Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Reading, MA ranks #989 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 138 patents from 74 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Reading, MA include Johnson & Johnson, Amazon, Merck. That works out to 5.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 74 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Timothy G. Dietz Johnson & Johnson 12
2 Parris S. Wellman Amazon 9
3 Alan B. Northrup Merck 7
#4 Kevin Bourque Tc1 5
#4 Yibo Liu Polycom 5
#4 Ulysses Gilchrist Brooks Automation Gmbh 5
#4 Matthew A. Morton RTX (Raytheon) 5
#8 Jeffrey P. Ciavarri Millennium Pharmaceuticals 4
#8 Lori Anne Neely T2 Biosystems 4
#10 Thomas J. Brukilacchio Innovations In Optics 3
#10 John M. McCoy Genetics Institute 3
#10 Angela Norton Shire Human Genetic Therapies 3
#10 Paul J. Murphy Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 3
#14 Brian C. Wadell Teradyne 2
#14 Gregory R. Schulz Bayer Healthcare 2
#14 William Ziegler American Power Conversion 2
#14 Brent Marsden Covidien Lp 2
#14 Richard J. Looby Lantheus Medical Imaging 2
#14 Andrew J. Campbell Boston Scientific Scimed 2
#14 Stephen Botzko Polycom 2
#14 Amy Ripka Hydra Biosciences 2
#14 Dorian Jack Spero Ford 2
#23 William Kyle Nicholas Proprietary Limited 1
#23 Richard Higgins Ceramem 1
#23 Hian Kai Kwa Locus Robotics 1
#23 Henry C. Marsh, Jr. T Cell Sciences 1
#23 Peter A. Swett Appollo Wind Technologies 1
#23 Nicole Nichols New England Biolabs 1
#23 Jan-Pleun Lens GE 1
#23 Marc Philip Ortins The Gillette Company 1
#23 Mark R. Jones Mevion Medical Systems 1
#23 George R. Watchko Parker-Hannifin 1
#23 Marc Guyott Microsoft 1
#23 David L. Bonnett Fenwal 1
#23 Xiang-Yang Tan Pfizer 1
#23 Mark Cronin-Golomb Tufts University 1
#23 Garth Benedict Aruba Networks 1
#23 Rebecca Beaman Netapp 1
#23 W. Terry Rawlins Physical Sciences 1
#23 Mark Michelman Seventh Sense Biosystems 1
#23 Vivek Shah Applied Materials 1
#23 Denise O'Hara Genetics Institute 1
#23 Kevin J. Clarke Oracle 1
#23 Michael C. Bradford Tenneco Automotive Operating Company 1
#23 Willem Kools Millipore 1
#23 James R. Hewitt Sharkninja Operating 1
#23 Dmitri Prikhodko Skyworks Solutions 1
#23 Peter Strack Merck 1
#23 Todd Beaupre Depuy Ireland Unlimited 1
#23 Chester L. Bejtlich, III Entegris 1

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