Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Rockport, MA ranks #3,489 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 850 patents from 101 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Rockport, MA include Xyleco, Mitsubishi Electric, 3Com. That works out to 169.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 101 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Thomas Craig Masterman Xyleco 106
2 Kieran Parsons Mitsubishi Electric 57
3 James Scott Hiscock 3Com 49
#4 Costel Biloiu Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 47
#5 Christopher A. Rowland Boston Scientific Limited 42
#6 Siamak Salimian Applied Materials 37
#7 William M. Keeffe Gte Products 36
#8 Peter Rose Eaton 30
#9 Timothy Higgins Sanford 26
#9 Richard Remo Fontana Desktop Metal 26
#11 Robert C. Lindberg Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 23
#12 John D. Pollock Advanced Ion Beam Technology 22
#12 Eric L. Mears Varian 22
#14 John W. Vanderpot Axcelis Technologies 21
#15 Ernest E. Allen Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 17
#16 Eric D. Wilson Applied Materials 14
#17 George Adaniya Omni Flow Company 12
#17 Rajesh Dorai Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 12
#19 Edmund Montello Konarka Technologies 10
#19 John A. Frontiero Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 10
#21 Adrian Delforge Analogic 9
#21 Eric M. Patey Microsoft 9
#21 Michael M. Kaplan AT&T 9
#21 Herbert O. Hultin Advanced Protein Technologies 9
#25 Karen Panetta Trustees Of Tufts College 8
#25 Christopher Noren New England Biolabs 8
#25 Brian Pollock Seagate Technology 8
#25 Harold Persing Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 8
#29 Lauren Higgins New England Biolabs 7
#29 Peter M. Perthou 7
#29 Gregg Norris Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 7
#29 James M. Killian 7
#33 Randall Stevens Centrexion Therapeutics 6
#33 Golshan Coleiny Ledvance Gmbh 6
#35 John G. Brisson MIT 5
#35 Andrew B. Wittkower Ibis Technology 5
#35 James Hirvonen US Army 5
#38 Jack H. Mendelson The Mclean Hospital 4
#38 Christopher M. Drake Praxis Holding 4
#38 David Ritchie Peter Maccallum Cancer Institute 4
#38 Fredrick W. Paget Gte Products 4
#42 Nancy K. Mello The Mclean Hospital 3
#42 Jeff Tripp 3
#42 Michael Petrino Bsh Hausgeräte Gmbh 3
#42 Pritesh Sharma Broadcom 3
#42 Simon T. Dillon Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 3
#42 William G. Callahan Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 3
#48 William T. Levay Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 2
#48 Louis Edward Evans Varian 2
#48 Marshall N. Winkler 2

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