Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Needham, MA ranks #492 worldwide for total patents filed in 2022, with 277 patents from 148 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Needham, MA include Sharkninja Operating, Oracle, Emc Ip Holding Company. That works out to 8.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 148 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Richard Mathias Sharkninja Operating 16
2 Alex Kogan Oracle 8
2 Adnan Sahin Emc Ip Holding Company 8
#4 Steve Han Philip Morris Products S.A. 6
#4 Yongxin Han Merck 6
#6 Robert T. Peters Bioverativ Therapeutics 5
#7 Akin Akinc Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 4
#7 Richard A. Silva Immunogen 4
#7 Tania Butovsky IBM 4
#7 Peter Hutchinson Sharkninja Operating 4
#7 Nicholas G. Laidlaw Voicify 4
#7 Ravi Chandran Thermochem Recovery International 4
#7 Lixin Pang Dell Products 4
#7 Rebecca L. Lacouture Evolved By Nature 4
#7 Richard L. Miller Manta Devices 4
#16 Gregg M. Duthaler E Ink Holdings 3
#16 Kaushik CHOWDHURY Northwestern University 3
#16 Alexander Calvino Sharkninja Operating 3
#16 James Galagan Boston University 3
#16 Marc D. Friedman Avedro 3
#16 Ejaz Ahmed Amazon 3
#16 Ronghua Chen Merck 3
#16 Neal Ennis Brenner Xl Hybrids 3
#16 Seungwhan Moon Meta 3
#16 Owen R. Johnson Sharkninja Operating 3
#16 Cyrus B. Gooray Avanti Orthopaedics 3
#16 Jialin Zhao Analog Devices International Unlimited 3
#16 David Ofer Camx Power 3
#16 Andrew Han Veeva Systems 3
#16 Andrew Miles Wallace Affera 3
#31 Glen Harrison Ruggiero Hubbell Incorporated 2
#31 Andrew D. Keene RTX (Raytheon) 2
#31 Allan Velzy Sonos 2
#31 Bruce Aaron BEUTEL Abbott 2
#31 Michael D. Altman Merck 2
#31 Steven A. Kates Lakewood Amedex 2
#31 Qinglin Pu Merck 2
#31 Ashok Bakul Patel The Gillette Company 2
#31 Eric Schmitt Meta 2
#31 David Jalbert Exceptional Ip Holdings 2
#31 Wujun Qie Verizon 2
#31 TzeHo Lee Cold Chain Technologies 2
#31 Charles N. Serhan Brigham and Women's Hospital 2
#31 Kenneth Focht Becton, Dickinson And 2
#31 Isaac J. Krauss Brandeis University 2
#31 Russell L. Tedrake Toyota 2
#31 Rahul K. Dhanda T2 Biosystems 2
#31 Alyssa M. Larson Eagle Biologics 2
#31 Mathew H. DeLano Waters Technologies 2
#31 Yi LU E Ink Holdings 2

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