Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Worcester, MA ranks #761 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 4,449 patents from 1,103 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Worcester, MA include University of Pennsylvania, IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing. That works out to 21.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,103 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Guangping Gao University of Pennsylvania 118
2 Christian Mueller IBM 114
3 Subhash Gupta Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing 99
#4 Zissis A. Dardas RTX (Raytheon) 71
#5 Timothy A. Riley Nektar Therapeutics 47
#6 Nathan T. Smith Anderson Power Products 46
#7 Michael N. Helmus Schneider (Usa) 44
#8 Gary R. Ostroff Alpha-Beta Technology 43
#9 Valentin Gapontsev Ipg Photonics 42
#10 Dan Wang Foxconn 41
#10 Nicholas Leventis Aerogel Technologies 41
#12 David H. Pitcher Bose 40
#12 David J. Livingston Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 40
#14 Chun-Ting Chen Healthstream Taiwan 32
#15 Krenar Komoni Tive 31
#16 Robert P. Wierzbicki Emc 28
#17 Michele L. R. Heffernan Sepracor 27
#17 Min Wan AbbVie 27
#19 Laura E. Christakis Boston Scientific Scimed 26
#20 Nathan Cummings Boston Scientific Scimed 25
#20 Jeffery R. Vautin Bose 25
#22 Robert H. Brown, Jr. University Of Massachusetts 24
#23 Ronald F. Vitaris Smith & Nephew 23
#23 Alesia Tringale Emc Ip Holding Company 23
#23 Allen R. Padwa 23
#26 Nandakumar Selvaraj Vital Connect 22
#26 Jennifer M. Perez Abb Vie 22
#26 Steven M. Anderson Boston Scientific Scimed 22
#26 Adrian D. Hobson Abb Vie 22
#30 George E. Wright Bridge Pharma 21
#31 Jin Wuk Sung Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 20
#32 Gregory P. Prokopowicz Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 19
#32 Craig Peterson Wagner Spray Tech 19
#32 Adrian T. VanderSpek Exagrid Systems 19
#32 David J. Fustino Bose 19
#32 Robert L. Blackadar Spectrum Diversified Designs 19
#32 Marc D. Andelman Biosource, Incorporated 19
#32 Edward N. Haddad, Jr. Pioneer Consolidated 19
#32 Geoffrey B. Ladwig Nortel Networks Limited 19
#40 John Goodchild Hybridon 17
#40 Mohammad Faisal Zaman Essex Group 17
#40 Anthony Possemato Cell Signaling Technology 17
#40 Stephen E. Fox Saint-Gobain Abrasives 17
#40 Russell Couturier IBM 17
#45 Ramanujam Vedantham Saint-Gobain Abrasifs 16
#46 Dan H. Wolaver Tektronix 15
#46 Mark J. Kapeckas Shipley Company, L.L.C. 15
#46 Neil Harvey Rolls-Royce Plc 15
#46 Joseph R. Ellsworth RTX (Raytheon) 15
#46 Benjamin C. Lippitt Bose 15

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