Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Reading, MA ranks #965 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 160 patents from 70 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Reading, MA include Berkshire Grey Operating Company, Cole Haan, Johnson & Johnson. That works out to 6.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 70 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Thomas Allen Berkshire Grey Operating Company 36
2 Kyle Jenkins Cole Haan 12
3 Timothy G. Dietz Johnson & Johnson 6
3 Ulysses Gilchrist Brooks Automation Gmbh 6
#5 Yibo Liu Polycom 4
#5 Vivek Shah Applied Materials 4
#5 Yingzhong Li MIT 4
#5 Kevin Bourque Tc1 4
#5 Mark R. Jones Mevion Medical Systems 4
#10 Angela Norton Shire Human Genetic Therapies 3
#10 Daniel K. Freeman Draper Laboratory 3
#10 James R. Hewitt Sharkninja Operating 3
#10 Alan B. Northrup Merck 3
#14 Nicholas PT Bateman Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 2
#14 Stephen R. Lewis Caterpillar 2
#14 Katelyn Perkins-Neaton Alcyone Lifesciences 2
#14 Joseph Kinsella Pegasus Aeronautics 2
#14 Michael C. Bradford Tenneco Automotive Operating Company 2
#14 Stewart Chipman Dynavax Technologies 2
#14 Matthew A. Morton RTX (Raytheon) 2
#14 Mark Michelman Seventh Sense Biosystems 2
#14 Kyle Anderson Dow Global Technologies 2
#14 Austin DULAK Surface Oncology 2
#14 Macy Jin Pfizer 2
#25 Dino Francesco Cuscuna Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 1
#25 Jeffrey P. Ciavarri Millennium Pharmaceuticals 1
#25 Alan Gill Als Therapy Development Institute 1
#25 Ankita Desai Incept 1
#25 Harminder Singh Nortel Networks Limited 1
#25 John J. Carciero 1
#25 Garth Benedict Aruba Networks 1
#25 Toufic G. Atallah Blauer Manufacturing Company 1
#25 Frederick E. Becker Thermo Power 1
#25 Justin Larson Globus Medical 1
#25 Karen Westerman Bluebird Bio 1
#25 Matthew J. LaMarche Novartis Ag 1
#25 Eugene BZOWEJ E Ink Holdings 1
#25 You Li Signify Holding B.V. 1
#25 Michael L. Rishton Lantos Technologies 1
#25 Matthew K. Gray Google 1
#25 Vladimir Liberman MIT 1
#25 Arthur Driscoll Confluent Surgical 1
#25 Robert S. Salter Charm Sciences 1
#25 Cynthia A. Gill Als Therapy Development Institute 1
#25 Blake Zachary Courter Stratasys 1
#25 Zachary K. Hennings Drägerwerk Ag & Co. Kgaa 1
#25 S. Jordan Kerns Emulate 1
#25 Louise Williams MIT 1
#25 Willem Kools Millipore 1
#25 Dennis McGillicuddy Mersana Therapeutics 1

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