Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Needham, MA ranks #581 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 264 patents from 132 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Needham, MA include Sharkninja Operating, Oracle, Merck. That works out to 8.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 132 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Owen R. Johnson Sharkninja Operating 9
2 Alex Kogan Oracle 7
2 Yongxin Han Merck 7
#4 Robert T. Peters Bioverativ Therapeutics 6
#4 Pasi Janne Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 6
#4 Marc S. Weinberg Draper Laboratory 6
#4 Adnan Sahin Emc Ip Holding Company 6
#4 Michael D. Altman Merck 6
#9 Ravi Chandran Thermochem Recovery International 5
#9 Steve Han Philip Morris Products S.A. 5
#9 David Smith Rai Strategic Holdings 5
#9 Kun Liu Merck 5
#9 Mao Yin Mersana Therapeutics 5
#9 Neal Ennis Brenner Xl Hybrids 5
#15 Nicholas G. Laidlaw Voicify 4
#15 Eliezer Peli Schepens Eye Research Institute 4
#15 Colin Taylor Mosgrove Bose 4
#15 Alyssa M. Larson Eagle Biologics 4
#15 Steven A. Kates Lakewood Amedex 4
#15 Ashok Bakul Patel The Gillette Company 4
#15 Eric H. Silver Imagine Scientific 4
#22 Lee Core Arsenal Medical 3
#22 Richard A. Silva Immunogen 3
#22 Scott Howard Davis Broadcom 3
#22 Andrew Miles Wallace Affera 3
#22 Jialin Zhao Analog Devices International Unlimited 3
#22 David Ofer Camx Power 3
#22 Andrew Han Veeva Systems 3
#22 Beth Tuck Coravin 3
#22 Marc D. Friedman Avedro 3
#22 Richard Mathias Sharkninja Operating 3
#22 Isaac J. Krauss Brandeis University 3
#22 Richard L. Miller Manta Devices 3
#34 Gregg M. Duthaler E Ink Holdings 2
#34 Russell L. Tedrake Toyota 2
#34 Jacob Mark ExxonMobil 2
#34 Tao Yu Analog Devices 2
#34 Kenneth Focht Becton, Dickinson And 2
#34 Kevin Sprott Syros Pharmaceuticals 2
#34 Kevin Young Cynosure 2
#34 Charles N. Serhan Brigham and Women's Hospital 2
#34 Rahul K. Dhanda T2 Biosystems 2
#34 Jonathan Glickman Unknown 2
#34 George Grubner Kings Systems 2
#34 Roger Hart Amgen 2
#34 Edward J. Morgan Skyhook Wireless 2
#34 Brian Levine The Nielsen Company (Us) 2
#34 Richard M. Pinti RTX (Raytheon) 2
#34 Michael S. Allen Analog Devices 2
#34 Alina Silina Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 2

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