Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Somerville, MA ranks #166 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 724 patents from 421 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Somerville, MA include Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Vecna Robotics, Cvs Pharmacy. That works out to 8.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 421 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Alfredo C. Castro Infinity Pharmaceuticals 10
1 Daniel Theobald Vecna Robotics 10
3 Bennett P. Daley Cvs Pharmacy 9
#4 Catherine A. Evans Infinity Pharmaceuticals 8
#4 Qing Tan Zoll Medical 8
#4 Guy M. Danner E Ink Holdings 8
#7 Timothy Andrew Wagner Highland Instruments 7
#7 Matthew Scot Rosen Hyperfine Research 7
#7 Anuj Madan Skyworks Solutions 7
#7 Kristin A. Witherspoon IBM 7
#7 Andrew J. Campanella Witricity 7
#12 Upma Sharma Arsenal Medical 6
#12 Richard Anthony Zuckerman Clearmotion 6
#12 Andre Lescarbeau Infinity Pharmaceuticals 6
#15 Bryan Lochman Panasonic 5
#15 Mihai Duduta 24M Technologies 5
#15 Gregory Paul Ramsperger Sonos 5
#15 Frederic Durand MIT 5
#15 Romain Charles Andre Prioul Schlumberger Technology 5
#20 Abby Getman Nasdaq 4
#20 Christopher Everett Thorne Boston Dynamics 4
#20 Erik Nygren Akamai Technologies 4
#20 Anatole Khesin 3Play Media 4
#20 Kai Cao Alibaba 4
#20 Holly G. Gates E Ink Holdings 4
#20 Josue A. Goss Harvard University 4
#20 Daniel A. Snyder Infinity Pharmaceuticals 4
#20 James Bourassa The Johns Hopkins University 4
#20 John Work Mc10 4
#20 Anand Satyamoorthy Mediatek Singapore Pte. 4
#20 Matthew H. Daniels Merck 4
#20 Jason Livingston Formlabs 4
#20 Peter Mason Regeneron Pharmaceuticals 4
#20 Indu T. Bharathan Millennium Pharmaceuticals 4
#20 David Meiri Emc Ip Holding Company 4
#20 Christopher S. Antunes 3Play Media 4
#20 Rajeshri Ganesh Karki Novartis Ag 4
#20 Angelika Fretzen Ironwood Pharmaceuticals 4
#39 Marten Van Dijk Emc 3
#39 Michael Charles Hewitt Sunovion Pharmaceuticals 3
#39 Julian Lemus Top Flight Technologies 3
#39 Kenneth R. Crounse E Ink Holdings 3
#39 Emery M. Ku Bose 3
#39 Morgan Brophy Alcyone Lifesciences 3
#39 Andrew K. Hollett Boston Scientific Scimed 3
#39 Christopher A. Evans Microsoft 3
#39 Eric H. Weiss Service Management Group 3
#39 Gary Palladino Sharkninja Operating 3
#39 Gaston de los Reyes Spf Innovations 3
#39 Benjamin Tsu Sklaroff Markforged 3

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