Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Katy, TX ranks #225 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 524 patents from 327 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Katy, TX include Covidien Lp, Alcatel Lucent, ExxonMobil. That works out to 23.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 327 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Yong Ma Covidien Lp 11
1 Tao Yang Alcatel Lucent 11
3 Zhenhua Zhou 10
#4 Peijun Jiang ExxonMobil 8
#4 Michael H. Johnson Baker Hughes Holdings 8
#6 Robert S. O'Brien Baker Hughes Holdings 7
#6 Keith Adams GE 7
#8 Jose L. Gilarranz Dresser-Rand 6
#8 Stig Rune Lennart Tenghamn Pgs Geophysical As 6
#8 Oleg A. Mazyar Baker Hughes Holdings 6
#11 Gang Hua Microsoft 5
#11 Lon W. Risinger Intel 5
#13 Ossama R. Sehsah Saudi Arabian Oil 4
#13 Nicholas Carrejo Baker Hughes Holdings 4
#13 Richard Timothy Coates Schlumberger Technology 4
#13 Songhua Chen Halliburton Energy Services 4
#13 Brian W. Walther Dow Global Technologies 4
#13 Glenn Charles Komplin Shell Oil Compny 4
#13 D. Scott Brittin Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. 4
#13 Purnima Surampudi Rivada Research 4
#21 Yawan Couturier Smith International 3
#21 Zhimin Tan GE 3
#21 Cesar G. Garcia Weatherford Technology Holdings 3
#21 James W. Kauffman Saudi Basic Industries 3
#21 Franck Excoffier IBM 3
#21 Kelly Gonzalez W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. 3
#21 Dirk B. Zinkweg Dow Global Technologies 3
#21 Yi Wang Applied Optoelectronics 3
#21 Ashers Partouche Schlumberger Technology 3
#21 Ilwhan Park Howmedica Osteonics 3
#21 Paul P. Froutan Xenex Disinfection Services 3
#21 Zitao Xu Landmark Graphics 3
#21 Emmanuel Coste Schlumberger Technology 3
#21 Roddie R. Smith Weatherford/Lamb 3
#21 John D. Ward GE 3
#21 Do Hoon Kim Samsung 3
#21 Robert F. Shelley Halliburton Energy Services 3
#21 Matthias Imhof ExxonMobil 3
#21 Donald Scott Coonrod Cameron International 3
#21 Forrest D. Heath 3
#41 Hongfei Wu IBM 2
#41 Zhongxin Huo Shell Oil Compny 2
#41 Stephen K. Chiu 2
#41 Todd Roper Carbo Ceramics 2
#41 Lijun Lin Schlumberger Technology 2
#41 Chee Kong Yee Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations 2
#41 Stephen D. Mason Schlumberger Technology 2
#41 Halit Dilber Baker Hughes Holdings 2
#41 Ya Sun Landmark Graphics 2
#41 Mohammad Hamidul Haque Saudi Arabian Oil 2

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