Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Acton, MA ranks #297 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 492 patents from 251 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Acton, MA include Skyworks Solutions, Micron, IBM.

Showing 1–50 of 251 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Bo Zhou Skyworks Solutions 14
2 Kyle B. Wheeler Micron 13
3 Julian Horn IBM 10
#4 Barry Weitzner Boston Scientific Scimed 9
#5 Sampath Dechu IBM 8
#6 Jian Lin Forma Therapeutics 7
#6 Hailing Wang Skyworks Solutions 7
#6 Srivatsan Parthasarathy Microsoft 7
#6 Wei Zhang IBM 7
#10 Rohit Prasad Amazon 6
#10 Neeraj Asthana IBM 6
#10 Tian Gu MIT 6
#13 Kirill K. Pankratov Symbotic 5
#13 Alexandre Megretski Nanosemi 5
#13 Gary Kappel Boston Scientific Scimed 5
#13 Jingdong Deng IBM 5
#17 Matthew Naples Conair 4
#17 Alexandre Joseph Buckmelter Forma Therapeutics 4
#17 Ben Hertz Allen Medical Systems 4
#17 John A. MacNeill Conair 4
#17 Jay Jie Shi Cadenza Innovation 4
#17 Anil Jeswani Ledvance Gmbh 4
#17 Teck Ping Sim E Ink Holdings 4
#17 Sandhya Pillalamarri Insulet 4
#17 David R. Oran Cisco 4
#17 Evgeniya Freydina Siemens Water Technologies 4
#17 Zhi Han The Mathworks 4
#17 Zhixiu Han Bionx Medical Technologies 4
#17 Tao Hong BOE 4
#17 Paul Dormitzer Intel 4
#31 Choung-Houng Lai Certainteed 3
#31 Scott E. Brechbiel Boston Scientific Scimed 3
#31 Jeffrey C. Marrion Allen Medical Systems 3
#31 James C. Anderson HP 3
#31 Xuan Kong Neurometrix 3
#31 Kevin Wilson Hologic 3
#31 Eun Seok Gil 3-D Matrix 3
#31 Joel S. Emer Intel 3
#31 Xuebing Zhang Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co. 3
#31 Minghua Wang Forma Therapeutics 3
#31 Robert Adams Global E-Dentity 3
#31 Joseph Ting Cerevasc 3
#31 Mehmet Aydinlik Acacia Communications 3
#31 Mark Munson Array Biopharma 3
#31 Hakho Lee The General Hospital 3
#31 William T. Freeman MIT 3
#31 Stuart D. Sandberg Commscope Technologies 3
#31 Edward R. Damiano Beta Bionics 3
#31 Jason O'CONNOR Insulet 3
#31 Steven Hart Rai Strategic Holdings 3

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