Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Brookline, MA ranks #119 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 984 patents from 458 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Brookline, MA include IBM, Xyleco, Boston Scientific Scimed. That works out to 15.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 458 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ali Khakifirooz IBM 124
2 Marshall Medoff Xyleco 32
3 Michael S. H. Chu Boston Scientific Scimed 14
#4 Dirk Robert Englund MIT 10
#4 David Arthur Berry Seres Therapeutics 10
#6 Daniel Kestenbaum Sharkninja Operating 9
#6 Alexander Pasternak Merck 9
#8 John MacLean Lycera 8
#8 William F. Ganong, III Microsoft 8
#10 James F. Cameron Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 7
#10 Andrew Jones Manta Devices 7
#10 Michelle R. Machacek Merck 7
#10 Sava Cvek Stylex 7
#14 John E. Booker The Mathworks 6
#14 Joseph L. Charest Draper Laboratory 6
#14 Blair T. Lapointe Merck 6
#14 Gordon J. Freeman Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 6
#14 Peter Schmitt Meadox Medicals 6
#14 Scott A. Bortoff Mitsubishi Electric 6
#20 Svetlana B. Radovanov Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 5
#20 Benjamin V. Hinkle The Mathworks 5
#20 Dan Aharoni Emc 5
#20 Edith Mathiowitz Brown University 5
#20 Ming Qian Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 5
#20 Max Edward Metral PayPal 5
#20 Alexandr Veprinsky Emc 5
#20 Michael H. Reutershan Merck 5
#20 Sandip Bose Schlumberger Technology 5
#20 Ashok K. Sood Magnolia Optical Technologies 5
#20 Amnon Naamad Emc 5
#20 Jeffrey B. Miller Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials Cmp Holdings 5
#20 Dennis Buckley Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 5
#20 Daniel Jerome Sims The Gillette Company 5
#34 Michael Zahniser Roche Diagnostics Hematology 4
#34 Sergey Simanovsky Analogic 4
#34 Gaurav D. Mehta Verizon 4
#34 Natalya D. Bodyak Mersana Therapeutics 4
#34 Geoff Otto Pacific Biosciences Of California 4
#34 Eric T. Romeo Merck 4
#34 Trevor Ehret Ppc Broadband 4
#34 Matthew Christopher Merck 4
#34 David C. Dalgarno Ariad Pharmaceuticals 4
#34 Tong Chen IBM 4
#34 Ali Kermani Razor Usa 4
#34 Joel L. Dawson Eta Devices 4
#34 Johanna Lisa Dwyer Blackberry Limited 4
#34 Arlene H. Sharpe Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 4
#34 Takahisa Kato Canon 4
#34 Francesc Xavier Fradera Llinas Merck 4
#34 Timothy P. Butler Tego 4

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