka Xenon Pharmaceuticals 6
#19 Ronald J. Forni Agilent Technologies 6
#19 Kripa K. Varanasi MIT 6
#19 Ching-yin Hong Sifotonics Technologies Co. 6
#19 Julie F. Liu Concert Pharmaceuticals 6
#19 Eugene Tan Netbio 6
#19 Amarpreet S. Sawhney Incept 6
#26 Daniel A. Beaudet Velasa Sports 5
#26 Paula Ann Boriack-Sjodin Epizyme 5
#26 Yufang Xiao Merck 5
#26 Stephen E. Gordon Broadcom 5
#26 Yumei Huang Xi'An University Of Technology 5
#26 David Stephen Reiner Emc 5
#26 Jaeyeon Kim Honeywell 5
#26 James Wright Computer Motion 5
#26 Sebastien Nussbaum AMD 5
#26 Rishi G. Vaswani Constellation Pharmaceuticals 5
#36 Peter L. Chu Polycom 4
#36 Guy L. Steele, Jr. Oracle 4
#36 Vijay Parthasarathy Power Integrations 4
#36 Robert Yongxin Zhao Immunogen 4
#36 Anthony John Bettini Appthority 4
#36 Suresh Gopalan Pentair Water Pool And Spa 4
#36 Farshid Mostowfi Schlumberger Technology 4
#36 Jacob Woodruff Asm Ip Holding B.V. 4
#36 Yuhui Qian Verizon 4
#36 Timothy R. Segall Soundbite Communications 4
#36 William M. Quinn IBM 4
#36 Naoki Ota 24M Technologies 4
#36 Rahul Sen Nantero 4
#36 Lui Lam Skyworks Solutions 4
#36 Bhumip Khasnabish Verizon 4

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