Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Wellesley, MA ranks #596 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 223 patents from 117 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wellesley, MA include AMD, Becton, Dickinson And, Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.. That works out to 7.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 117 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David A. Roberts AMD 12
2 Charles Hwang Becton, Dickinson And 10
3 Yu Zhu Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co. 7
#4 Robert J. Mears Atomera Incorporated 5
#4 Brett A. Miwa Maxim Integrated Products 5
#4 Isaac Ostrovsky Boston Scientific Scimed 5
#4 Zukui Song Bose 5
#8 Maxwell Bogue Wobbleworks 4
#8 Yu Jiang Shanghai Xpt Technology Limited 4
#8 Mark E. Duggan Merck 4
#8 Michel D. Arney Kopin 4
#8 Kenneth C. Anderson Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 4
#8 Michel D. Arney Amgen 4
#8 Kevin Walsh Boston Scientific Scimed 4
#15 Paul E. Glenn Quantum-Si Incorporated 3
#15 David Zahniser Roche Diagnostics Hematology 3
#15 Nikolai D. Begg Covidien Lp 3
#15 Alma Dimnaku Netapp 3
#15 Mark W. Henry RTX (Raytheon) 3
#15 Zhaolin Wang Ra Pharmaceuticals 3
#15 Xi-Tao Wang Bristol-Myers Squibb 3
#15 Lee M. Kaplan The General Hospital 3
#15 Gokhan S. Hotamisligil Harvard University 3
#15 Eve H. Barlow Abb Vie 3
#15 Leonard I. Zon Children'S Medical Center 3
#15 Jeffrey A. Kraemer Cisco 3
#27 Sepehr Mehrabanzad Federated Wireless 2
#27 Michael F. Fallon Intel 2
#27 Tim Lysaght Boston Scientific Scimed 2
#27 Ying Jing Bristol-Myers Squibb 2
#27 Shuai Wu Verizon 2
#27 Margaret A. Shipp Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 2
#27 Vikram Pattanayak Harvard University 2
#27 Steven Bellon Amgen 2
#27 Qun Kevin Fang Sepracor 2
#27 Michael Hamill Axcella Health 2
#27 Arthur Keigler Tel Nexx 2
#27 Yue-Mei Zhang Johnson & Johnson 2
#27 David Ure Irresistible Materials 2
#27 Christopher D. Metcalf Tilera 2
#27 Irving H. Fox Millennium Pharmaceuticals 2
#27 Clifford C. Hoyt Cambridge Research & Instrumentation 2
#27 Wayne A. Marasco Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 2
#27 Krishna Balasubramanian The Mathworks 2
#27 Brian Goldberg Axsun Technologies 2
#46 Jane Hirsh Collegium Pharmaceutical 1
#46 Maria Palasis Boston Scientific Scimed 1
#46 Andrew E. Levin Immunetics 1
#46 Matthew Aprea Apple 1
#46 Kevin M. Monagle IBM 1

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