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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Worcester, MA ranks #626 worldwide for total patents filed in 2020, with 247 patents from 139 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Worcester, MA include IBM, University of Pennsylvania, RTX (Raytheon). That works out to 1.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 139 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Christian Mueller IBM 16
2 Guangping Gao University of Pennsylvania 12
2 Zissis A. Dardas RTX (Raytheon) 12
#4 Laura E. Christakis Boston Scientific Scimed 6
#5 Jeffery R. Vautin Bose 5
#5 Mostafa El Gamal Western Digital Technologies 5
#5 Krenar Komoni Tive 5
#5 Alesia Tringale Emc Ip Holding Company 5
#9 Adrian D. Hobson Abb Vie 4
#9 Jason R. Pupecki Bose 4
#9 Nathan Cummings Boston Scientific Scimed 4
#9 Russell Couturier IBM 4
#9 Tae Han Ko Worklife Brands 4
#14 Nandakumar Selvaraj Vital Connect 3
#14 Gregory P. Prokopowicz Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 3
#14 Robert H. Brown, Jr. University Of Massachusetts 3
#14 Sean Timothy Fleming Vlt 3
#14 Michele L. R. Heffernan Sepracor 3
#14 Timothy A. Riley Nektar Therapeutics 3
#14 David J. Fustino Bose 3
#14 Julia Alterman University Of Massachusetts 3
#14 Gary R. Ostroff Alpha-Beta Technology 3
#14 Nicholas Leventis Aerogel Technologies 3
#14 Chun-Ting Chen Healthstream Taiwan 3
#14 Dan Wang Foxconn 3
#26 David W. Filar Wolverine Outdoors 2
#26 Jin Wuk Sung Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 2
#26 Dmitry Korkin Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2
#26 Pavel Terentiev Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2
#26 Benjamin C. Lippitt Bose 2
#26 David R. Tabatadze Zata Pharmaceuticals 2
#26 Lina Gonzalez Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa 2
#26 Stephen E. Fox Saint-Gobain Abrasives 2
#26 David W. Borhani Abbott 2
#26 Feng Wang Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co. 2
#26 Alexander B. Sigalov Signablok 2
#37 Warren James Ellis Bluezone Ip Holding 1
#37 Ines Burgos Boston Scientific Scimed 1
#37 Mark P. Dombrowski Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics 1
#37 Ronald Christopher Motta Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics 1
#37 Marko Popovic Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1
#37 William J. Joost RTX (Raytheon) 1
#37 Zachary Kennedy University Of Massachusetts 1
#37 Halit Bener Suay Carnegie Mellon University 1
#37 Joseph R. Ellsworth RTX (Raytheon) 1
#37 John Amann Zoll Medical 1
#37 Gregory Saunders Biamp Systems 1
#37 Alex Ovtchinnikov Ipg Photonics 1
#37 Kristen Billiar Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1
#37 Craig Peterson Wagner Spray Tech 1

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