Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Framingham, MA ranks #414 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 7,675 patents from 1,271 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Framingham, MA include Intel, Nuclera, The Mathworks. That works out to 106.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,271 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Gilbert M. Wolrich Intel 270
2 Richard J. Paolini, Jr. Nuclera 166
3 Pieter J. Mosterman The Mathworks 133
#4 Hilmar Lehnert Sonos 81
#5 Steven J. Frank Ultrata 73
#6 Romesh R. Subramanian Dyne Therapeutics 70
#7 Paul S. Charifson Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 66
#8 Marvin L. Vestal Virgin Instruments 63
#9 Garth A. Dickie IBM 62
#10 Lynn Doucette-Stamm Sanofi Pasteur 59
#11 Michael Louis Miller Immunogen 56
#12 Adi Ofer Emc 55
#13 Donald E. Chickering, III Acusphere 53
#14 Julius F. Remenar Alkermes Pharma Ireland Limited 52
#15 Kristopher William Schulz The Gillette Company 44
#16 Martin W. Rupich American Superconductor 43
#17 Steven J. Blacker Corindus 42
#18 Douglas A. Voorhies NVIDIA 41
#18 Vijay Raghavan The Mathworks 41
#20 Jennifer H. Czerepinski Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics 40
#21 Daniel Castel Emc 39
#22 Michael Cooperman Gte Laboratories Incorporated 36
#22 George E. Hartwell 36
#24 Daniel M. Fogarty Hunter Douglas 35
#24 John A. Hingston Boston Scientific Scimed 35
#24 John T. Foreman Q2100 35
#27 Jinwang Xu Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 34
#27 John H. Jones The Institute For Pharmaceutical Discovery 34
#27 Moshe Yanai Emc 34
#30 Bryce A. Harrison Morphic Therapeutic 33
#30 Abraham Scaria Genzyme 33
#30 Gustavo Fontana Bose 33
#30 Lakshmi Bhagat Idera Pharmaceuticals 33
#34 Brett Haarala Covidien Lp 32
#34 Ronald Kelley Motorola 32
#36 Rachit Ohri Covidien Lp 31
#37 Petros Kotidis Axsun Technologies 30
#37 Albert R. LeBoeuf Alcon Laboratories 30
#37 Michael M. Lipp Civitas Therapeutics 30
#37 Guoyou Xu Enanta Pharmaceuticals 30
#41 Carl F. Buhrer Gte Laboratories Incorporated 29
#42 Hana Moreshet Emc 28
#42 Raymond Avitable Covidien Lp 28
#42 Socheavy D. Heng Emc Ip Holding Company 28
#45 Per Onnerud Boston-Power 27
#45 Thomas Gaudette The Mathworks 27
#45 David J. Calderwood Abbott 27
#48 Carol Iturralde Cisco 25
#48 Jay Gainsboro Securus Technologies 25
#48 Xiangyun Ye Cognex 25

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