Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Sharon, MA ranks #663 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 188 patents from 125 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sharon, MA include MIT, IBM, Merck. That works out to 30.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 125 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Leslie Bromberg MIT 10
2 Paul C. Castro IBM 6
3 Xiaoling Chen Merck 5
#4 Vladimir Kostadinov Invensys Systems 4
#5 Sung Park Umagination Labs 3
#5 Jungwhan Chei Water Pik 3
#5 Chang-Tai Hsieh Icagen 3
#5 Tarek A. Samad The General Hospital 3
#5 Jun Qi Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 3
#5 Federico Frigerio MIT 3
#5 Kentaro Futatsugi Pfizer 3
#5 S. Ananth Karumanchi Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 3
#5 Elisha Ziskind Broadcom 3
#5 Ravi Kapur The General Hospital 3
#5 Mark B. Spitzer Kopin 3
#16 Evgeny Roytman Emc 2
#16 Ivan Viktorovich Efremov Pfizer 2
#16 Jeffrey R. Morgan Brown University 2
#16 Mikhail Fridberg Bounce Imaging 2
#16 Vladimir Zelevinsky Oracle 2
#16 Michael Chorev Harvard University 2
#16 Muhammad Arshad Khan Ab Initio Technology 2
#16 Phillip Shaltis Kpr U.S. 2
#16 Jianhong Kang Sensata Technologies 2
#16 Leslie Wilson University of California 2
#16 Courtney J. Hopkins Sharkninja Operating 2
#16 William Edelman Tyrx 2
#16 R. Mathew Thomas Ariad Pharmaceuticals 2
#16 Yosef Stein Analog Devices 2
#16 Yeshaya Koblick Foro Energy 2
#16 Terrence K. Jones Emo Labs 2
#16 Joshua Robert Giguere Rhodes Technologies 2
#16 Brian M. Schlossberg Pioneer Surgical Technology 2
#16 William Edelman Amsel Medical 2
#16 Frederick P. Herrmann Kopin 2
#36 Omid C. Farokhazd MIT 1
#36 Brond Larson Ab Initio Technology 1
#36 Iwona Wrona Johnson & Johnson 1
#36 Chris Kadamus Bayer Healthcare 1
#36 Wei Hui Arris Enterprises 1
#36 Biao Yu The Mathworks 1
#36 Michael J. Prerau The General Hospital 1
#36 Yujiang Geno Shi Harvard University 1
#36 Katie L. Ciesienski Duke University 1
#36 Rui Zheng Novartis Ag 1
#36 Philip B. Komarnitsky Ziopharm Oncology 1
#36 Lily Cheng Merck 1
#36 Stephen Connolly Depuy Spine 1
#36 Leonid Winestein Intel 1
#36 Jeremy Asher Glaun 1

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