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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Worcester, MA ranks #781 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 173 patents from 118 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Worcester, MA include University of Pennsylvania, Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials, Emc. That works out to 0.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 118 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Guangping Gao University of Pennsylvania 8
2 Jin Wuk Sung Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 6
3 Robert P. Wierzbicki Emc 5
3 Christian Mueller IBM 5
#5 Jennifer M. Perez Abb Vie 4
#5 Benjamin C. Lippitt Bose 4
#5 Nicholas Leventis Aerogel Technologies 4
#5 Dan Wang Foxconn 4
#9 Chun-Ting Chen Healthstream Taiwan 3
#9 Gary R. Ostroff Alpha-Beta Technology 3
#11 Srinivasan Vedantham University Of Massachusetts 2
#11 Laura Elizabeth Firstenberg Boston Scientific Scimed 2
#11 Timothy A. Riley Nektar Therapeutics 2
#11 Richard McDuffie Helen Of Troy Limited 2
#11 Dimitrios P. Bakllas Cold Chain Technologies 2
#11 Brian D. Amos Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 2
#11 Nandakumar Selvaraj Vital Connect 2
#11 Valentin Gapontsev Ipg Photonics 2
#11 Jeffery R. Vautin Bose 2
#11 Endre Tamas Wallrust 2
#11 Gregory P. Prokopowicz Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 2
#11 Asem Othman Veridium Ip Limited 2
#11 Shu-Wei Yang Merck 2
#11 Christopher J. Mulhearn Bose 2
#11 John James Boyle Draper Laboratory 2
#11 Warren James Ellis Bluezone Ip Holding 2
#11 Brett Ponsler Irobot Defense Holdings 2
#11 Kristen Billiar Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2
#11 John Amann Zoll Medical 2
#30 Ernesto Soto University Of Massachusetts 1
#30 Halit Bener Suay Carnegie Mellon University 1
#30 Zachary Kennedy University Of Massachusetts 1
#30 Yi-Lung Wang Vivascan 1
#30 Jason J. Wailgum GE 1
#30 Zissis A. Dardas RTX (Raytheon) 1
#30 Michele L. R. Heffernan Sepracor 1
#30 Craig Peterson Wagner Spray Tech 1
#30 Allan R. Case Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics 1
#30 James Eakin 3M 1
#30 Alexander Lagadinos University Of Massachusetts 1
#30 Juanita McLachlan University Of Massachusetts 1
#30 George Paul Gumbrell Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 1
#30 Hakan Ozadam University Of Massachusetts 1
#30 Sanjay Ram University Of Massachusetts 1
#30 Rose Shao Seagate Technology 1
#30 Keith Sutton Emc 1
#30 Richmond Appiah, Jr. 1
#30 Fred Woehr Dresser-Rand 1
#30 Antoniya T. Statelova Ebay 1
#30 Greogory P. Prokopowicz Globalfoundries 1

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