Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cambridge, MA ranks #31 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 3,430 patents from 1,823 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cambridge, MA include BOE, Acceleron Pharma, MIT. That works out to 29.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,823 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Fan Yang BOE 45
2 Ravindra Kumar Acceleron Pharma 27
3 Robert S. Langer MIT 21
#4 George M. Church Harvard University 18
#5 Christopher David Hinojosa Emulate 17
#5 Feng Zhang MIT 17
#7 Muthiah Manoharan Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 16
#7 Jeehwan Kim IBM 16
#9 Martin Maier Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 15
#10 Jaewon Choi Samsung 14
#10 Brian Bettencourt Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 14
#12 Kevin Fitzgerald Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 13
#12 Guillermo J. Tearney The General Hospital 13
#14 Ryan Knopf Soft Robotics 12
#14 Cole Constantineau Becton, Dickinson And 12
#14 Philip Orlik Mitsubishi Electric 12
#14 Jonathon Reilly Sonos 12
#14 Uri Kartoun IBM 12
#14 Joshua Aaron Lessing Soft Robotics 12
#20 David R. Liu Harvard University 11
#20 Timothy P. Harrah Boston Scientific Scimed 11
#20 Asya Grinberg Acceleron Pharma 11
#20 Jonathan Alexander Terrett Crispr Therapeutics Ag 11
#20 David A. Weitz Harvard University 11
#25 Jonathan Mailoa Robert Bosch Gmbh 10
#25 Stuart Milstein Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 10
#25 Aichen Low Psemi 10
#25 Dianne Sako Acceleron Pharma 10
#29 Alireza Rezania Johnson & Johnson 9
#29 Sun Hwa Lee Samsung 9
#29 Yan Zhang Virginia Commonwealth University 9
#32 Clara Vu Veo Robotics 8
#32 Rebeca Ramos-Zayas Crispr Therapeutics Ag 8
#32 Luke S. Fletcher Toyota 8
#32 Karl Iagnemma Motional Ad 8
#32 Silvana Konermann Salk Institute For Biological Studies 8
#32 Daniel Griffith Anderson MIT 8
#32 Daniel Vincent Harburg Soft Robotics 8
#32 Roselyne Castonguay Acceleron Pharma 8
#32 Toshiaki Koike-Akino Mitsubishi Electric 8
#32 Demetrios Kalaitzidis Crispr Therapeutics Ag 8
#32 Paul Blainey The Broad Institute 8
#32 Aviv Regev MIT 8
#44 Gunnar J. Hanson G.D. Searle 7
#44 Saikat Guha Microsoft 7
#44 Brad Cordova Cambridge Mobile Telematics 7
#44 Eric J. VanWyk Deka Products Limited Parternship 7
#44 Roy Hodgman Rapid7 7
#44 Xiaoyun Wu The Broad Institute 7
#44 Justin Andrew Caravella Forma Therapeutics 7

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