Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Melrose, MA ranks #989 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 138 patents from 68 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Melrose, MA include Sharkninja Operating, Emc, Clearmotion. That works out to 4.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 68 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Joyce Chien Tu Sharkninja Operating 11
2 Kevin D. Bowers Emc 8
3 Marco Giovanardi Clearmotion 6
3 Prakash Narayan Govindan Gradiant 6
#5 Ming Ji Maquet (Suzhou) Co. 5
#6 Man Nguyen Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 4
#6 Andrew J. McRiner Dart Neuroscience, (Cayman) 4
#6 Maureen E. Strode IBM 4
#9 Lizbeth Celeste Deselm Merck 3
#9 Andrew F. Roberts Ab Initio Technology 3
#9 Arijit Banerjee GE 3
#9 Shaun Logan Oracle 3
#9 Monica A. Serban Trustees Of Tufts College 3
#9 Brian D. Musselman Ionsense 3
#15 Gregory H. Vander Rhodes Thermo Scientific Portable Analytical Instruments 2
#15 Scott Lefton Dirac Solutions 2
#15 Jason Tucker-Schwartz MIT 2
#15 Pericles Calias Shire Human Genetic Therapies 2
#15 William C. McQuaid Ivenix 2
#15 Magnus P. Ronn Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals 2
#15 Michael C. Kozlowski 6K 2
#15 Alexander L. Watters Harvard University 2
#15 Tony Yip Intralinks 2
#15 Perry J. Spero Silicon Laboratories 2
#15 Makhlouf Redjdal 6K 2
#15 Matthew Mackey Eisai R&D Management Co. 2
#15 Christopher Ludlow Mide Technology 2
#15 Anna Borodovsky Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 2
#15 Dan Sexton Athera Biotechnologies Ab 2
#15 Agnes Csilla Domotor Gem Co. 2
#15 Steven Richard Witowski Bristol-Myers Squibb 2
#15 Jonathan Stahl Bomag Gmbh 2
#33 Abdelghani Achab Merck 1
#33 Michael BANOS Telenav 1
#33 R. Daniel Ferguson Physical Sciences 1
#33 James A. Wilkie C.R. Bard 1
#33 Perry Calias Eyegate Pharmaceuticals 1
#33 Marvin Ryou G.I. Windows 1
#33 William R. Breen Nightingale 1
#33 Fupeng Ma Novartis Ag 1
#33 Paul D. Lucas Mks Instruments 1
#33 Lynne Jameson-Meehan Hologic 1
#33 Molly Lara Flexman Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 1
#33 Erfan Soltanmohammadi Kla-Tencor 1
#33 John Joyal Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals 1
#33 Geoffrey Y. Smith Keurig Green Mountain 1
#33 Mykhailo Tymchenko Lightmatter 1
#33 Stephen Capistron Pioneer Surgical Technology 1
#33 Jonathan Matthew Bond Affera 1
#33 Aaron Challenner Amazon 1

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