Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Needham, MA ranks #536 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 243 patents from 130 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Needham, MA include Merck, Thermochem Recovery International, Xl Hybrids. That works out to 7.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 130 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael D. Altman Merck 9
2 Ravi Chandran Thermochem Recovery International 8
3 Neal Ennis Brenner Xl Hybrids 6
3 Yongxin Han Merck 6
#5 Adnan Sahin Emc Ip Holding Company 5
#5 Martin J. Sklar Ablacor Medical 5
#5 Owen R. Johnson Sharkninja Operating 5
#5 Hairuo Peng Biogen Ma 5
#9 Mark Borowsky The General Hospital 4
#9 Robert T. Peters Bioverativ Therapeutics 4
#9 Kenneth Focht Becton, Dickinson And 4
#9 David Jalbert Exceptional Ip Holdings 4
#13 Don M. Boroson MIT 3
#13 Steve Han Philip Morris Products S.A. 3
#13 John Sherry Boston Scientific Scimed 3
#13 Richard A. Silva Immunogen 3
#13 Peter Hutchinson Sharkninja Operating 3
#13 David Smith Rai Strategic Holdings 3
#13 Richard L. Miller Manta Devices 3
#13 Juan Li Avaya 3
#13 Brian A. Murch Sealed Air Corporation (Us) 3
#13 Alex Kogan Oracle 3
#13 Misha Zelikov Hytrust 3
#13 Kevin Sprott Syros Pharmaceuticals 3
#13 Liem Vu Boston Scientific Scimed 3
#13 Marc D. Friedman Avedro 3
#13 Charles N. Serhan Brigham and Women's Hospital 3
#28 Marc V. Gorenstein Waters Technologies 2
#28 Stephen R. Springer Microsoft 2
#28 H. Frederick Bowman MIT 2
#28 Monty Krieger MIT 2
#28 Richard Mathias Sharkninja Operating 2
#28 Ajay Ahuja Tepha 2
#28 Lee Core Arsenal Medical 2
#28 Marc S. Weinberg Draper Laboratory 2
#28 Zhecan Wang Ivani 2
#28 Gianfranco Zaccai Herman Miller 2
#28 Erik Bator Ab Initio Technology 2
#28 Pasi Janne Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 2
#28 David S. Barrett Irobot 2
#28 Michael Sullivan Samsung 2
#28 Edward J. Morgan Skyhook Wireless 2
#28 Kun Liu Merck 2
#28 Steven Balk Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 2
#28 Craig A. Dunbar Tarveda Therapeutics 2
#28 Harry J. Schechter Schechter Tech 2
#28 Qinglin Pu Merck 2
#28 Paul Sabin Protonex Technology 2
#28 S. Ken Tanaka Paratek Pharmaceuticals 2
#28 Vladimir Vayner Teradyne 2

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