Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Melrose, MA ranks #1,136 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 2,951 patents from 446 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Melrose, MA include Sharkninja Operating, Koniniklijke Philips N.V., Osram Sylvania. That works out to 99.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 446 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Joyce Chien Tu Sharkninja Operating 73
2 Molly Lara Flexman Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 67
3 John O. Wright Osram Sylvania 63
#4 Prakash Narayan Govindan Gradiant 61
#4 Kevin D. Bowers Emc 61
#6 Victor Fong Emc Ip Holding Company 60
#7 Marco Giovanardi Clearmotion 53
#8 Thomas J. Foth Pitney Bowes 51
#9 Man Nguyen Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 50
#10 Brian D. Musselman Ionsense 48
#11 Daniel J. Sexton Dyax 43
#12 Pietro Russo 42
#13 Arijit Banerjee GE 40
#14 William R. Breen Nightingale 38
#15 Michael E. Phillips Avid Technology 34
#16 Christopher R. Deuel Boston Scientific Scimed 33
#17 Sunil Krishna Sainis E Ink Holdings 32
#18 Pericles Calias Shire Human Genetic Therapies 29
#18 Andrew F. Roberts Ab Initio Technology 29
#18 Wah-Kwan Lin Rapid7 29
#21 Andrew Gauthier Berkshire Grey Operating Company 28
#22 Makhlouf Redjdal 6K 25
#22 Ming Ji Maquet (Suzhou) Co. 25
#24 Agnes Csilla Domotor Gem Co. 24
#24 Richard S. Himmelwright Rexam Graphics 24
#26 Selma Svendsen Irobot 23
#26 Fupeng Ma Novartis Ag 23
#28 Abdelghani Achab Merck 22
#28 John Carl Jacobson GE 22
#30 Torre Michelle BYDLON Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 21
#31 Anna Borodovsky Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 20
#31 David A. Colucci American Power Conversion 20
#31 George W. Pratt, Jr. MIT 20
#31 John Joyal Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals 20
#35 Alexander L. Watters Harvard University 19
#35 Arthur E. Blume Google 19
#35 Andrey A. Boukharov Monsanto Technology 19
#35 Andrew J. McRiner Dart Neuroscience, (Cayman) 19
#35 Eugene H. Cook Draper Laboratory 19
#40 Jonathan Matthew Bond Affera 18
#40 Ryan Faucette Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited 18
#40 Gadalia Vainer Mmi-Ipco 18
#40 Scott C. Holden Varian 18
#44 Thomas L. Carroll US Air Force 17
#44 Brandon MacDonald E Ink Holdings 17
#44 Marvin Ryou G.I. Windows 17
#44 R. Daniel Ferguson Physical Sciences 17
#44 Richard M. Lloyd RTX (Raytheon) 17
#49 Philip A. Johnson Aavid Engineering 16
#49 Shaun Logan Oracle 16

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