Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Littleton, MA ranks #1,239 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,712 patents from 347 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Littleton, MA include Qualcomm, Boston Scientific Scimed, Dicerna Pharmaceuticals.

Showing 1–50 of 347 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Muhammad Nazmul Islam Qualcomm 472
2 Shawn Ryan Boston Scientific Scimed 97
3 Bob D. Brown Dicerna Pharmaceuticals 95
#4 Daniel Wigdor Tactual Labs 63
#5 John J. Court Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 41
#6 Eoin Lane IBM 39
#7 Brett Bracewell Bonner Sunrise R&D Holdings 37
#8 Parrish M. Galliher GE 36
#9 Sean R. Kirkpatrick Exogenesis 35
#10 David Richard Pfizer 32
#10 Bradford H. Hirth Genzyme 32
#12 Aleksandr V. Yurkovetskiy Mersana Therapeutics 31
#12 Jason D. LaVoie IBM 31
#12 James Cordingley The Gsi Group 31
#15 Bruce Follows Forma Therapeutics 30
#16 Edward L. Dickinson Google 29
#17 Joshua C. Hight Allen Medical Systems 28
#18 Daniel M. Newman Viasat 26
#19 David C. Fox Blue Baker 25
#20 John B. Francis Ncr 23
#21 Mark A. Johanson Scandius Biomendical 19
#21 Scott R. Coggins Covidien Lp 19
#21 Jerry Hutchison Digital Equipment 19
#24 Todd H. Rider MIT 18
#24 Mary K. Herndon RTX (Raytheon) 18
#24 William Yelle Sepracor 18
#24 William R. Manning American Power Conversion 18
#28 Martin Youngjin Pettersson Pfizer 17
#28 Alexander Yurkovetskiy Biopolymerix 17
#28 John M. Lance IBM 17
#31 Charles D. O'Neal, III Mevion Medical Systems 16
#31 Paul Glatkowski Eikos 16
#31 Edmund J. Balboni Analog Devices 16
#34 Anton Chernoff AMD 15
#34 Seth Jacob Rothschild Emc Ip Holding Company 15
#34 Cheng-Kuan Lu Lightelligence Pte. 15
#34 Siamack Ayandeh Hewlett Packard Enterprise 15
#38 Emily M. Squires Qd Vision 14
#38 Theodore L. Ross IBM 14
#38 Solomon Marini 3M 14
#38 John R. Bussiere Insulet 14
#42 Eckhard Bez Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organisation 13
#42 Michael Batten The Whistler Group 13
#42 Christopher S. Nordahl RTX (Raytheon) 13
#42 David Fox Casa Systems 13
#42 Todd P. Dinoia Certainteed 13
#42 Donald E. Cleary Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 13
#42 Gary A. Valaskovic New Objective 13
#42 Weinan Gao Conexant Systems 13
#42 A. Walter MacEachern Medical Parameters 13

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