Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Lexington, MA ranks #128 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,048 patents from 469 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Lexington, MA include Intel, Translate Bio, Disney. That works out to 30.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 469 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Mark J. Charney Intel 26
2 Frank DeRosa Translate Bio 21
2 Michael Heartlein Translate Bio 21
#4 Wojciech Matusik Disney 16
#5 Arthur L. Coburn, IV Sonos 15
#6 Terrence Chen Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. 12
#6 Kripa K. Varanasi MIT 12
#8 Yan Li Nanosemi 11
#8 Qizhi Liu IBM 11
#8 Douglas A. Melton Harvard University 11
#11 Lei Gu Broadcom 10
#11 Mark Solomon Tangible Play 10
#11 Michael Super Harvard University 10
#11 Jan Kautz NVIDIA 10
#11 Jasbir Seehra Acceleron Pharma 10
#16 Shrirang Karve Translate Bio 9
#16 Naoki Ota 24M Technologies 9
#18 Vijay Parthasarathy Power Integrations 8
#18 Avak Kahvejian Flagship Pioneering Innovations Vi 8
#20 Rahul Sen Nantero 7
#20 Pan Li Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 7
#20 Koon Hoo Teo Mitsubishi Electric 7
#23 Fiorenzo G. Omenetto Trustees Of Tufts College 6
#23 Michael S. Strano MIT 6
#23 Ziyan Wu Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. 6
#23 Zhongguo Wang Forma Therapeutics 6
#23 Yecheng Wu Idemia Identity & Security Usa 6
#23 Wei Li Enanta Pharmaceuticals 6
#23 Sangeeta N. Bhatia MIT 6
#30 Frederic Boutaud Texas Instruments 5
#30 Mark K. Schlegel Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 5
#30 Angelos Alexanian Veoneer Us 5
#30 Neelu Kaila Pfizer 5
#30 Hao Tang Agenus 5
#30 Zhihua Ma Amgen 5
#30 Dmitry Fomitchev Cabot 5
#30 In Jong Kim Enanta Pharmaceuticals 5
#30 Shriram Sethuraman Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 5
#30 Dennis John Underwood Agenus 5
#30 Amarpreet S. Sawhney Incept 5
#30 Klavs F. Jensen MIT 5
#30 Robert Yongxin Zhao Immunogen 5
#30 Anusha Dias Translate Bio 5
#44 Dapeng Sun New England Biolabs 4
#44 David Stephen Reiner Emc 4
#44 Smaine Zeroug Schlumberger Technology 4
#44 Peter L. Chu Polycom 4
#44 Farshid Mostowfi Schlumberger Technology 4
#44 Zhigang Suo Harvard University 4
#44 Deepak Das Federated Wireless 4

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