Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Groton, MA ranks #1,252 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,688 patents from 413 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Groton, MA include Intel, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, Corindus. That works out to 1986.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 413 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Vivek Gupta Intel 208
2 Sears Merritt Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance 64
3 Jon Taylor Corindus 58
3 Ian McLaughlin Insulet 58
#5 Ann M. Wollrath Oracle 49
#5 John Sullivan Transmedics 49
#7 Uwe Helmut Jost Microsoft 47
#8 Mary Ellen Zurko IBM 45
#9 David Beaulieu Channel Medsystems 42
#10 Steven F. Best IBM 40
#11 Glenn Dearth Oracle 37
#11 Thomas Wickham Genvec 37
#13 Donald Fedyk Nortel Networks Limited 36
#14 Gordon Row Mevion Medical Systems 35
#15 Richard Kingsborough Spansion Llc. 32
#16 Michael Newell Materion 31
#17 Joseph A. Levendusky Boston Scientific Scimed 29
#17 Michael W. Sutherland Corvia Medical 29
#17 Peter C. Santoro Bose 29
#20 Roberto O. Pellizzari Philip Morris Usa 28
#21 Michael A. Ashburn, Jr. Mediatek 24
#21 Christopher Petroff Lightlab Imaging 24
#23 Scott E. Meninger Cavium, Llc. 22
#23 Mark Gordon Libby Microsoft 22
#25 Donald Barry Medica 21
#25 Michael R. Flannery Gateway Consultants Group 21
#25 Geoffrey D. Moeser Cabot 21
#25 David Lawrence Firman Gray Pfizer 21
#29 John P. Haven RTX (Raytheon) 20
#29 Edgar S. Thaxton Electric Boat 20
#29 David Fusari Sentillion 20
#32 Dennis P. J. Ting Emc 19
#32 Matthew F. Chrobak Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration 19
#32 Eric S. Noya Digital Equipment 19
#35 David C. Onthank Lantheus Medical Imaging 18
#35 Margaret Taylor Becton, Dickinson And 18
#35 John E. Bishop Alcon Laboratories 18
#38 Robert L. Foster Reachforce 16
#38 Annan Michael Mozeika Irobot 16
#38 David E. Butz Data Packaging 16
#38 Mark Curtin Transition Automation 16
#42 Sundar Balasubramanian Microsoft 15
#42 Pascal Miller Qc Optics 15
#42 Dennis Ting Emc Ip Holding Company 15
#42 James M. Knittel Terarecon 15
#46 John K. Trimper Verizon 14
#46 Thomas B. Hawkins Digital Equipment 14
#46 Trina Rae Vian MIT 14
#46 Hugh F. Stoddart Somanetics 14
#50 Helmut W. Klotzsch Thermedics Detection 13

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