Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Wakefield, MA ranks #1,744 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,901 patents from 329 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Wakefield, MA include Symbotic, Motorola, Hansa Medical Products. That works out to 70.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 329 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 John G. Lert, Jr. Symbotic 109
2 Robert C. Kane Motorola 67
3 Eric D. Blom Hansa Medical Products 59
#4 Phillip Clark Millipore 45
#4 David Darrell Miller E Ink Holdings 45
#6 Michael S. Jaeb Nexpak 43
#7 Daniel J. Burns Z-Medica 42
#8 William Tao Shi Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 33
#9 Ian Tinkler Keurig Green Mountain 32
#10 Thomas A. Williams Lam 29
#11 Eric Hyman Cosco Management 28
#11 Solomon D. Kattar Merck 28
#13 Sripati Sah Persimmon Technologies 27
#14 Edward Rodriguez Solais Lighting 26
#14 Patrick R. Conlon Mersana Therapeutics 26
#14 Marc Laverdiere Entegris 26
#17 Guixue Yu Bristol-Myers Squibb 24
#17 James C. Morris Gte Products 24
#19 Kathleen Seyb Ra Pharmaceuticals 22
#19 Vittorio Bucchieri Verizon 22
#19 Natarajan Thirumurugan Osram Sylvania 22
#22 Melissa M. Dascoli Zoll Medical 21
#23 Jon F. Edd The General Hospital 20
#24 Peter Swai Philips Lighting Holding B.V. 19
#25 Steve Lepke Cosco Management 18
#25 William Robert Entley Versum Materials Us 18
#27 Flavia Pastore Irobot 17
#28 John C. Carrick Tellabs Operations 16
#29 Robert Buffone Yottaa 15
#29 Thomas A. Snellgrove IBM 15
#29 David R. Widomski W.L. Gore & Associates Gmbh 15
#29 Steven Lepke Ciba Corning Diagnostics 15
#29 Jennifer O'Neil Thermo Fisher 15
#34 William Glover Genetics Research 14
#35 David Morrell Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 13
#35 Jeffrey Paquette RTX (Raytheon) 13
#35 Tyler Rockwell Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates 13
#38 Glenn S. Baker Cogent Light Technologies 12
#38 Gabriel Hebert Amazon 12
#38 Gregory Kenny The First Years 12
#38 Vincent L. Cocco Polaroid 12
#38 John Ryan Kerrigan Novartis Ag 12
#43 Andrew W. Shen The Gillette Company 11
#43 Stephen D. Shoap MIT 11
#43 Colin S. Whelan RTX (Raytheon) 11
#46 Timothy M. Pastore Microscan Systems 10
#46 Kevin Kelley Virtualagility 10
#46 Peter Davis Cisco 10
#46 Gregory Walter HILLER Pfizer 10
#46 Richard E. Merrill Arthur D. Little 10

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