Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Worcester, MA ranks #855 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 155 patents from 102 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Worcester, MA include Bose, IBM, RTX (Raytheon). That works out to 0.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 102 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jeffery R. Vautin Bose 7
1 Christian Mueller IBM 7
3 Zissis A. Dardas RTX (Raytheon) 5
#4 Guangping Gao University of Pennsylvania 4
#4 Jin Wuk Sung Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 4
#4 Krenar Komoni Tive 4
#4 Timothy A. Riley Nektar Therapeutics 4
#8 Jennifer M. Perez Abb Vie 3
#8 Laura E. Christakis Boston Scientific Scimed 3
#8 Adrian T. VanderSpek Exagrid Systems 3
#8 Alesia Tringale Emc Ip Holding Company 3
#12 Michelle Fater Boston Scientific Scimed 2
#12 Ronald F. Vitaris Smith & Nephew 2
#12 Robert P. Wierzbicki Emc 2
#12 Adrian D. Hobson Abb Vie 2
#12 Alvin Chardon Microsoft 2
#12 Stephen E. Fox Saint-Gobain Abrasives 2
#12 David J. Fustino Bose 2
#12 David C. Ihle Abb Vie 2
#12 Marko Popovic Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2
#12 Alexander B. Sigalov Signablok 2
#12 David J. Livingston Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 2
#12 Ramanujam Vedantham Saint-Gobain Abrasifs 2
#12 Valentin Gapontsev Ipg Photonics 2
#12 David Lieblich Analogic 2
#12 Jay Pupecki Bose 2
#12 Diane M. Strong Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2
#12 Nandakumar Selvaraj Vital Connect 2
#29 Charles D. Flanagan 1
#29 Gerald F. Gallo 1
#29 Min Wan AbbVie 1
#29 Peter Thomas Launie, Jr. Keurig Green Mountain 1
#29 Dmitriy MIFTAKHUTDINOV Ipg Photonics 1
#29 Martin Szyk Emd Millipore 1
#29 Elisabeth Doyle Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 1
#29 Jowoon Chong Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1
#29 Corey Majeika Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1
#29 Anthony Possemato Cell Signaling Technology 1
#29 Nichole A. Roy Abb Vie 1
#29 Julienne C. Regele Saint-Gobain Abrasifs 1
#29 Adam P. BUJNOWSKI Saint-Gobain Abrasifs 1
#29 Robert K. Hickman Abb Vie 1
#29 Kevin Reilly Deltrol Controls 1
#29 Michael E. Reck Webstone Company 1
#29 Russell Couturier IBM 1
#29 Allen R. Padwa 1
#29 Kara Levine Emd Millipore 1
#29 Adam C. Broders Bose 1
#29 Gary R. Ostroff Alpha-Beta Technology 1
#29 Brandon Michael Sanders Honda Motor Co. 1

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