Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Wellesley, MA ranks #544 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 253 patents from 136 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wellesley, MA include AMD, Biomed Valley Discoveries, Shanghai Xpt Technology Limited. That works out to 8.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 136 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David A. Roberts AMD 10
2 Saurabh Saha Biomed Valley Discoveries 9
2 Yu Jiang Shanghai Xpt Technology Limited 9
#4 Kenneth W. Bair Burroughs Wellcome 7
#4 Harith Rajagopalan Fractyl Health 7
#6 Sandeep Akkaraju Exo Imaging 6
#6 Ara Nazarian Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 6
#8 Hans Fischmann AT&T 5
#8 Wayne A. Marasco Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 5
#8 Christopher Sullivan Salesforce 5
#11 Eric A. Miller, Jr. Sharkninja Operating 4
#11 Nikolai D. Begg Covidien Lp 4
#11 Isaac Ostrovsky Boston Scientific Scimed 4
#14 Heng Li Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals 3
#14 Jeffrey A. Kraemer Cisco 3
#14 Richard K. Holman 24M Technologies 3
#14 Vikram Pattanayak Harvard University 3
#14 Charles Hwang Becton, Dickinson And 3
#14 Zhaoxia Ji Living Proof 3
#14 Rudi Bao Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Co. 3
#14 Jay S. Smith Intarcia Therapeutics 3
#14 Yue-Mei Zhang Johnson & Johnson 3
#14 Phillip W. Thiessen RTX (Raytheon) 3
#14 Robert J. Mears Atomera Incorporated 3
#25 Paul E. Glenn Quantum-Si Incorporated 2
#25 James Januzzi Roche Diagnostics Operations 2
#25 Matthew J. Aprea E Ink Holdings 2
#25 Dana Herweck Airwirl 2
#25 Michael Hamill Axcella Health 2
#25 Ken Jones Dish Network L.L.C. 2
#25 Ninghui Yu Canwell Biotech Limited 2
#25 Dennis J. Chen IBM 2
#25 Lee M. Kaplan The General Hospital 2
#25 Zhaolin Wang Ra Pharmaceuticals 2
#25 Krishna Balasubramanian The Mathworks 2
#25 Wells Cunningham Zynon Technologies 2
#25 T. Eric Hopkins Opteon 2
#25 Andrew Bellinger MIT 2
#25 Alan S. Kopin Tufts Medical Center 2
#25 Wei Wang Hannstar Display 2
#25 Donald W. Kufe Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 2
#25 Gokhan S. Hotamisligil Harvard University 2
#25 Michael F. Fallon Intel 2
#25 Yu Zhu Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co. 2
#25 Jiang Xin Global Products Limited 2
#25 Steven B. Landau Dynogen Pharmaceuticals 2
#25 John Ciolfi The Mathworks 2
#25 Keith Johnson Fuze 2
#25 Gregory Sieczkiewicz Tcr2 Therapeutics 2
#25 Leonard I. Zon Children'S Medical Center 2

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