Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Maine ranks #41 among US states for total patents filed in 2017, with 747 patents from 445 inventors across 124 cities. On a per-capita basis that is 0.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a standard benchmark for comparing state-level R&D intensity.

Top Cities in Maine 2017

Rank City Patents Inventors
#1 Fryeburg, ME 186 103
#2 Portland, ME 45 28
#3 Falmouth, ME 33 15
#4 Kennebunk, ME 26 12
#5 York, ME 25 12
#6 Scarborough, ME 17 13
#7 Rockport, ME 15 4
#8 South Portland, ME 14 10
#9 Gray, ME 14 5
#10 Wells, ME 13 5
#11 Kennebunkport, ME 13 4
#12 Sullivan, ME 12 1
#13 Saco, ME 12 8
#14 Oxford, ME 12 2
#15 Yarmouth, ME 11 7
#16 Limerick, ME 10 3
#17 Bangor, ME 10 6
#18 Cape Elizabeth, ME 9 8
#19 South Berwick, ME 9 5
#20 Boothbay Harbor, ME 8 2
#21 Old Town, ME 8 7
#22 Gorham, ME 8 7
#23 Orono, ME 7 7
#24 Bar Harbor, ME 7 6
#25 Frye Island, ME 6 6

Top Inventors in Maine 2017

Rank Inventor City Company Patents
1 Christine Zimmer Fryeburg Top Knobs Usa 17
2 Gregory F. Jacobs Sullivan Certainteed 12
3 Jeffrey Gniadek Oxford Senko Advanced Components 11
#4 Richard S. Graf Gray IBM 10
#4 Paul M. Lutjen Kennebunkport RTX (Raytheon) 10
#4 Timothy M. Davis Kennebunk RTX (Raytheon) 10
#7 Roland Gendron Limerick Theravance 8
#7 Harsh M. Trivedi Fryeburg Colgate-Palmolive 8
#7 Sunil Agnihotri Falmouth Banner Life Sciences 8
#10 Jonathan Goering York Albany Engineered Composites 7
#11 W. Davis Lee Rockport Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 6
#11 Richard K. Hayford York RTX (Raytheon) 6
#11 Frank Sinclair Hartland Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 6
#14 Jason Currier Portland Talus 5
#14 Christopher W. Strock Boothbay Harbor RTX (Raytheon) 5
#14 Daniel J. Walsh Wells IBM 5
#14 Brian Bloch Fryeburg Colgate-Palmolive 5
#14 Steve Johnson Phippsburg Honeywell 5
#19 Dave G. Newport Windham Center Thermochem Recovery International 4
#19 John T. Raffle Rockport Electrocore 4
#19 Tianjian Huang Fryeburg Henkel Ip & Holding Gmbh 4
#19 Brian Duguay Berwick RTX (Raytheon) 4
#19 James G. Peterson Yarmouth Sandisk Technologies 4
#19 John Berns Lancaster Saco Alarm.Com Incorporated 4
#19 Jake Cowperthwaite New Limerick Ucb Biopharma Srl 4

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