Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Bourne, MA ranks #17,709 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 81 patents from 39 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Bourne, MA include Sonoco Products, Emc, By Design. That works out to 54.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–39 of 39 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gregory A. Hoover Sonoco Products 8
2 Jeffrey Wilcox Emc 7
3 Douglas Ritchie By Design 6
#4 Susan M. Ropiak 5
#4 Eric Meade Covidien Lp 5
#6 Kenneth D. Lawson Neil Brown Instrument Systems 4
#7 Francis Greenwood 3
#7 Pamela J. Weathers Worcester Polytechnic Institute 3
#7 Philip Levine US Air Force 3
#7 Carol Villnave Johnson University Of Massachusetts 3
#11 Justin Trent Shackleford Foster-Miller 2
#11 Gregory G. Hogan MIT 2
#11 Stephen W. Hague 2
#11 Gwyneth Packard Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2
#11 Thomas A. Shields Usm Holding Ag 2
#16 Alan M. Kuzirian 1
#16 Tuan H. Le Reebok International Limited 1
#16 Lennart C. Hultgren 1
#16 John P. Crossin 1
#16 Norman W. Martin 1
#16 Mark Wayne Juckett 1
#16 David P. Anslem 1
#16 Ann M. Anslem 1
#16 Thomas Duce 1
#16 Carl Turgeon Depuy Synthes Products 1
#16 Eugene R. D'Amaddio 1
#16 David A. Boegler 1
#16 Thom Neff 1
#16 David A. Koczwara Texas Instruments 1
#16 Michael Czaja 1
#16 Harvey Dickstein Warner-Lambert Company 1
#16 Matthew H. Trask IBM 1
#16 Matthew A. Trask Stratus Computer 1
#16 William McGittigan Depuy Spine 1
#16 Jay L. Dembro 1
#16 Gregg R Draudt 1
#16 Octavio P. Amaral Excel Switching 1
#16 Jeffrey S. Alden, Sr. 1
#16 Kenneth H. Fielding US Air Force 1

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