Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cambridge, MA ranks #33 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 3,358 patents from 1,850 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cambridge, MA include BOE, Harvard University, MIT. That works out to 28.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,850 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Fan Yang BOE 53
2 George M. Church Harvard University 27
3 Robert S. Langer MIT 21
#4 Jean-Luc Robert Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 18
#4 Chuang Gan IBM 18
#6 Jonathan Mailoa Robert Bosch Gmbh 16
#7 Feng Zhang MIT 14
#7 Soo Kim Robert Bosch Gmbh 14
#9 Martin Maier Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 13
#9 Peter M. Jones IBM 13
#9 Stephen G. McGill Toyota 13
#9 Shuting Feng Shenzhen Relx Technology Co. 13
#13 Stuart Milstein Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 12
#13 Yan Zhang Virginia Commonwealth University 12
#13 Dakuo Wang IBM 12
#13 Nathaniel R. Lavins Sharkninja Operating 12
#13 Daniel Griffith Anderson MIT 12
#18 Morten Sommer Harvard University 11
#18 Muthiah Manoharan Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 11
#18 David R. Liu Harvard University 11
#18 Roy Hodgman Rapid7 11
#18 Hua Xie Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 11
#23 David A. Weitz Harvard University 10
#23 Kevin Fitzgerald Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 10
#23 Brian Bettencourt Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 10
#23 Silvana Konermann Salk Institute For Biological Studies 10
#23 Brandon J. Suleski Sharkninja Operating 10
#23 Luke S. Fletcher Toyota 10
#23 Timothy P. Harrah Boston Scientific Scimed 10
#30 Philip Orlik Mitsubishi Electric 9
#30 Conor J. Walsh Harvard University 9
#30 Jaimeen Kapadia Covidien Lp 9
#33 Jeffrey Hall Seibert, Jr. Twitter 8
#33 Uri Kartoun IBM 8
#33 Matthew Angel Factor Bioscience 8
#33 Christopher Rohde Factor Bioscience 8
#37 Rodolfo J. Chaparro Cue Biopharma 7
#37 Guillermo J. Tearney The General Hospital 7
#37 Colin H. Murphy Deka Products Limited Parternship 7
#37 Vivienne Sze Texas Instruments 7
#37 Niven Rajin Narain Berg Companies 7
#37 Ravindra Kumar Acceleron Pharma 7
#37 Patrick Hsu Salk Institute For Biological Studies 7
#37 Guo Ping Wei Schering 7
#37 Vasant Jadhav Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 7
#37 Jonathon Reilly Sonos 7
#47 Haode Qi IBM 6
#47 David William Kravitz T-Central 6
#47 Jonathan Alexander Terrett Crispr Therapeutics Ag 6
#47 Steven A. Carlson Optodot 6

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