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Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 227 Patents

Rank (All Time): #3,313 of 105,732Top 4%
435 inventors
227 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 21 patents in 2024.peak 211993: 1 patents19931994: 2 patents1995: 4 patents1998: 5 patents19982000: 3 patents2001: 3 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 5 patents2004: 3 patents2005: 4 patents20052006: 4 patents2007: 6 patents2008: 2 patents20082009: 1 patents2010: 2 patents2011: 4 patents20112012: 6 patents2013: 7 patents2014: 8 patents20142015: 6 patents2016: 12 patents2017: 13 patents20172018: 13 patents2019: 20 patents2020: 14 patents20202021: 15 patents2022: 11 patents2023: 14 patents20232024: 21 patents2025: 11 patents2025

Top Inventors at Worcester Polytechnic Institute All Time

Showing 1–50 of 435 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 Yan Wang 14
2 Diran Apelian 13
3 Christopher A. Brown 11
#4 Yi Ma 9
#5 Ali S. Rangwala 8
#5 Ki H. Chon 8
#5 Marsha Rolle 8
#5 Raymond Dunn 8
#9 Cagdas D. Onal 7
#9 Gregory S. Fischer 7
#9 W. Grant McGimpsey 7
#12 Kristen Billiar 6
#12 Marko Popovic 6
#12 Reinhold Ludwig 6
#12 William R. Michalson 6
#16 David Cyganski 5
#16 Eric Gratz 5
#16 Haiyang Zou 5
#16 Ivan P. Mardilovich 5
#16 Janice D. Gobert 5
#16 Jamal S. Yagoobi 5
#16 Joseph Heelan 5
#16 Kemal S. Arsava 5
#16 Peder C. Pedersen 5
#16 R. James Duckworth 5
#16 Tanja Dominko 5
#16 William R. Moser 5
#16 Yitzhak Mendelson 5
#16 Zhangfeng Zheng 5
#30 Erik Edwin Engwall 4
#30 Glenn Gaudette 4
#30 Glenn Mahnken 4
#30 James J. Muller 4
#30 Jessica Shelsky 4
#30 John Benco 4
#30 John McNeill 4
#30 Michael A. Doyle 4
#30 Nicholas Workman 4
#30 Qina Sa 4
#30 Robert A. Peura 4
#41 Adam Clayton Powell, IV 3
#41 Andrew R. Vickery 3
#41 Bengisu Tulu 3
#41 Brajendra Mishra 3
#41 Christopher R. Lambert 3
#41 Craig A. Shue 3
#41 Dalin Tang 3
#41 Denis Kole 3
#41 Diane M. Strong 3
#41 Emmanuel Agu 3

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