Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Melrose, MA ranks #1,005 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 125 patents from 66 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Melrose, MA include Emc, Gradiant, Novartis Ag. That works out to 4.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 66 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Kevin D. Bowers Emc 9
2 Prakash Narayan Govindan Gradiant 6
3 Seth Ettenberg Novartis Ag 5
3 Howard Bregman Amgen 5
#5 Douglas Harriott Osram Sylvania 4
#5 John Joyal Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals 4
#7 Scott Lefton Dirac Solutions 3
#7 Brian D. Musselman Ionsense 3
#7 Doug Harriott Transmedics 3
#7 Ming Ji Maquet (Suzhou) Co. 3
#7 Makhlouf Redjdal 6K 3
#7 Andrey A. Boukharov Monsanto Technology 3
#7 Lizbeth Celeste Deselm Merck 3
#7 Daniel J. Sexton Dyax 3
#7 Selma Svendsen Irobot 3
#7 Joyce Chien Tu Sharkninja Operating 3
#17 Sunil Krishna Sainis E Ink Holdings 2
#17 Gregory H. Vander Rhodes Thermo Scientific Portable Analytical Instruments 2
#17 Geoffrey Y. Smith Keurig Green Mountain 2
#17 Jonathan Matthew Bond Affera 2
#17 Marco Giovanardi Clearmotion 2
#17 Pericles Calias Shire Human Genetic Therapies 2
#17 Adam Leech Sharkninja Operating 2
#17 Magnus P. Ronn Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals 2
#17 Stephen Phillips Lutron Technology Company 2
#17 Matthew Mackey Eisai R&D Management Co. 2
#17 Arijit Banerjee GE 2
#17 Nicholas R. Desany RTX (Raytheon) 2
#29 Jordan Krechmer Ionsense 1
#29 Iris Kedar Rubin The General Hospital 1
#29 Adam Hicks Physical Sciences 1
#29 Thomas J. DePlonty Information Extraction Systems 1
#29 Curtiss Paul Schneider MIT 1
#29 Brett Chevalier Invetx 1
#29 Marc Norvig MIT 1
#29 Eugene H. Cook Draper Laboratory 1
#29 Anthony Williams Dyax 1
#29 Clifford Lyon Cbs Interactive 1
#29 Christopher R. Deuel Boston Scientific Scimed 1
#29 Darryl Edward Pollica Ivys 1
#29 Christina Fleet Aveo Pharmaceuticals 1
#29 Raghida BUKHALID Merrimack Pharmaceuticals 1
#29 Michael J. Lavado Sensata Technologies 1
#29 Jennifer Linnane Horsepower Technologies 1
#29 John Guzowski Biogen Ma 1
#29 Marvin Ryou G.I. Windows 1
#29 William R. Breen Nightingale 1
#29 Abdelghani Achab Merck 1
#29 Steven Richard Witowski Bristol-Myers Squibb 1
#29 Agnes Csilla Domotor Gem Co. 1

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