Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Needham, MA ranks #589 worldwide for total patents filed in 2024, with 243 patents from 134 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Needham, MA include Sharkninja Operating, Oracle, Affera. That works out to 7.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 134 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Owen R. Johnson Sharkninja Operating 12
2 Alex Kogan Oracle 10
3 Ping Chu Sharkninja Operating 8
#4 Andrew Miles Wallace Affera 7
#4 Xu Sheng Deng Sharkninja Operating 7
#6 Seungwhan Moon Meta 5
#6 Tao Yu Analog Devices 5
#6 Yongxin Han Merck 5
#9 Kenneth Focht Becton, Dickinson And 4
#9 Ejaz Ahmed Amazon 4
#9 Mathew H. DeLano Waters Technologies 4
#12 Bastin Antonisami Sharkninja Operating 3
#12 Shani Mann Lexington Medical 3
#12 Mingliang Qin Sharkninja Operating 3
#12 Daniel Tonderys Sharkninja Operating 3
#12 Kevin Sprott Syros Pharmaceuticals 3
#12 Alexander Calvino Sharkninja Operating 3
#12 Lee Core Arsenal Medical 3
#12 Pasi Janne Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 3
#12 Peter Hutchinson Sharkninja Operating 3
#12 Cornelius F. Young Cambridge Mobile Telematics 3
#12 Rebecca L. Lacouture Evolved By Nature 3
#12 Jialin Zhao Analog Devices International Unlimited 3
#12 Steven A. Kates Lakewood Amedex 3
#25 Cyrus B. Gooray Avanti Orthopaedics 2
#25 Peter E. Hammer Children'S Medical Center 2
#25 Antoine M. van Oijen Thermo Fisher 2
#25 Adnan Sahin Emc Ip Holding Company 2
#25 Stacy L. Blasberg Fresenius Medical Care Holdings 2
#25 Benedict Shia Canon 2
#25 Ashok Bakul Patel The Gillette Company 2
#25 Douglas Lorrimer Armstrong GE 2
#25 Allan Velzy Sonos 2
#25 TzeHo Lee Cold Chain Technologies 2
#25 Marc D. Friedman Avedro 2
#25 Wujun Qie Verizon 2
#25 Richard Mathias Sharkninja Operating 2
#25 Thomas J. Gardella The General Hospital 2
#25 Kaushik CHOWDHURY Northwestern University 2
#25 Giovanni Cecere Transmedics 2
#25 Jesse Grant Abl Ip Holding 2
#25 Jared James Proulx Sharkninja Operating 2
#25 David L. Carnahan Nanolab 2
#25 Scott Howard Davis Broadcom 2
#25 Hak Soo Choi Northwestern University 2
#25 James Kuangcheng Tsen Fast Ip 2
#25 Richard A. Silva Immunogen 2
#48 Jeffrey Raymond Haswell Arbor Biotechnologies 1
#48 David S. Barrett Irobot 1
#48 Tal Achituv MIT 1

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