Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Leander, TX ranks #770 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 165 patents from 79 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Leander, TX include Dell Products, IBM, Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company. That works out to 2.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 79 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Andrew T. Sultenfuss Dell Products 12
2 Tao Liu IBM 9
3 Brad P. Pohl Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company 8
3 Jeffrey A. Sabrowski IBM 8
#5 James A. Pafumi IBM 6
#5 Borna J. Obradovic Samsung 6
#7 Ricardo L. Martinez Dell Products 5
#7 Howard N. Anglin IBM 5
#9 John M. Green Microport Orthopedics Holdings 4
#9 Gary L. Whisenhunt Freeescale Semiconductor 4
#11 Michael L. Lamb IBM 3
#11 Ghassan Yammine Netapp 3
#11 Philip G. Williams IBM 3
#11 Kimberly D. McCall IBM 3
#11 James A. Welker Freeescale Semiconductor 3
#16 Douglas J. Joseph IBM 2
#16 Steven L. Pratt IBM 2
#16 Weijing Chen AT&T 2
#16 Flaviu Cristian Chis Dell Products 2
#16 Michael Brendan Rodgers ExxonMobil 2
#16 Raphael P. Chancey IBM 2
#16 Jason Hobbs Iii Holdings 12 2
#16 Troy Cline IBM 2
#16 Richard L. Simmons 3M 2
#16 John S. Hepp Sercel 2
#16 Anthony T. Hayes Vuv Analytics 2
#16 Manuel Novoa HP 2
#16 Lawrence E. Knepper Dell Products 2
#16 Roy A. Wood, Jr. IBM 2
#16 Rick Hogge PayPal 2
#16 Raja V. Tamma Nxp Usa 2
#16 Robert Scott Manning IBM 2
#16 David Russell Tipple Nxp Usa 2
#16 Thomas Alexander Shows Dell Products 2
#35 Peter J. Wilson Nxp Usa 1
#35 Kathryn Loeffler Admittance Technologies 1
#35 Gerardo Molina Arthrocare 1
#35 Penny Jurss Visa 1
#35 Wayne D. Roth Luminex 1
#35 Mark C. Larue 1
#35 Christopher F. Graf National Instruments 1
#35 David Werner Bachmann IBM 1
#35 Dean Williams Peters Dell Products 1
#35 Christopher W. Ramirez Dell Products 1
#35 Michael Taylor Sprint Communications 1
#35 Paul K. Bullis IBM 1
#35 Stephen James Watt IBM 1
#35 Matthew C. Curtis National Instruments 1
#35 Douglas J. Resnick Motorola 1
#35 Randall Smith Dell Products 1

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