Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Austin, TX ranks #12 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 6,394 patents from 2,861 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Austin, TX include Yeti Coolers, Via Technologies, Dell Products. That works out to 6.7 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,861 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Roy Joseph Seiders Yeti Coolers 63
2 G. Glenn Henry Via Technologies 39
3 Steve Charles Nichols Yeti Coolers 36
#4 Deeder M. Aurongzeb Dell Products 30
#5 Guy L. Guthrie IBM 26
#6 Vedvyas Shanbhogue Intel 24
#6 Anirban Roy Medtronic 24
#6 Jeffrey A. Stuecheli IBM 24
#9 Su Liu Delta Electronics 23
#10 Keith R. Walker IBM 22
#10 Mark D. Hall Fca Us Llc. 22
#12 Rhonda L. Childress IBM 21
#12 Liam B. Quinn Dell Products 21
#12 Scott White AT&T 21
#12 David Raymond Lutz NVIDIA 21
#12 Matthew Joseph Petrillo Yeti Coolers 21
#12 Stuart Allen Berke Dell Products 21
#18 Kevin C. McConnell IBM 20
#19 Colin Eddy Via Alliance Semiconductor Co. 19
#19 Jason W. Brandt Intel 19
#19 John Alan Tolman Yeti Coolers 19
#22 Young Hoon Kwon Futurewei Technologies 18
#23 Bernard Ku AT&T 16
#23 Marc Sullivan Bertrum Technologies 16
#25 Syed M. Alam Everspin Technologies 15
#25 Michael A. Sadd Nxp Usa 15
#27 Sungho Moon Newracom 14
#27 Dinesh K. Jain Via Alliance Semiconductor Co. 14
#27 Timothy M. Lambert Dell Products 14
#27 Giles R. Frazier IBM 14
#27 Heather M. Hinton IBM 14
#32 Malcolm S. Allen-Ware IBM 13
#32 Kanak B. Agarwal IBM 13
#32 Santosh Sharma Navitas Semiconductor Limited 13
#32 Mukund P. Khatri Dell Products 13
#32 Mark Bradley Davis Amazon 13
#32 James M. O'Connor AMD 13
#32 Carlton A. Andrews Dell Products 13
#32 Christopher Danson Mattersight 13
#32 Mark B. Stevens IBM 13
#41 Terry Parks Via Technologies 12
#41 Yaoguang Wei IBM 12
#41 Aniruddha Satoskar Cirrus Logic 12
#41 Hsin-Yu Chen TSMC 12
#41 Hung Q. Le IBM 12
#41 William J. Starke IBM 12
#41 Karthick Rajamani IBM 12
#48 Stephan Gaskins Via Technologies 11
#48 Kamal Zamer Ebay 11
#48 Eric Zavesky AT&T 11

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