Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Providence, RI ranks #522 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,412 patents from 1,397 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Providence, RI include Reebok International Limited, Becton, Dickinson And, Bose. That works out to 33.6 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,397 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Ricardo Vestuti Reebok International Limited 102
2 Mark Guarraia Becton, Dickinson And 73
3 Paul C. Williamson Bose 68
3 Gregor Mittersinker A.T.X. International 68
#5 Yoram Ringer Tyco Fire Products Lp 65
#6 Joseph Beagen Anvil International 58
#7 Frederic W. Schwartz Cable Electric Products 55
#8 Patrick Aebischer Brown University 51
#9 Gregory H. Altman Evolved By Nature 49
#10 Sumner MacDonald 48
#11 Justin Fisk Neurohabilitation 46
#11 Lawrence E. Larson Hughes Aircraft 46
#13 Nicholas J. Richardson 44
#13 James A. Salomon Pitney Bowes 44
#15 Jeffrey A. Feibelman Display Technologies 41
#16 Benjamin Andrew Bangser The Gillette Company 37
#17 Seth W. Snyder Uchicago Argonne 36
#18 Christian Wentz Ares Technologies 35
#18 John D. Jones Nordson 35
#20 Thomas J. Runco Depuy Synthes Products 33
#21 Antonio U. DeSimas Acushnet 32
#21 Marco Wo Droll Yankees 32
#23 John M. Danskin NVIDIA 31
#23 Peter Schultz Freeescale Semiconductor 31
#23 Gabriel Taubin IBM 31
#23 Stephen Lane Fountainhead Technologies 31
#27 Roger E. Welser Magnolia Solar 30
#28 Brian Jablonski Hasbro 29
#29 Dwaine F. Emerich Brown University 27
#29 Jennie Brown Covidien Lp 27
#31 Soojung Ham The Gillette Company 26
#31 Denice Spero BOE 26
#31 Christopher Hummel Guill Tool & Engineering Co. 26
#31 Charles M. Bartish, Jr. Depuy Spine 26
#35 Neil J. Dubois US Air Force 25
#35 Erin C. McDermott Acushnet 25
#35 Alfred T. Jeffries, III Ocg Microelectronic Materials 25
#38 Gregory Nicholas Stagliano Ohnemus Asc Engineered Solutions 24
#38 David Liu Samsung 24
#38 Ralph Beckman Design Lab 24
#38 Mark Stevens Sharp Laboratories Of America 24
#42 Rajeevan Amirtharajah Intel 23
#42 Ayako Takase The Gillette Company 23
#42 Robert Hutton, IV The Gillette Company 23
#42 Benjamin David Lux Nulabel Technologies 23
#42 Jeremy Conrad Howard Bacou-Dalloz Eye And Face Protection 23
#47 Paul Puniello Acushnet 22
#48 Richard Meyer Genlyte Thomas Group 21
#48 Christopher J. Sanzo Cherry Semiconductor 21
#48 Paul DaSilva-Jardine Pfizer 21

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