Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Spring, TX ranks #183 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 655 patents from 336 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Spring, TX include Ford, IBM, ExxonMobil. That works out to 10.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 336 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Dragan B. Stojkovic Ford 26
2 Charles J. Stocker, IV IBM 18
3 Randy C. Tolman ExxonMobil 17
#4 Richard Thomas Hay Halliburton Energy Services 12
#5 Aaron Michael Beuterbaugh Halliburton Energy Services 8
#5 Stacy L. Wolff HP 8
#5 George D. Megason Hewlett Packard Enterprise 8
#5 Valiuddin Y. Ali HP 8
#9 Paul F. Rodney Halliburton Energy Services 7
#9 Daniel Brendan Voglewede Halliburton Energy Services 7
#11 Reed W. Spencer Baker Hughes Holdings 6
#11 Youhe Zhang Smith International 6
#11 Gary W. Sams 6
#11 Martin E. Sanders Io Therapeutics 6
#11 Thomas J. Flynn HP 6
#11 Pauline Akinyi Otieno Halliburton Energy Services 6
#17 Dion Podgurny F-1 Research Llc—Patent Series 5
#17 Edward J. Grave ExxonMobil 5
#17 Yuri Burhan Smith International 5
#17 Kevin L. Massaro HP 5
#17 James S. Sanchez Baker Hughes, A Ge Company 5
#17 Evan Lloyd Davies The Wellboss Company 5
#17 Paul Podsiadlo ExxonMobil 5
#17 Rabah S. Hamdi Dell Products 5
#25 Peter Zhang HP 4
#25 Weibin Zha Halliburton Energy Services 4
#25 Thorsten Schwefe Baker Hughes Holdings 4
#25 Raghavan V. Venugopal Hewlett Packard Enterprise 4
#25 John Kenneth Snyder Halliburton Energy Services 4
#25 Xu Huang The Procter & Gamble 4
#25 Robert A. Grigsby, Jr. Huntsman Petrochemical 4
#25 Quoc P. Pham HP 4
#25 Yuelin Shen Smith International 4
#25 Daniel Winslow Halliburton Energy Services 4
#35 Jibin Shi Smith International 3
#35 Jay Mark Dugat Robotis Co. 3
#35 David Quijano HP 3
#35 Nathan E. Fuller Smith International 3
#35 Donald P. Bushby Applied Biokinetics 3
#35 Dennis M. Collins Hemisphere Gps 3
#35 Keith D. Underwood Intel 3
#35 Beat Kuttel Canrig Drilling Technology 3
#35 Steven A. Morris Amoco 3
#35 Mark C. Glaser Halliburton Energy Services 3
#35 Weimin Pan Io-Mega Holding 3
#35 Mark A. Vorderbruggen Baker Hughes Holdings 3
#35 Paul Scott Northrop ExxonMobil 3
#35 Robin Castell HP 3
#35 Justin Fraczek Ameriforge Group 3
#35 Jeffery D. Kitzman Baker Hughes Holdings 3

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