Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Somerville, NJ ranks #653 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 216 patents from 91 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Somerville, NJ include Qualcomm, IBM, Verizon. That works out to 17.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 91 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Tianyang Bai Qualcomm 48
2 Shubhadip Ray IBM 14
2 Jignesh S. Panchal Verizon 14
#4 Venkatesan Nallampatti Ekambaram Intel 8
#5 Namdev B. Shelke Amneal Complex Products Research 7
#6 Nazir Mir Agrofresh 6
#6 Sridevi Dhanaraj Johnson & Johnson 6
#6 Nir I. Nativ Johnson & Johnson 6
#9 Paras Jariwala Amneal Complex Products Research 5
#10 Tristan Kremp Ofs Fitel 4
#11 Marc Brian Wisnudel GE 3
#11 John Fannon Allied Blending Lp 3
#11 Norman M. Chin Bmic 3
#11 Donald Roy Doosan Fuel Cell America 3
#11 Sasa Andjelic Johnson & Johnson 3
#16 William Robert Davey Verizon 2
#16 Xiaopeng Huang MIT 2
#16 Cheryl Kozubal Colgate-Palmolive 2
#16 Kenneth E. Voss Engelhard 2
#16 Victor R. Herrero IBM 2
#16 Ronald Perez Cornell University 2
#16 Samia Ilias ExxonMobil 2
#23 Vikram Madineni Ingersoll-Rand 1
#23 Wajira S. Ratnayake Corn Products Development 1
#23 Richard Handwerk 1
#23 Gerald R. Thompson Alcatel Lucent 1
#23 Christopher Lee Rutledge AT&T 1
#23 Eduardo Perez Signum Biosciences 1
#23 Samantha M. Weber Acclarent 1
#23 Richard Reid Hovey Qualcomm 1
#23 Thomas Gruenewald Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 1
#23 Soumitesh Chakravorty Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey 1
#23 Syeda Hussain Composecure 1
#23 James Iskra Aprecia Pharmaceuticals 1
#23 Madhusudan Patel Colgate-Palmolive 1
#23 Karan Singh Gulati 1
#23 Andrew Jayce Meersand Comcast 1
#23 Richard Wilde Ptc Therapeutics 1
#23 S. Neil Bar Johnson & Johnson 1
#23 Erman Senoz Ticona 1
#23 Erasmo Lopez Depuy Spine 1
#23 Thomas Taylor Dak Americas 1
#23 Sachin BOBADE Veritas Operating 1
#23 Nimesh Kabaria Lifecell 1
#23 Bojan Mitrovic Veeco Instruments 1
#23 Saurav S. Sengupta Dow Global Technologies 1
#23 William Patrick Gervasio Verizon 1
#23 Joseph Squires Corn Products Development 1
#23 Afzal Muhammad Chaudhry 1
#23 Themistoklis Moudrakis 1

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