Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Acton, MA ranks #246 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 503 patents from 241 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Acton, MA include Boston Scientific Scimed, Verizon, Amazon.

Showing 1–50 of 241 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Barry Weitzner Boston Scientific Scimed 15
2 Jianxiu Hao Verizon 14
3 Peter R. Wurman Amazon 13
#4 Bo Zhou Skyworks Solutions 11
#4 Anil Jeswani Ledvance Gmbh 11
#6 Gary Kappel Boston Scientific Scimed 10
#7 Matteo Frigo Amazon 9
#8 Daniel M. Jamrog IBM 7
#8 Jian Lin Forma Therapeutics 7
#10 Evgeniya Freydina Siemens Water Technologies 6
#10 David R. Oran Cisco 6
#12 Vishwas Mohaniraj Deokar Schneider Electric It 5
#12 John S. Petersen Syndevrx 5
#12 Aaron Abroff Philip Morris Products S.A. 5
#12 Kristofer Hellick Reierson Microsoft 5
#12 William T. Freeman MIT 5
#12 Manjunath D. Makonahalli IBM 5
#12 Nabil N. Bitar Verizon 5
#12 Neil A. Jacobson Microsoft 5
#12 Brian Oliver Oracle 5
#21 Russell K. Layton, Jr. Velasa Sports 4
#21 Joseph L. Jones Irobot 4
#21 Srivatsan Parthasarathy Microsoft 4
#21 Kyle B. Wheeler Micron 4
#21 Xuan Kong Neurometrix 4
#21 Ian Durrant Zoll Medical 4
#21 Zhixiu Han Bionx Medical Technologies 4
#21 Christopher M. Nolan IBM 4
#21 Avnish Sikka Amazon 4
#21 Rohit Prasad Amazon 4
#21 Alexandre Joseph Buckmelter Forma Therapeutics 4
#21 Joseph Ting Cerevasc 4
#33 Mark Munson Array Biopharma 3
#33 Linda I. Hoffberg-Borghesani Blanding Hovenweep 3
#33 Jingdong Deng IBM 3
#33 Wei Zhang IBM 3
#33 Qin-Fan Zhu Broadcom 3
#33 Lawrence L. Kuo W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. 3
#33 Kevin Wilson Hologic 3
#33 Joseph A. Gardecki The General Hospital 3
#33 D. Jeffrey Lischer Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 3
#33 Tao Hong BOE 3
#33 Daniel I. Harjes Draper Laboratory 3
#33 Ken Yoshiki Franzen Mevion Medical Systems 3
#33 Hong Xiao Verizon 3
#33 John A. MacNeill Conair 3
#33 William S. Yerazunis Mitsubishi Electric 3
#33 Zhiguo Lai Tdk 3
#33 Mark Ledeboer Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 3
#33 Jack Jianxiu Hao Verizon 3

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