Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Needham, MA ranks #495 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 251 patents from 135 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Needham, MA include Merck, Sharkninja Operating, Emc Ip Holding Company. That works out to 7.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 135 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Anandan Palani Merck 9
2 Owen R. Johnson Sharkninja Operating 7
3 Adnan Sahin Emc Ip Holding Company 6
3 Matthew P. Roberts Meltz 6
3 John Michael Ellis Merck 6
3 Morgan Hays Layer3 Tv 6
#7 Yongxin Han Merck 5
#7 James A. Kane Polestar Technologies 5
#7 Michael D. Altman Merck 5
#7 Ranganathan Shashidhar US Air Force 5
#7 Akin Akinc Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 5
#12 Brian Levine The Nielsen Company (Us) 4
#12 Edward J. Morgan Skyhook Wireless 4
#12 Ahmed Busnaina Northwestern University 4
#12 John Chan Ballard Power Systems 4
#12 Brett Andler Sharkninja Operating 4
#17 Mike Mahoney Ptc 3
#17 Richard L. Miller Manta Devices 3
#17 Lee Core Arsenal Medical 3
#17 Brett G. Webster Otter Products 3
#17 Kun Liu Merck 3
#17 Robert T. Peters Bioverativ Therapeutics 3
#17 Karen M. Schramm Gte Government Systems 3
#17 Neal Ennis Brenner Xl Hybrids 3
#17 Charles N. Serhan Brigham and Women's Hospital 3
#17 David D. Konieczynski Depuy Spine 3
#17 Marc D. Friedman Avedro 3
#17 John Sherry Boston Scientific Scimed 3
#17 David Jalbert Exceptional Ip Holdings 3
#17 Steve Han Philip Morris Products S.A. 3
#31 Cristina Hartshorn Brandeis University 2
#31 Harry J. Schechter Schechter Tech 2
#31 Amanda Jane Wilson Helen Of Troy Limited 2
#31 Steven A. Kates Lakewood Amedex 2
#31 Paul Sabin Protonex Technology 2
#31 Chester A. Metcalf, III Ariad Pharmaceuticals 2
#31 Binyuan Sun Merck 2
#31 David A. Schatz Witricity 2
#31 Kenneth Focht Becton, Dickinson And 2
#31 Young-Il Jang A123 Systems 2
#31 Rahul K. Dhanda T2 Biosystems 2
#31 Aditya Agrawal The Mathworks 2
#31 Nancy Lane University of California 2
#31 Bob DeRemer Ptc 2
#31 David S. Barrett Irobot 2
#31 Marc S. Weinberg Draper Laboratory 2
#31 Bing Guan Millennium Pharmaceuticals 2
#31 David L. Carnahan Nanolab 2
#31 David Smith Rai Strategic Holdings 2
#50 Ajay Ahuja Tepha 1

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