Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Somerville, MA ranks #165 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 677 patents from 386 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Somerville, MA include Vecna Robotics, Deka Products Limited Parternship, Emc. That works out to 8.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 386 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Daniel Theobald Vecna Robotics 18
2 James J. Dattolo Deka Products Limited Parternship 12
3 Marten Van Dijk Emc 8
3 David Meiri Emc Ip Holding Company 8
#5 Mark Steven Schnittman Irobot 7
#5 Anuj Madan Skyworks Solutions 7
#5 Victor S. Gehling Constellation Pharmaceuticals 7
#8 Michael Charles Hewitt Sunovion Pharmaceuticals 6
#8 Pamela Basto MIT 6
#10 Samuel Duffley Monotony.Ai 5
#10 Alfredo C. Castro Infinity Pharmaceuticals 5
#10 Qing Tan Zoll Medical 5
#10 Richard W. Heidebrecht Merck 5
#10 Christopher M. Adams Novartis Ag 5
#10 Kai Cao Alibaba 5
#10 Gary Palladino Sharkninja Operating 5
#10 Christopher A. Provenzano Actifio 5
#10 Joshua Kennedy Covidien Lp 5
#19 Daniel S. Costa Covidien Lp 4
#19 Andrew J. Campanella Witricity 4
#19 Alexander Rosen Amazon 4
#19 John M. Sheehan Microsoft 4
#19 Noah Stein Analog Devices 4
#19 Mark A. Morris Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 4
#19 Christopher Everett Thorne Boston Dynamics 4
#19 Joseph R. Dorkin MIT 4
#19 David H. Malcolm IBM 4
#19 Upma Sharma Arsenal Medical 4
#19 Thomas Lada Nano-C 4
#19 Mihai Duduta 24M Technologies 4
#19 J. Christopher Love MIT 4
#19 Jonathan I. Tilliss Deka Products Limited Parternship 4
#19 Bryan Lochman Panasonic 4
#19 Andre Lescarbeau Infinity Pharmaceuticals 4
#19 Julien Papillon Novartis Ag 4
#19 Rogelio Manfred Neumann Irobot 4
#19 Richard Park Groupon 4
#19 Sonjeev Jahagirdar Amazon 4
#39 Christopher M. Ward Broadcom 3
#39 Daniel A. Snyder Infinity Pharmaceuticals 3
#39 Benjamin Stephens Boston Dynamics 3
#39 Matthew H. Daniels Merck 3
#39 Evan Gant Sunbeam Products 3
#39 Craig Sadowski Indigo Ag 3
#39 Andrew Beaulieu Irobot 3
#39 Martin Duplessis Constellation Pharmaceuticals 3
#39 Keith Lang Evernote 3
#39 Andrew K. Hollett Boston Scientific Scimed 3
#39 Michael Voronkov Signum Biosciences 3
#39 Laurent Diehl Pendar Technologies 3

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