Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Cambridge, MA ranks #35 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 52,597 patents from 8,183 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Cambridge, MA include MIT, BOE, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. That works out to 444.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 8,183 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Robert S. Langer MIT 502
2 Fan Yang BOE 395
3 Muthiah Manoharan Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 323
#4 Guillermo J. Tearney The General Hospital 199
#5 George M. Church Harvard University 192
#5 Jeehwan Kim IBM 192
#7 George M. Whitesides Harvard University 187
#8 Gunnar J. Hanson G.D. Searle 182
#9 Feng Zhang MIT 180
#10 Tony S. Pan Intellectual Ventures 179
#11 Ravindra Kumar Acceleron Pharma 157
#12 David R. Liu Harvard University 154
#13 Philip Orlik Mitsubishi Electric 152
#14 Moungi G. Bawendi MIT 147
#15 Ramesh Raskar MIT 133
#16 David A. Weitz Harvard University 130
#17 Martin Maier Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 126
#18 Henrique S. Malvar Microsoft 123
#18 Yan Zhang Virginia Commonwealth University 123
#20 Karl R. Amundson E Ink Holdings 120
#21 Adam Soroca Jumptap 119
#22 Sean Simmons Research In Motion Limited 118
#22 Jinyun Zhang Mitsubishi Electric 118
#24 Daniel Griffith Anderson MIT 116
#25 David A. Edwards 115
#26 Jorey Ramer Jumptap 113
#27 Federico Capasso Harvard University 107
#27 Richard E. Olson Bristol-Myers Squibb 107
#29 Kyeong Jin Kim Lg Philips Lcd Co. 106
#29 Sun Hwa Lee Samsung 106
#31 Simon F. Williams Tepha 105
#31 Jonathon Reilly Sonos 105
#33 Jean-Luc Robert Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 99
#34 Vahid Tarokh AT&T 97
#35 David J. Perreault MIT 96
#36 Kevin Wayne Kuntz Epizyme 93
#37 Stuart Milstein Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 91
#37 Yedidya Dotan Emc 91
#39 Kevin Fitzgerald Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 85
#40 David William Kravitz T-Central 84
#40 Neil Gershenfeld MIT 84
#42 Jaewon Choi Samsung 83
#43 David J. Mooney Harvard University 82
#44 Brian Bettencourt Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 81
#44 Michael A. Evans Medtronic 81
#44 Balkrishen Bhat Isis Pharmaceuticals 81
#47 Roy G. Gordon Harvard University 80
#48 Francesco Pompei Exergen 78
#49 Nir N. Shavit Oracle 76
#49 Colin H. Murphy Deka Products Limited Parternship 76

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