Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Boston, MA ranks #73 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 34,268 patents from 5,993 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Boston, MA include Acushnet, Vlt, Intel. That works out to 50.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 5,993 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 David A. Bulpett Acushnet 244
2 Patrizio Vinciarelli Vlt 239
3 Wajdi K. Feghali Intel 190
#4 Nathanael S. Gray Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 184
#5 Jay A. Stein Hologic 159
#6 Rory McGarry The Gillette Company 126
#7 Gordon Liao Unique Product & Design Co. 122
#8 Donald E. Ingber Harvard University 118
#9 David R. Lancia, Jr. Forma Therapeutics 113
#9 Jun Yuan Neurogen 113
#9 Steven Beckhardt Sonos 113
#12 Albert Jean Robichaud Sage Therapeutics 111
#13 Xinhui Wang IBM 107
#13 Richard Rox Anderson The General Hospital 107
#15 Aristeidis Karalis Witricity 104
#16 Mehmet Toner The General Hospital 99
#17 Ilya Sokolov Broadcom 97
#18 Geoffrey von Maltzahn Indigo Ag 94
#19 Abhishek Sharma Ford 92
#20 Donald R. Korb Tearscience 90
#21 Yael Maguire Meta 85
#22 Gregory L. Verdine Harvard University 84
#23 Guy Bemis Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 83
#24 Jean-Pierre Sommadossi Idenix Pharmaceuticals 82
#25 Aleksandra Popovic Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 80
#26 David R. Walt Trustees Of Tufts College 79
#27 Michael S. Malamas Amerimas Home Products 76
#27 Brian Seed The General Hospital 76
#29 Jakob Maya Panasonic 75
#30 Ameet Kumar Jain Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 74
#31 Vanessa Christie The Gillette Company 73
#31 Arthur G. Taveras Schering 73
#33 Stuart L. Schreiber Harvard University 72
#34 Clive Tucker Clearmotion 70
#35 Klaus Hartung Sonos 69
#35 Richard J. Wurtman MIT 69
#37 Seok-Hyun Yun The General Hospital 67
#37 David Muller Avedro 67
#39 Peter Lepeska Viasat 65
#39 Joanna Aizenberg Harvard University 65
#39 Nicholas C. Harris Lightmatter 65
#42 Jay Vyas IBM 63
#43 Julian Adams Infinity Pharmaceuticals 62
#44 Dirk Ahlgrim Simplisafe 61
#44 Francois Maltais Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 61
#46 Andreas Loew Novartis Ag 59
#46 John S. Harwood Emc Ip Holding Company 59
#46 David C. Rogers Artisent 59
#49 Richard A. Young Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research 58
#49 Darius Bunandar Lightmatter 58

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