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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Westfield, NJ ranks #1,090 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 133 patents from 77 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Westfield, NJ include Codexis, Bank of America, Verizon. That works out to 4.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 77 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Jeffrey C. Moore Codexis 8
2 Yair Frankel Bank of America 5
3 Bryan Christopher Larish Verizon 4
3 Zhiqiang Yang Merck 4
#5 Bradford Pistorio L'Oreal 3
#5 Peter Roland Smith US Dept of Homeland Security 3
#5 David Verchick Philip Morris Products S.A. 3
#5 Mihir Mandal Merck 3
#5 Yan Guo Merck 3
#5 Stephen J. Griesmer AT&T 3
#5 Guojin ZHANG L'Oreal 3
#5 Ann E. Skudlark AT&T 3
#5 Raymond P. Warrell, Jr. Acquist 3
#5 David Vavrasek Sensormatic Electronics 3
#5 Abhimanyu O. Patil ExxonMobil 3
#16 Eugene J. Schaefer Bristol-Myers Squibb 2
#16 Christopher W. Plummer Merck 2
#16 Angelike Galdi L'Oreal 2
#16 John Qiang Tan Merck 2
#16 Nikolaos Melissaris Papanikolaou 2
#16 Ping Liu Merck 2
#16 R. Scott Hoerrner 2
#16 Zhenkun Ma Abbott 2
#16 Megan Collins Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 2
#16 Siliu Tan L'Oreal 2
#16 Michael Siskin ExxonMobil 2
#16 Ryuji Hara L'Oreal 2
#16 Xianmin Wang Cypress Semiconductor 2
#16 James Wang Schering 2
#16 Harry R. Chobanian Merck 2
#16 Harold B. Wood Merck 2
#16 Hongming Li Brandeis University 2
#33 Semra Senturk-Ozer L'Oreal 1
#33 Robert Silverman IBM 1
#33 Edward Laczynski 1
#33 Christopher Moyes Merck 1
#33 Daniel I. Kagan Bioactives 1
#33 Eric Rubel Pic 1
#33 Hongwu Wang Merck 1
#33 Birgit Kosjek Codexis 1
#33 William Zicker 1
#33 Antony R. Martin Dialogic 1
#33 Noriaki Kaneda Alcatel Lucent 1
#33 Matthew Osinski AT&T 1
#33 Alexandre Ambrogelly Merck 1
#33 John E. Stelmach Merck 1
#33 Valeriano Marinelli Orlandi 1
#33 Samuel Wright The Rockefeller University 1
#33 David Katz 1
#33 Kelvin Hin-Yeong Yong Bristol-Myers Squibb 1

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