Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Needham, MA ranks #474 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 278 patents from 153 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Needham, MA include Merck, Sharkninja Operating, Thermochem Recovery International. That works out to 8.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 153 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael D. Altman Merck 8
2 Owen R. Johnson Sharkninja Operating 7
2 Ravi Chandran Thermochem Recovery International 7
2 Robert T. Peters Bioverativ Therapeutics 7
#5 Kun Liu Merck 5
#5 Hairuo Peng Biogen Ma 5
#5 Jialin Zhao Analog Devices International Unlimited 5
#5 David A. Schatz Witricity 5
#5 John Michael Ellis Merck 5
#5 Anandan Palani Merck 5
#5 Gregg M. Duthaler E Ink Holdings 5
#5 Richard L. Miller Manta Devices 5
#13 David L. Carnahan Nanolab 4
#13 Rahul K. Dhanda T2 Biosystems 4
#13 Yongxin Han Merck 4
#13 Morgan Hays Layer3 Tv 4
#13 Matthew P. Roberts Meltz 4
#13 Adnan Sahin Emc Ip Holding Company 4
#13 Paul Sabin Protonex Technology 4
#20 Darren Mullen Kenwood Limited 3
#20 David Ofer Camx Power 3
#20 Matthew G. Bursavich Morphic Therapeutic 3
#20 Binyuan Sun Merck 3
#20 Stephen R. Springer Microsoft 3
#20 Charles N. Serhan Brigham and Women's Hospital 3
#20 John Canosa Ptc 3
#20 Shyh-Yuan H. Hwang Badger Licensing 3
#20 Akin Akinc Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 3
#29 Gianfranco Zaccai Herman Miller 2
#29 Lee Core Arsenal Medical 2
#29 Scott Howard Davis Broadcom 2
#29 Brian Levine The Nielsen Company (Us) 2
#29 Vito J. Palombella Infinity Pharmaceuticals 2
#29 Peter Hutchinson Sharkninja Operating 2
#29 Richard M. Ng Intuit 2
#29 Robert Mungovan Aware 2
#29 David S. Barrett Irobot 2
#29 Richard A. Silva Immunogen 2
#29 Josep Miquel Jornet 2
#29 Harry J. Schechter Schechter Tech 2
#29 David Jalbert Exceptional Ip Holdings 2
#29 Nicole Eden Sanom Medtronic 2
#29 Joseph H. Silverman Ntru Cryptosystems 2
#29 Peter E. Hammer Children'S Medical Center 2
#29 Steven A. Kates Lakewood Amedex 2
#29 Steve Han Philip Morris Products S.A. 2
#29 Andrew Han Veeva Systems 2
#29 Craig A. Dunbar Tarveda Therapeutics 2
#29 Behnoosh Tavakoli Whoop 2
#29 Tao Yu Analog Devices 2

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