Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Irving, TX ranks #384 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 318 patents from 147 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Irving, TX include Sprint Spectrum, Blackberry Limited, Verizon. That works out to 1.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 147 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Muhammad Ahsan Naim Sprint Spectrum 24
2 Yi Yu Blackberry Limited 17
3 Venkata S. Adimatyam Verizon 15
#4 Sameer Gavade Verizon 14
#5 Satish Gundabathula Damaka 9
#5 James Paul Warden Blackberry Limited 9
#7 Manah M. Khalil Verizon 7
#8 Melean Visnick Reata Pharmaceuticals Holdings 6
#8 Brad A. Cobler Poly-America 6
#8 Sankar Ram Dhanabalan Verizon 6
#11 Ben Allen Campbell Tekelec 5
#12 John J. Michelsen Ca 4
#12 Sunil D. Limbasia Verizon 4
#12 Federico Fraccaroli Nokia 4
#12 Thomas Jules Frosell Halliburton Energy Services 4
#12 Rene Purnadi Blackberry Limited 4
#12 Mousumi Dasgupta Verizon 4
#12 Imtiyaz Shaikh Verizon 4
#12 Daniel G. Flaherty Varidesk 4
#20 Sudharsan Selvakumar Verizon 3
#20 Abhilash Paul Verizon 3
#20 Ashutosh K. Sureka Verizon 3
#20 Nancy Davis Halliburton Energy Services 3
#20 Rakesh Goel Lennox Industries 3
#20 Alfonso Jones AT&T 3
#20 Sanjay Ahuja Verizon 3
#20 Alan Wright Caris Mpi 3
#20 Thomas Purcell Alphatec Spine 3
#20 Muhammed Shaphy Verizon 3
#20 Shashikant Maheshwari Nokia Siemens Networks Oy 3
#31 David R. Schlichte Bell Helicopter Textron 2
#31 Lakshmi N. Chakarapani Verizon 2
#31 John G. Fischer Delphi Technologies 2
#31 Jagannath K. Rangarajan Verizon 2
#31 Srinivas Tatavarty Verizon 2
#31 Craig Warner HP 2
#31 Siddharth Pandey Verizon 2
#31 Gautam Das Microsoft 2
#31 Yogesh Sawant Verizon 2
#31 John Snyder Eco Holding 1 Gmbh 2
#31 Adrian Boariu Nokia Siemens Networks Oy 2
#31 Omar A. Abou-Khamis Verizon 2
#31 John Richard Taylor Panzura 2
#31 Ayham Al-Banna Arris Enterprises 2
#31 Joe Hollman 2
#31 Rose Qingyang Hu Blackberry Limited 2
#31 Dolapo O. Kukoyi Verizon 2
#31 Michael Q. Wang IBM 2
#49 Raja P. Narayanan Nortel Networks Limited 1
#49 Andrew Foster Google 1

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