Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Sharon, MA ranks #672 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 196 patents from 137 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sharon, MA include The General Hospital, MIT, Merck. That works out to 31.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 137 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ravi Kapur The General Hospital 8
2 Leslie Bromberg MIT 6
3 Xiaoling Chen Merck 5
3 Ivan Viktorovich Efremov Pfizer 5
#5 Michael R. Siracusa Apple 4
#6 Hsuan-Yeh Chang Bidirectional Display 3
#6 Meni Wanunu Northwestern University 3
#6 Phillip Shaltis Kpr U.S. 3
#6 Ravinath Kausik Kadayam Viswanathan Geoservices Equipements 3
#6 Simon Edelhaus Aquantia 3
#11 Brian M. Andresen Merck 2
#11 Steven H. Izen Plexar Associates 2
#11 Anatoly Podpaly 2
#11 Paul C. Castro IBM 2
#11 Vladimir Kostadinov Invensys Systems 2
#11 Mark B. Spitzer Kopin 2
#11 Paul Francis Dixon Laird Technologies 2
#11 Panagiotis Manolios GE 2
#11 Michael Chorev Harvard University 2
#11 Mikhail Fridberg Bounce Imaging 2
#11 James Winkelman Roche Diagnostics Hematology 2
#11 Seungyong Hahn MIT 2
#11 Christopher Buder Covidien Lp 2
#11 Nigel Lee Euclid Discoveries 2
#11 Satish Kaveti Lightlab Imaging 2
#11 Davanum M. Srinivas IBM 2
#11 S. Ananth Karumanchi Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 2
#11 Chahid Kamel Ghaddar 2
#11 Elisha Ziskind Broadcom 2
#11 Joshua Robert Giguere Rhodes Technologies 2
#11 Christopher Zirps Corindus 2
#11 Dan Teven Ab Initio Technology 2
#11 Jun Qi Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 2
#11 Brond Larson Ab Initio Technology 2
#11 Luke M. Slominski E Ink Holdings 2
#11 William Edelman Amsel Medical 2
#37 Shuo Wei Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 1
#37 John Brooks Reece, JR. 1
#37 Jesse Brouhard Catalina Marketing 1
#37 Dalia Yablon ExxonMobil 1
#37 Max Essex Harvard University 1
#37 Jonathan R. Tischler MIT 1
#37 Mark G. Connell 1
#37 Steven Krampf Chestnut Hill Sound 1
#37 Andrew Camilli Harvard University 1
#37 Leonid Winestein Intel 1
#37 Murshed Khandaker Kopin 1
#37 Herbert B. Hechtman Harvard University 1
#37 Joshua Steven Stein Aidance Skincare & Topical Solutions 1
#37 Ryan Fritschy Franklin Sports 1

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