Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Brookline, MA ranks #142 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 965 patents from 538 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Brookline, MA include Beta Bionics, Emc Ip Holding Company, Sharkninja Operating. That works out to 15.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 538 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Firas H. El-Khatib Beta Bionics 15
2 Ivan Bassov Emc Ip Holding Company 13
3 Dan Kestenbaum Sharkninja Operating 12
#4 Michael S. H. Chu Boston Scientific Scimed 10
#4 Ming Qian Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 10
#4 Ali Khakifirooz IBM 10
#7 Max Edward Metral PayPal 9
#7 Stephen Hoge Modernatx 9
#7 Je Kyun Lee LG 9
#10 Gordon J. Freeman Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 8
#10 Dirk Robert Englund MIT 8
#10 Tinghu Zhang Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 8
#13 Leonid Rodniansky IBM 7
#13 Peter L. Dayton Boston Scientific Scimed 7
#13 David Arthur Berry Seres Therapeutics 7
#16 Nan Zheng University of Michigan 6
#16 James F. Cameron Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 6
#16 Shomir Ghosh Millennium Pharmaceuticals 6
#16 Richard L. Martin IBM 6
#16 Jeffrey M. Karp Brigham and Women's Hospital 6
#16 Alex Zaslavsky Emc Ip Holding Company 6
#16 Brett Curry Smith & Wesson 6
#16 Jerzy Olejnik Ambergen 6
#24 Kipp Andrew Weiskopf Stanford University 5
#24 Yueyue Wang Toast 5
#24 Scott Joseph Thorne Simplisafe 5
#24 Johanna Lisa Dwyer Blackberry Limited 5
#24 Arlene H. Sharpe Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 5
#24 Peter T. Lansbury Bial—R&D Investments, S.A. 5
#24 Thorsten Knobloch The Procter & Gamble 5
#24 Catherine Karalis Emulate 5
#24 Takahisa Kato Canon 5
#24 Catriona C. A. Sutter Sharkninja Operating 5
#24 Dennis Buckley Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 5
#24 Maria Isabel Ancona Inspire Medical Systems 5
#24 Xuanhe Zhao MIT 5
#37 Je-Hyuk Lee Harvard University 4
#37 Anthony Nardella Unknown 4
#37 Eddine Saiah Pfizer 4
#37 Doron Harlev Affera 4
#37 Duco W. Noordzij Gentex 4
#37 Peter Schmitt Desktop Metal 4
#37 Dragan Savic Emc Ip Holding Company 4
#37 Elazer R. Edelman MIT 4
#37 Hsun-Hsien Chang Motional Ad 4
#37 Le Cong MIT 4
#37 Yan Wang Samsung 4
#37 Tong Chen IBM 4
#37 Andrew Jones Manta Devices 4
#37 Stephen Michael Okajima Surgibox 4

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