Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Wakefield, MA ranks #1,675 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 73 patents from 43 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wakefield, MA include Thermo Fisher, Merck, Mersana Therapeutics. That works out to 2.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–43 of 43 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jennifer O'Neil Thermo Fisher 6
2 Solomon D. Kattar Merck 5
2 Patrick R. Conlon Mersana Therapeutics 5
#4 Eric D. Blom Hansa Medical Products 3
#4 William J. Watt Amazon 3
#4 Sripati Sah Persimmon Technologies 3
#4 Natarajan Thirumurugan Osram Sylvania 3
#4 Ian Tinkler Keurig Green Mountain 3
#9 Phillip Clark Millipore 2
#9 Josh Goldlust Plumchoice 2
#9 Peter Swai Horsepower Technologies 2
#9 Melissa M. Dascoli Zoll Medical 2
#9 Daniel J. Burns Z-Medica 2
#9 Timothy M. Pastore Microscan Systems 2
#9 Kevin Kelley Virtualagility 2
#16 James A. Stickney US Air Force 1
#16 Marc Laverdiere Entegris 1
#16 Jon F. Edd The General Hospital 1
#16 Edward Rodriguez Solais Lighting 1
#16 Chris A. Devlin Microline Surgical 1
#16 George Roberto, Jr. Unknown 1
#16 Jeffrey M. Crump Hitachi Data Systems 1
#16 Jeremy R. DUVALL The Broad Institute 1
#16 William Tao Shi Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 1
#16 William Robert Entley Versum Materials Us 1
#16 Allan Stratton Microsoft 1
#16 Jeffrey Paquette RTX (Raytheon) 1
#16 Colin S. Whelan RTX (Raytheon) 1
#16 Nathan J. Maxfield Verizon 1
#16 Tyler Rockwell Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 1
#16 Peter F. Pescatore Cabot 1
#16 Kathleen Seyb Ra Pharmaceuticals 1
#16 Dennis Sousa Transmedics 1
#16 Robert Buffone Yottaa 1
#16 C. Eric Schwartz Eisai 1
#16 Jennifer Quimby E Ink Holdings 1
#16 John G. Lert, Jr. Symbotic 1
#16 G.Timothy Ryan Roberto 1
#16 Anne-Marie Turgeon Empirix 1
#16 Ken Beaudoin Smith & Nephew 1
#16 Gavin MacBeath Harvard University 1
#16 Kevin Chow Oracle 1
#16 Vittorio Bucchieri Verizon 1

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