Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Waltham, MA ranks #231 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 601 patents from 326 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Waltham, MA include Zoll Medical, IBM, Novagen Holding. That works out to 9.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 326 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gary A. Freeman Zoll Medical 44
2 Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis IBM 19
3 Jing Xu Novagen Holding 17
3 Yat Sun Or Enanta Pharmaceuticals 17
#5 Frederick A. Flitsch Johnson & Johnson 13
#6 Andrew M. Wollacott Monsanto Technology 7
#6 Stephanos Ioannidis Forma Therapeutics 7
#8 Zachary Shriver Visterra 6
#8 Braydon Charles Guild Translate Bio 6
#8 Karthik Viswanathan Visterra 6
#11 Elizabeth M. Enlow The Johns Hopkins University 5
#11 Charles Conor Sleith Sonos 5
#11 Boopathy Ramakrishnan Visterra 5
#11 James R. Myette Visterra 5
#11 Goetz FRIEDERICHS Nxstage Medical 5
#11 Kathleen McCarthy Skyhawk Therapeutics 5
#11 Robin Mark Adrian Dawson Draper Laboratory 5
#11 Gregory Babcock Visterra 5
#11 Nicholas E. Holsman Applestone Meat Company 5
#11 Moon Chul Jung Waters Technologies 5
#21 Jian Li AT&T 4
#21 Timothy Weeden Dyne Therapeutics 4
#21 Marco da Silva Google 4
#21 Alexey Popov The Johns Hopkins University 4
#21 George Beskales Tamr 4
#21 Philseok Kim Harvard University 4
#21 Nikolai KLEY Orionis Biosciences 4
#21 Jonathan T. Lenz Lutron Technology Company 4
#29 Mikkel V. Debenedetto Amgen 3
#29 Ryan Thistle Fractal Antenna Systems 3
#29 Paul S. Titcomb Titcomb Brothers Manufacturing 3
#29 Jian Cui Phasorlab 3
#29 Ara Mermerian Ironwood Pharmaceuticals 3
#29 Tyler Layne Hook RTX (Raytheon) 3
#29 Stephen G. Machatha Cydex Pharmaceuticals 3
#29 Andrei Paduroiu Emc Ip Holding Company 3
#29 Nir Nossenson The Tomorrow Companies 3
#29 Eric Whitman Boston Dynamics 3
#29 Bradley A. Burres Intel 3
#29 Adrienne Clark Obp Medical 3
#29 Seyed Reza Mahmoudi MIT 3
#29 Shiladitya Sengupta Brigham and Women's Hospital 3
#43 Kevin Corely 2
#43 Alex Khripin Boston Dynamics 2
#43 Julia Claire Reynolds Google 2
#43 Derek T. Robison Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 2
#43 Phuoc T. Ho RTX (Raytheon) 2
#43 Fernando Fraga Mccue 2
#43 Cheuk Kan Quanterix 2
#43 Gina Christine Fay Boston Dynamics 2

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