Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Worcester, MA ranks #729 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 175 patents from 111 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Worcester, MA include Anderson Power Products, Nektar Therapeutics, IBM. That works out to 0.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 111 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Nathan T. Smith Anderson Power Products 9
2 Timothy A. Riley Nektar Therapeutics 8
3 Christian Mueller IBM 5
3 David H. Pitcher Bose 5
3 Valentin Gapontsev Ipg Photonics 5
#6 Wen Chung Lim Abb Vie 4
#6 Dan Wang Foxconn 4
#6 Guangping Gao University of Pennsylvania 4
#9 Sean Timothy Fleming Vlt 3
#9 Jay Pupecki Bose 3
#9 Jennifer M. Perez Abb Vie 3
#9 Subba R. Gaddamadugu Emc Ip Holding Company 3
#13 Nazer Khalaf Altus Biologics 2
#13 Ermal Toto Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2
#13 Shaughn H. Bryant Abb Vie 2
#13 Laura Elizabeth Firstenberg Boston Scientific Scimed 2
#13 Gary R. Ostroff Alpha-Beta Technology 2
#13 Min Wan AbbVie 2
#13 Gregory P. Prokopowicz Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 2
#13 Asem Othman Veridium Ip Limited 2
#13 Ramanujam Vedantham Saint-Gobain Abrasifs 2
#13 Nichole A. Roy Abb Vie 2
#13 Julienne Labrecque Saint-Gobain Abrasives 2
#13 Zhuoyun Li Newport 2
#13 John Amann Zoll Medical 2
#13 Ronald F. Vitaris Smith & Nephew 2
#13 Jin Wuk Sung Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 2
#13 Richard McDuffie Helen Of Troy Limited 2
#13 Joseph G. Matuck Abb Vie 2
#13 Itzcoatl A. Pla Abb Vie 2
#13 George Galica Agilent Technologies 2
#13 Robert P. Wierzbicki Emc 2
#33 Stephen Derosier Boston Scientific Scimed 1
#33 Christopher C. Benevides Waters Technologies 1
#33 Sarah Latta Optimum Technologies 1
#33 Tse-Chun Kuo University Of Massachusetts 1
#33 Don B. Gammon Governors Of The University Of Alberta 1
#33 Ferenc Varadi Robert Bosch Gmbh 1
#33 Rob Fish The Sun Products 1
#33 Claudia Abeijon MIT 1
#33 Robert A. Rizzuto Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics 1
#33 Tathagat Duttaray University Of Massachusetts 1
#33 Brien J. Housand Fraen 1
#33 Guan Wang Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics 1
#33 Nicholas Leventis Aerogel Technologies 1
#33 Adam Young Teledyne Scientific & Imaging 1
#33 Chun-Ting Chen Healthstream Taiwan 1
#33 Doug Marcotte Sunesis Pharmaceuticals 1
#33 Nandakumar Selvaraj Vital Connect 1
#33 Anthony Possemato Cell Signaling Technology 1

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