Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Needham, MA ranks #596 worldwide for total patents filed in 2023, with 234 patents from 124 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Needham, MA include Sharkninja Operating, The Gillette Company, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. That works out to 7.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 124 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Owen R. Johnson Sharkninja Operating 10
2 Ping Chu Sharkninja Operating 9
3 Xu Sheng Deng Sharkninja Operating 8
#4 Richard Mathias Sharkninja Operating 7
#5 Peter Hutchinson Sharkninja Operating 6
#5 Ashok Bakul Patel The Gillette Company 6
#7 Akin Akinc Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 5
#7 Charles N. Serhan Brigham and Women's Hospital 5
#7 Alex Kogan Oracle 5
#10 Seungwhan Moon Meta 4
#10 Adnan Sahin Emc Ip Holding Company 4
#10 Ravi Chandran Thermochem Recovery International 4
#10 Russell L. Tedrake Toyota 4
#14 Kenneth Focht Becton, Dickinson And 3
#14 Nicholas G. Laidlaw Voicify 3
#14 Ejaz Ahmed Amazon 3
#14 Liam Shea Daly Alarm.Com Incorporated 3
#14 Pasi Janne Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 3
#14 Matthew G. Bursavich Morphic Therapeutic 3
#14 Richard L. Miller Manta Devices 3
#14 Jared James Proulx Sharkninja Operating 3
#14 Andrew Miles Wallace Affera 3
#23 Glen Harrison Ruggiero Hubbell Incorporated 2
#23 Steve Han Philip Morris Products S.A. 2
#23 Harry J. Schechter Schechter Tech 2
#23 David Jalbert Exceptional Ip Holdings 2
#23 David Ofer Camx Power 2
#23 Jialin Zhao Analog Devices International Unlimited 2
#23 Ilia Korboukh Qiagen Sciences 2
#23 Richard A. Silva Immunogen 2
#23 Eric H. Silver Imagine Scientific 2
#23 TzeHo Lee Cold Chain Technologies 2
#23 Ronghua Chen Merck 2
#23 Max He Sharkninja Operating 2
#23 Jane Bareau Boston Scientific Scimed 2
#23 Kevin Young Cynosure 2
#23 Kevin Sprott Syros Pharmaceuticals 2
#23 Tao Yu Analog Devices 2
#23 Daniel Tonderys Sharkninja Operating 2
#23 Kim Rejndrup Oracle 2
#23 Alexander Calvino Sharkninja Operating 2
#23 Yongxin Han Merck 2
#23 Seona Standard Bottomline Technologies 2
#23 Colin Taylor Mosgrove Bose 2
#23 Mathew H. DeLano Waters Technologies 2
#23 Brian A. Murch Sealed Air Corporation (Us) 2
#23 Gregg M. Duthaler E Ink Holdings 2
#23 Anandan Palani Merck 2
#23 Raphael Nir 2
#23 Giovanni Cecere Transmedics 2

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