Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Spring, TX ranks #222 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 569 patents from 309 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Spring, TX include IBM, Ford, Dell Products. That works out to 9.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 309 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Charles J. Stocker, IV IBM 14
2 Dragan B. Stojkovic Ford 11
2 Rabah S. Hamdi Dell Products 11
#4 Richard Thomas Hay Halliburton Energy Services 10
#4 Kevin L. Massaro HP 10
#6 Paul F. Rodney Halliburton Energy Services 9
#6 Charles S. Yeh ExxonMobil 9
#8 Aaron Michael Beuterbaugh Halliburton Energy Services 8
#9 Valiuddin Y. Ali HP 7
#9 Stacy L. Wolff HP 7
#11 George D. Megason Hewlett Packard Enterprise 6
#12 Daniel Winslow Halliburton Energy Services 5
#12 Donald P. Bushby Applied Biokinetics 5
#12 Gary W. Sams 5
#12 Youhe Zhang Smith International 5
#12 Hoang Van Le Northwestern University 5
#12 Pauline Akinyi Otieno Halliburton Energy Services 5
#12 Evan Lloyd Davies The Wellboss Company 5
#12 Keith J. Orgeron T&T Engineering Services 5
#12 Mark A. Vorderbruggen Baker Hughes Holdings 5
#21 Beat Kuttel Canrig Drilling Technology 4
#21 Isaac Lagnado HP 4
#21 Bruce Stauffer Baker Hughes Holdings 4
#21 Michael Guerin Baker Hughes Holdings 4
#21 Rommel M. Oates Praxair Technology 4
#21 Paul S. Carman Baker Hughes Holdings 4
#21 O. Angus Sites ExxonMobil 4
#21 Christopher J. Morgan The Boeing 4
#21 Alexander Nikolaevich Nadeev Schlumberger Technology 4
#21 Ronald Johannes Dirksen Halliburton Energy Services 4
#21 William E. Bond ExxonMobil 4
#32 Yuri Burhan Smith International 3
#32 Edward J. Grave ExxonMobil 3
#32 Frank Benjamin Springett National Oilwell Varco 3
#32 Troy A. Della Fiora Hewlett Packard Enterprise 3
#32 Victor Stolpman Nokia 3
#32 Yuelin Shen Smith International 3
#32 Ryan Patrick Collins Halliburton Energy Services 3
#32 Khoi Q. Trinh Baker Hughes Holdings 3
#32 Randy C. Tolman ExxonMobil 3
#32 Ron Dirksen Halliburton Energy Services 3
#32 Elizabeth A. Benham Phillips Petroleum 3
#32 Joseph Bergmeister, III Chevron 3
#32 Eric Prim Pilot Energy Solutions 3
#32 Chi So HP 3
#32 Robin Castell HP 3
#32 Paul Scott Northrop ExxonMobil 3
#32 Thomas J. Flynn HP 3
#32 Pranay Asthana Halliburton Energy Services 3
#32 Randall V. Guest Baker Hughes Holdings 3

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