Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Sandy Hook, CT ranks #1,790 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 75 patents from 30 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Sandy Hook, CT include Intuitive Surgical, PepsiCo, Spine Wave. That works out to 8.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–30 of 30 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 William A. Burbank Intuitive Surgical 12
2 Bruno Telesca PepsiCo 7
3 Scott McLean Spine Wave 6
#4 Mario Galasso Fox Factory 5
#4 Kenneth P. Rodbell IBM 5
#4 Frank J. Viola Covidien Lp 5
#7 Michael A. Hoyack Amphenol 4
#8 Vincenzo V. Diluoffo IBM 3
#8 Matthew Petrillo Disney 3
#8 Timothy R. Stango Hologic 3
#11 Derren N. Dunn IBM 2
#11 Anthony Graffeo 2
#13 Richard Simoneau 1
#13 Timothy M. Byrne Ingevity South Carolina 1
#13 Jianfei Yang Unknown 1
#13 Vincenzo V. Di Luoffo IBM 1
#13 Julia D. Truchsess Avedis Zildjian 1
#13 Sreeraj MACHA BOE 1
#13 Brendan Duffy Gudpod 1
#13 Peter Bowman Warner-Lambert Company 1
#13 Eric Kolb Depuy Spine 1
#13 John Glaberson Coopersurgical 1
#13 P. Spencer Kinsey Mannkind 1
#13 Ryan W. Knapp Macton 1
#13 Louis John Markoya Asml Holding N.V. 1
#13 Igor Cherepinsky Sikorsky Aircraft 1
#13 Steven M. Reps IBM 1
#13 Alexey Virovets Airgas 1
#13 Ivan N. Volchkov BOE 1
#13 Timothy J. Makris Thule Sweden Ab 1

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