Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Belmont, MA ranks #337 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 9,187 patents from 1,163 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Belmont, MA include Enanta Pharmaceuticals, MIT, Berkshire Grey Operating Company. That works out to 336.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,163 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Guoqiang Wang Enanta Pharmaceuticals 166
2 Marin Soljacic MIT 141
3 John Richard Amend, Jr. Berkshire Grey Operating Company 126
#4 John D. Joannopoulos MIT 124
#5 Nathan Cohen Fractal Antenna Systems 98
#6 Muriel Medard MIT 92
#7 Robert W. Zehner E Ink Holdings 77
#8 Thomas F. Knight, Jr. MIT 71
#9 Howard P. Ng Berlex Laboratories 69
#10 Ralph Mazitschek The General Hospital 63
#11 Henryk T. Dudek Dicerna Pharmaceuticals 61
#11 Scott B. Guthery Microsoft 61
#13 Jonathan A. Hayes Microsoft 58
#14 Eric R. Cosman Sherwood Services Ag 55
#15 David Bumcrot Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 52
#16 Jian Wang Lycera 51
#16 Ruichao Shen Enanta Pharmaceuticals 51
#16 Eric R. Cosman Radionics 51
#19 Christopher M. Yates Mycovia Pharmaceuticals 50
#19 Richard L. Baker Glance Networks 50
#21 Bruce N. Rogers Pfizer 48
#21 James Crawford Meta 48
#23 Alexey A. Lugovskoy 47
#23 Michael Jones Mitsubishi Electric 47
#25 Hui Cao Enanta Pharmaceuticals 45
#25 Michael S. Phillips Sense Labs 45
#27 Gerardo V. Toledo Indigo Ag 44
#27 Dimitri Chernyak Amo Manufacturing Usa 44
#27 Jack A. Ekchian Clearmotion 44
#30 Lucy Gibson K-Nfb Reading Technology 42
#31 Hongming Chen The Johns Hopkins University 41
#31 In Y. Lee Genosco 41
#33 Badr Elmaanaoui Canon 40
#33 Masud Azimi Ahura 40
#33 Nello Mainolfi Kymera Therapeutics 40
#36 Wayne C. Widdison Immunogen 39
#36 David R. Chase Oracle 39
#38 Martin Sendzik Novartis Ag 38
#39 Yanke Liang Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 37
#39 Michael H. Serrano-Wu The Broad Institute 37
#39 Robert J. Littrell Vesper Technologies 37
#42 Mark W. Grossman Gte Products 36
#43 Anantha Chandrakasan MIT 35
#43 Joseph Skeffington Wholey, III Ab Initio Technology 35
#45 Marko Loncar Harvard University 34
#45 Sha Mi Biogen Ma 34
#45 Emmanuel Roche Global Information Research And Technologies 34
#45 Xin Li Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co. 34
#45 Michael Graf Axcelis Technologies 34
#50 Richard S. Goldhor Enounce 33

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