Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Brookline, MA ranks #128 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 20,738 patents from 3,196 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Brookline, MA include IBM, Boston Scientific Scimed, Xyleco. That works out to 328.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 3,196 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ali Khakifirooz IBM 757
2 Michael S. H. Chu Boston Scientific Scimed 276
3 Marshall Medoff Xyleco 255
#4 Peter Schmitt Meadox Medicals 156
#5 Dennis Doughty Jumptap 117
#6 Greg E. Blonder AT&T 109
#7 Natan Vishlitzky Emc 104
#8 Doron Harlev Affera 100
#9 Matthew T. Currie TSMC 98
#10 Takahisa Kato Canon 96
#11 Gordon J. Freeman Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 90
#12 Johanna Lisa Dwyer Blackberry Limited 89
#13 James F. Cameron Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 88
#14 Natan E. Parsons Arichell Technologies 87
#15 Masaaki Ikeda Tsubakimoto Chain 86
#16 Dirk Robert Englund MIT 84
#17 Jerzy Olejnik Ambergen 82
#17 Tong Chen IBM 82
#19 William F. Ganong, III Microsoft 79
#20 Ming Qian Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 78
#20 Alexandr Veprinsky Emc 78
#22 Moshe Rock Malden Mills Industries 77
#23 David Arthur Berry Seres Therapeutics 75
#24 Je Kyun Lee LG 73
#25 Shomir Ghosh Millennium Pharmaceuticals 72
#25 Scott Joseph Thorne Simplisafe 72
#27 Marek Hytha Atomera Incorporated 69
#28 Yoel Fink MIT 67
#29 Brett Curry Smith & Wesson 66
#29 David Botstein Genentech 66
#31 Silvio Micali Corestreet 65
#31 Andrew P. Golden Walker Digital 65
#31 Duco W. Noordzij Gentex 65
#34 Haim Kopylovitz Emc 64
#34 Timothy Kelly Fusion Optix 64
#36 Stephen Hoge Modernatx 62
#36 Ivan Bassov Emc Ip Holding Company 62
#36 Richard L. Martin IBM 62
#39 Alexander Pasternak Merck 60
#39 Helen S. Raizen Emc 60
#41 Edith Mathiowitz Brown University 57
#42 Mark W. Grinstaff Boston University 56
#42 Michael S. Feld MIT 56
#42 Elazer R. Edelman MIT 56
#45 Andrew Jones Manta Devices 55
#45 Thorsten Knobloch The Procter & Gamble 55
#45 Donald W. Schoendorfer Baxter International 55
#45 Jeffrey M. Karp Brigham and Women's Hospital 55
#45 Daniel Nikolaev Nikovski Mitsubishi Electric 55
#45 Robert E. Cohen MIT 55

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