Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Wakefield, MA ranks #1,441 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 91 patents from 52 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wakefield, MA include Philips Lighting Holding B.V., IBM, Merck. That works out to 3.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 52 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Peter Swai Philips Lighting Holding B.V. 7
2 Thomas A. Snellgrove IBM 6
3 Solomon D. Kattar Merck 4
3 Daniel J. Burns Z-Medica 4
#5 Patrick R. Conlon Mersana Therapeutics 3
#5 Tom Miller Syros Pharmaceuticals 3
#5 John G. Lert, Jr. Symbotic 3
#5 Phillip Clark Millipore 3
#5 Bradford Thomas Kolsky Philips Lighting Holding B.V. 3
#5 Ian Tinkler Keurig Green Mountain 3
#5 William Robert Entley Versum Materials Us 3
#12 William Tao Shi Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 2
#12 Sripati Sah Persimmon Technologies 2
#12 David Morrell Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 2
#12 Robert Buffone Yottaa 2
#12 Kathleen Seyb Ra Pharmaceuticals 2
#12 Vittorio Bucchieri Verizon 2
#12 Ken Beaudoin Smith & Nephew 2
#12 Eric D. Blom Hansa Medical Products 2
#20 Tyler Rockwell Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 1
#20 Peter Davis Cisco 1
#20 Jennifer O'Neil Thermo Fisher 1
#20 Melissa M. Dascoli Zoll Medical 1
#20 Kiran Kumar Tadakamalla Intralinks 1
#20 Sybren Sijbrandij Carl Zeiss Microscopy Gmbh 1
#20 William J. Watt Amazon 1
#20 Joshua Goldlust Plumchoice 1
#20 Richard Alan Goloski Amazon 1
#20 Lydia Gregoret Lantos Technologies 1
#20 Helen Elizabeth Vanbenschoten Lockheed Martin 1
#20 Allen Stone 1
#20 Dennis Sousa Transmedics 1
#20 Thiru Murugan Ledvance Gmbh 1
#20 Eric Hyman Cosco Management 1
#20 Marc Laverdiere Entegris 1
#20 Gregory Walter HILLER Pfizer 1
#20 Timothy M. Pastore Microscan Systems 1
#20 Jeffrey M. Crump Hitachi Data Systems 1
#20 Natasha Kreder Xyleco 1
#20 Sevag Minas Zoboyan Analogic 1
#20 Jeremy R. DUVALL The Broad Institute 1
#20 Timothy MacLean Bedford Systems 1
#20 Carl Zwicker Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 1
#20 William Glover Genetics Research 1
#20 David Darrell Miller E Ink Holdings 1
#20 Bradford A. Jackvony Verizon 1
#20 Gavin MacBeath Harvard University 1
#20 Kevin Chow Oracle 1
#20 Steven Lepke Ciba Corning Diagnostics 1
#20 Kevin R. Maschhoff Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 1

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