Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Needham, MA ranks #537 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 256 patents from 137 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Needham, MA include Merck, Emc Ip Holding Company, Bioverativ Therapeutics. That works out to 8.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 137 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Yongxin Han Merck 12
2 Adnan Sahin Emc Ip Holding Company 11
3 Robert T. Peters Bioverativ Therapeutics 9
#4 Kun Liu Merck 7
#5 Richard Mathias Sharkninja Operating 6
#5 Matthew G. Bursavich Morphic Therapeutic 6
#7 Richard L. Miller Manta Devices 5
#7 Alex Kogan Oracle 5
#7 Akin Akinc Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 5
#7 Pasi Janne Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 5
#11 Jesse Grant Abl Ip Holding 4
#11 Mohammad E. Taslim Graphene-Dx 4
#11 Qinglin Pu Merck 4
#11 Owen R. Johnson Sharkninja Operating 4
#11 Andrew D. Keene RTX (Raytheon) 4
#11 Charles N. Serhan Brigham and Women's Hospital 4
#17 Kevin Sprott Syros Pharmaceuticals 3
#17 Jared James Proulx Sharkninja Operating 3
#17 Hak Soo Choi Northwestern University 3
#17 Richard A. Silva Immunogen 3
#17 David Ofer Camx Power 3
#17 Steven A. Kates Lakewood Amedex 3
#17 Peter E. Hammer Children'S Medical Center 3
#17 Jialin Zhao Analog Devices International Unlimited 3
#17 Ravi Chandran Thermochem Recovery International 3
#26 Ashok Bakul Patel The Gillette Company 2
#26 Alexander Shneider 2
#26 Michael D. Altman Merck 2
#26 Steve Han Philip Morris Products S.A. 2
#26 David Jalbert Exceptional Ip Holdings 2
#26 Andrew Miles Wallace Affera 2
#26 Allan Velzy Sonos 2
#26 David Salzman 2
#26 Yi LU E Ink Holdings 2
#26 Joseph C. Cuccinelli, Jr. Apple 2
#26 Brian A. Murch Sealed Air Corporation (Us) 2
#26 Shani Mann Lexington Medical 2
#26 Kenneth Focht Becton, Dickinson And 2
#26 Jonathan Wood Evoqua Water Technologies 2
#26 Marc D. Friedman Avedro 2
#26 David D. Konieczynski Depuy Spine 2
#26 Jane Bareau Boston Scientific Scimed 2
#26 Ejaz Ahmed Amazon 2
#26 David Smith Rai Strategic Holdings 2
#26 Eric H. Silver Imagine Scientific 2
#26 Tania Butovsky IBM 2
#26 Ilia Korboukh Qiagen Sciences 2
#48 Mark Borowsky The General Hospital 1
#48 Patrick F. King Mineral Lassen 1
#48 Orit Itzhar Ptc 1

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