Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Dallas, TX ranks #81 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 1,540 patents from 850 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Dallas, TX include Bank of America, Samsung, Micron. That works out to 1.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 850 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Manu Kurian Bank of America 74
2 Jianzhong Zhang Samsung 20
3 Steven Jeffrey Wallach Micron 15
#4 Srinivasan Balasubramanian Qualcomm 14
#4 Kai Chirca Texas Instruments 14
#6 Sreenivasan K. Koduri Texas Instruments 13
#7 Todd W. Benson Motive Drilling Technologies 12
#8 James Dan Vick, Jr. Halliburton Energy Services 11
#8 Mark S. Rodder Texas Instruments 11
#10 Sebastian Schaefer National University Of Singapore 10
#10 Kevin T. Burt Fortress Iron, Lp 10
#10 Jaime Felix Barajas Traxxas 10
#13 Jeffrey Alan West Texas Instruments 9
#14 Vikram Chandrasekhar Texas Instruments 8
#14 Thomas D. Bonifield Texas Instruments 8
#14 Sourabh Ravindran Samsung 8
#14 Devang H. Parekh Toyota 8
#18 Carolyn Eckert Bmic 7
#18 Russell L. Mueller Textron Innovations 7
#18 Carlos Caicedo Bmic 7
#18 D. Scott Dewald Avegant 7
#18 Argyrios Dellis Texas Instruments 7
#18 Natalie Cruz Bmic 7
#18 Michael Comiskey Bmic 7
#18 Carol Monza Bmic 7
#18 Yang You BOE 7
#18 David Matthew Thompson Texas Instruments 7
#18 Matthew Carlyle Sherstad Fortress Iron, Lp 7
#29 Kirk A. Miller RTX (Raytheon) 6
#29 Vikas Gupta Texas Instruments 6
#29 Lijun Sun Synta Pharmaceuticals 6
#29 Achilleas Papakostas The Nielsen Company (Us) 6
#29 Elizabeth Costner Stewart Texas Instruments 6
#29 Haining Liu Western Digital Technologies 6
#29 Robert D. Pedersen Case-Mate 6
#29 Luigi Colombo Texas Instruments 6
#29 Alastair Edwin McAuley Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited 6
#29 Chad Dorsey Chad Dorsey Design 6
#29 Levi Charles Hefner Textron Innovations 6
#40 Deric Wayne Waters Texas Instruments 5
#40 Neal Davis Johnston Amgen 5
#40 Ashley Cook Zoccam Technologies 5
#40 Kyle Adams Juniper Networks 5
#40 Michael O'Brien Novasignal 5
#40 Vinay K. Jain Arog Pharmaceuticals 5
#40 Crystal Maung 7-Eleven 5
#40 Terry Alan Bartlett Texas Instruments 5
#40 Jerry W. Vande Sande Trinity North American Freight Car 5
#40 Trong Nghia Nguyen 7-Eleven 5
#50 Sumant Krishnan Composite Surgical 4

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