Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Wakefield, MA ranks #1,677 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 78 patents from 42 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wakefield, MA include Symbotic, Philips Lighting Holding B.V., Zoll Medical. That works out to 2.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–42 of 42 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 John G. Lert, Jr. Symbotic 6
2 Peter Swai Philips Lighting Holding B.V. 5
3 Melissa M. Dascoli Zoll Medical 4
3 Eric D. Blom Hansa Medical Products 4
3 Natarajan Thirumurugan Osram Sylvania 4
3 Phillip Clark Millipore 4
#7 Solomon D. Kattar Merck 3
#7 Jon F. Edd The General Hospital 3
#9 Christopher W.J. McChalicher Cj Cheiljedang 2
#9 William Tao Shi Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 2
#9 Andrew Nanopoulos Pivot Solutions 2
#9 Richard Schalek Harvard University 2
#9 Timothy M. Pastore Microscan Systems 2
#9 Puminun Vasinajindakaw University Of Massachusetts 2
#9 Marc Laverdiere Entegris 2
#9 Thomas A. Snellgrove IBM 2
#9 Patrick R. Conlon Mersana Therapeutics 2
#9 Gavin MacBeath Harvard University 2
#9 David Darrell Miller E Ink Holdings 2
#20 Ken Beaudoin Smith & Nephew 1
#20 Arezki Boudif Emd Millipore 1
#20 Daniel J. Burns Z-Medica 1
#20 Vittorio Bucchieri Verizon 1
#20 Gregory Kenny The First Years 1
#20 Eric Hyman Cosco Management 1
#20 David R. Widomski W.L. Gore & Associates Gmbh 1
#20 John Ryan Kerrigan Novartis Ag 1
#20 Samuel Cunningham Nelson RTX (Raytheon) 1
#20 Colin S. Whelan RTX (Raytheon) 1
#20 Stephen D. Shoap MIT 1
#20 Christopher DEVLIN Microline Surgical 1
#20 Richard X. Xu Ibasis 1
#20 Alesandro Cucci Standex International 1
#20 Thomas A. Williams Lam 1
#20 Jesse Yoder 1
#20 Nathan J. Maxfield Verizon 1
#20 Ian Tinkler Keurig Green Mountain 1
#20 Gerard Libby Cornell University 1
#20 Josh Goldlust Plumchoice 1
#20 David Morrell Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 1
#20 Steve Lepke Cosco Management 1
#20 Allen Stone 1

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