Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Acton, MA ranks #289 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 10,469 patents from 1,334 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Acton, MA include Boston Scientific Scimed, Skyworks Solutions, IBM.

Showing 1–50 of 1,334 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Barry Weitzner Boston Scientific Scimed 155
2 Bo Zhou Skyworks Solutions 123
3 Wei Zhang IBM 108
#4 David R. Oran Cisco 101
#5 Tao Hong BOE 96
#6 Ravi Sharma Eastman Kodak 87
#7 Joseph L. Jones Irobot 81
#8 Peter R. Wurman Amazon 77
#9 Srivatsan Parthasarathy Microsoft 72
#10 Jianxiu Hao Verizon 70
#10 William T. Freeman MIT 70
#10 Gary Kappel Boston Scientific Scimed 70
#13 Antoni S. Gozdz A123 Systems 69
#14 Anil Jeswani Ledvance Gmbh 67
#15 James A. Belmont Cabot 65
#16 Jack Jianxiu Hao Verizon 63
#17 William S. Yerazunis Mitsubishi Electric 62
#18 Sergej-Tomislav Buljan Gte Laboratories Incorporated 61
#19 Edward R. Damiano Beta Bionics 59
#19 Kevin Wilson Hologic 59
#19 Rohit Prasad Amazon 59
#22 David Black Emc 58
#23 Qi-Bin Bao Pioneer Surgical Technology 56
#23 Hanna Yehuda Emc 56
#23 Yuhong Huang Rockwell Automation 56
#23 James C. Anderson HP 56
#27 Alexandre Joseph Buckmelter Forma Therapeutics 54
#27 Joel S. Emer Intel 54
#29 John S. Petersen Syndevrx 53
#29 Thomas K. Skripps Allen Medical Systems 53
#29 Ian D. Morrison E Ink Holdings 53
#32 Jason O'CONNOR Insulet 52
#33 Bradley Paul Barber Agere Systems 51
#33 Kyle B. Wheeler Micron 51
#33 Mark Ledeboer Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 51
#36 James M. Coull Boston Probes 47
#36 Stuart D. Sandberg Commscope Technologies 47
#38 Paul G. Yamkovoy Bose 46
#39 Jian Lin Forma Therapeutics 44
#39 William B. Spillman, Jr. 44
#41 Alan J. Bitonti Syntonix Pharmaceuticals 43
#41 Neal R. Butler Lockheed Martin 43
#43 Ching Wu Excellims 42
#43 Qin-Fan Zhu Broadcom 42
#45 Julian Horn IBM 40
#45 Teck Ping Sim E Ink Holdings 40
#45 Hong Xiao Verizon 40
#45 Kirill K. Pankratov Symbotic 40
#49 Xuan Kong Neurometrix 39
#50 Sergey A. Bukesov Gyrus Acmi 38

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