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Wellesley, MA 2017

265 patents  ·  140 inventors  ·  9.0/1k pop.

Ranked #491 of 42,209 cities Top 2%

Wellesley, MA ranks #491 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 265 patents from 140 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wellesley, MA include AMD, Layer3 Tv, Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.. That works out to 9.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 140 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David A. Roberts AMD 11
1 Phil Sutherland Layer3 Tv 11
3 Yu Zhu Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co. 8
#4 Kristy M. Wood Modernatx 7
#4 Isaac Ostrovsky Boston Scientific Scimed 7
#4 Charles Hwang Becton, Dickinson And 7
#7 Kenneth W. Bair Burroughs Wellcome 6
#8 Leonard I. Zon Children'S Medical Center 5
#8 Mark E. Duggan Merck 5
#8 David Zahniser Roche Diagnostics Hematology 5
#8 Roger S. Zimmerman 3Play Media 5
#12 Yue-Mei Zhang Johnson & Johnson 4
#12 Wayne A. Marasco Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 4
#12 Donald W. Kufe Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 4
#12 Michael Hamill Axcella Health 4
#12 Nikolai D. Begg Covidien Lp 4
#12 Jonathan D. London The Boston Beer 4
#18 Charles W. Selvidge Mentor Graphics 3
#18 Yu Jiang Shanghai Xpt Technology Limited 3
#18 Robert J. Mears Atomera Incorporated 3
#18 Kevin Walsh Boston Scientific Scimed 3
#18 Michael G. Hluchyj Motorola 3
#18 Vadim Dudkin Merck 3
#18 Saurabh Saha Biomed Valley Discoveries 3
#18 Jane Hirsh Collegium Pharmaceutical 3
#18 Thomas Wilde Bayer Cropscience 3
#18 Douglas B. Jacoby Morphotek 3
#28 Kevin M. Monagle IBM 2
#28 J. Roy Pottle American Messaging Services 2
#28 Nathaniel M. Sims The General Hospital 2
#28 Stephen A. Mendes Emc Ip Holding Company 2
#28 Jun Zhuang Cisco 2
#28 Lee M. Kaplan The General Hospital 2
#28 Kevin G. Connors AT&T 2
#28 Matthew J. Aprea E Ink Holdings 2
#28 Douglas McLean Gordon Intralinks 2
#28 Jay R. Luly Abbott 2
#28 R. John Collier Harvard University 2
#28 Alma Dimnaku Netapp 2
#28 Arthur Keigler Tel Nexx 2
#28 Maxwell Bogue Wobbleworks 2
#28 Brett A. Miwa Maxim Integrated Products 2
#28 Christopher Wargo Entegris 2
#28 Umamaheswar Reddy Akamai Technologies 2
#28 Zhinan Xia Alexion Pharmaceuticals 2
#28 Richard K. Holman 24M Technologies 2
#28 Shuai Wu Verizon 2
#28 Harith Rajagopalan Fractyl Health 2
#49 Michael N. Burdenko Polaroid 1
#49 Matthew S. Kressy — 1

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