Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Milton, MA ranks #1,308 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 107 patents from 56 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Milton, MA include Affectiva, Smart Power Co., Color Kinetics Incorporated. That works out to 3.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 56 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Rana el Kaliouby Affectiva 9
2 Stephen DeLano Smart Power Co. 8
3 Ihor Lys Color Kinetics Incorporated 6
#4 Geoffrey Ian Karasic Smith & Nephew 5
#5 Allen P. Smith PayPal 4
#5 Frank Schroth PayPal 4
#7 Martin Purschke The General Hospital 3
#7 Massimiliano Versace Neurala 3
#7 Frederick R. Taylor Biogen Ma 3
#10 Christopher C. Cummins MIT 2
#10 Richard Stephen Wisdom Interscope 2
#10 Loredana Protesescu Avantama Ag 2
#10 Sarah Ting-Ting Hsu 2
#10 Paulo Damoura Afc Cable Systems 2
#10 Richard Miller Rovi Guides 2
#10 Bradley Moriarty 2
#10 Christopher A. Larsen Maytag 2
#10 Daming Cui 2
#10 Ross Bandy Applied Materials 2
#10 Max Hui 2
#10 Noah Shane Fuller 2
#10 Patrick Jiacheng Huang 2
#10 Kenneth M. Rosen Bioaxone Biosciences 2
#10 Dan O'Connor IBM 2
#25 Hunter Carey 1
#25 John Hynes 1
#25 Jonathan Freed Bose 1
#25 Dustin Gaidos Dentsply Sirona 1
#25 Israel Alvarez ExxonMobil 1
#25 Ramdas Pai Honeywell 1
#25 Kristala Lanett Jones Prather MIT 1
#25 Luca Giancardo MIT 1
#25 Mathew DeDonato Teledyne Instruments 1
#25 Molly R. Perkins 2Seventy Bio 1
#25 Theresa M. Gaffney Accenture Global Solutions Limited 1
#25 Stephen Tully Covidien Lp 1
#25 Heather Ames Versace Neurala 1
#25 Hung Phan Virtualagility 1
#25 Chuong Pham 1
#25 Michael K. Blackwell Color Kinetics Incorporated 1
#25 Cory Emil Medos International Sarl 1
#25 Trung Quoc Phung Chestnut Hill Sound 1
#25 Stephen M. Sparagna RTX (Raytheon) 1
#25 Joseph F. Larkin Northwestern University 1
#25 William M. Wong Teratech 1
#25 Jason Thomas Boock MIT 1
#25 Evan M. Dooley 1
#25 Elias Elias Associates Of Cape Cod, Incorporated 1
#25 Rodney Horton Applied Cardiovascular Solutions 1
#25 Desmond Wayne Yeung Datto 1

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