Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Arlington, MA ranks #185 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 15,685 patents from 2,056 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Arlington, MA include Berkshire Grey Operating Company, E Ink Holdings, Qualcomm. That works out to 338.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,056 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Joseph Romano Berkshire Grey Operating Company 218
1 Christopher Geyer Berkshire Grey Operating Company 218
3 Stephen J. Telfer E Ink Holdings 196
#4 Andrew Evan Gruber Qualcomm 137
#5 David P. Martin Tepha 135
#6 Katherine L. Hall Witricity 125
#7 James McSwiggen Sirna Therapeutics 118
#8 Anthony Vetro Mitsubishi Electric 113
#9 Daniel Perlman Brandeis University 109
#10 Ron Kuper Sonos 98
#11 Eric C. Rosen Qualcomm 96
#12 Brig Barnum Elliott Bbn Technologies 90
#13 Joel Gould Ab Initio Technology 87
#14 Shyam Bharat Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 81
#15 Stephen Randall Holmes-Farley Geltex Pharmaceuticals 76
#16 PETER DEIXLER Signify Holding B.V. 72
#17 Thomas Swyst Black & Decker 70
#18 Alice M. Chiang Teratech 68
#19 Elliot G. Eichen Verizon 65
#19 Nikolaos Triandopoulos Emc 65
#21 Darrell J. Irvine MIT 63
#22 Richard T. Hanks Microsoft 62
#23 Douglas A. Treco Transkaryotic Therapies 61
#23 John H. Edmondson NVIDIA 61
#25 Samuel H. Duncan NVIDIA 59
#26 Jurgen Michel MIT 58
#26 Kevin Blankespoor Boston Dynamics 58
#28 Hanspeter Pfister Mitsubishi Electric 57
#29 Jeffrey P. Whittemore Zipwall 56
#30 Oliver P. Peoples Metabolix 55
#30 Rajeev Ram MIT 55
#30 Robert J. Davies Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 55
#33 Mahesh Saptharishi Avigilon Analytics 54
#34 Kevin Michael Cottrell Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 52
#34 Craig Breen Qd Vision 52
#36 R. Blake Pepinsky 51
#36 Jean E. Bemis Catabasis Pharmaceuticals 51
#36 Amy D. Travis IBM 51
#39 Yu Ding Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co. 50
#40 Lawrence N. Friedman Emc 49
#40 Nan Ji Kymera Therapeutics 49
#42 Dylan Charles Bartle Skyworks Solutions 48
#43 Timothy Opperman Sanofi Pasteur 46
#43 James A. Negro Cognex 46
#43 Eric A. Jacobson IBM 46
#43 Matthew Dunn Liveperson 46
#43 Roger F. Sinta Shipley Company, L.L.C. 46
#43 Dinesh U. Chimmanamada Synta Pharmaceuticals 46
#49 Gert Blankenstein BOE 45
#50 Michael Chun-chieh Lee Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 44

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