Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Wellesley, MA ranks #518 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 237 patents from 123 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wellesley, MA include Layer3 Tv, Boston Scientific Scimed, AMD. That works out to 8.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 123 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Phil Sutherland Layer3 Tv 17
2 Isaac Ostrovsky Boston Scientific Scimed 12
3 David A. Roberts AMD 10
#4 Robert Tishman Lightkeeper 9
#5 Arthur Keigler Tel Nexx 7
#6 Yu Jiang Shanghai Xpt Technology Limited 6
#6 John Ciolfi The Mathworks 6
#8 Kristy M. Wood Modernatx 4
#8 Charles Hwang Becton, Dickinson And 4
#10 Maria Palasis Boston Scientific Scimed 3
#10 Thomas Wilde Bayer Cropscience 3
#10 T. Eric Hopkins Opteon 3
#10 Wayne A. Marasco Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 3
#10 Vikram Pattanayak Harvard University 3
#10 Richard K. Holman 24M Technologies 3
#10 Kenneth W. Bair Burroughs Wellcome 3
#10 Xin Huang Amgen 3
#10 Kenneth C. Anderson Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 3
#10 Mark W. Wolfson Depuy Mitek 3
#10 Brett A. Miwa Maxim Integrated Products 3
#21 Justin Testa Cognex Technology And Investment 2
#21 Robert Gonsalves Avid Technology 2
#21 Lisa M. Donnelly Depuy Mitek 2
#21 Carlo J. De Luca Altec 2
#21 Mark E. Duggan Merck 2
#21 Shuai Wu Verizon 2
#21 Michael F. Fallon Intel 2
#21 L. Donald Gilmore Altec 2
#21 Richard M. Haas IBM 2
#21 Mark E. Herrmann 2
#21 Mary D. DiBiase 2
#21 Yu Zhu Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co. 2
#21 Jeffrey A. Kraemer Cisco 2
#21 Stephen J. Derezinski Eastman Kodak 2
#21 Krishna Balasubramanian The Mathworks 2
#21 Jane Hirsh Collegium Pharmaceutical 2
#21 Kevin G. Connors AT&T 2
#21 Douglas B. Jacoby Morphotek 2
#21 Jeremy Allaire Brightcove 2
#21 Eve H. Barlow Abb Vie 2
#21 Brian Goldberg Axsun Technologies 2
#21 David Bear Covectra 2
#21 Roger S. Zimmerman 3Play Media 2
#21 Kenneth C. Hayes Brandeis University 2
#21 Robert J. Mears Atomera Incorporated 2
#21 Yue-Mei Zhang Johnson & Johnson 2
#47 Victoria M. Richon Sloan Kettering Institute For Cancer Research 1
#47 Matthew J. Aprea E Ink Holdings 1
#47 Yang Teng Children'S Medical Center 1
#47 Jena Jordahl 1

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