Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Irving, TX ranks #388 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 369 patents from 178 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Irving, TX include 7-Eleven, Halliburton Energy Services, Verizon. That works out to 1.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 178 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy 7-Eleven 17
2 Thomas Jules Frosell Halliburton Energy Services 16
3 Kalyani Bogineni Verizon 15
#4 Rakesh Goel Lennox Industries 14
#5 Muhammad Ahsan Naim Sprint Spectrum 9
#5 Jing Chang Huang IBM 9
#7 Imtiyaz Shaikh Verizon 8
#8 Sarath Vakacharla 7-Eleven 7
#8 Umesh Gokhale Lennox Industries 7
#10 Stephen William O'Brien Tsi Products 6
#11 Brad A. Cobler Poly-America 5
#11 Jalpa Shah Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 5
#11 Sven Roy Lofstrom Sikorsky Aircraft 5
#14 Sumit Patel IBM 4
#14 Todd Downing Aibuy 4
#14 Gayathri Sundar Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (Usa) 4
#14 Arndt Andresen Hilti Aktiengesellschaft 4
#14 Joshua Allan Edler Textron Innovations 4
#14 Thomas Purcell Alphatec Spine 4
#14 Melean Visnick Reata Pharmaceuticals Holdings 4
#21 Lakshmi N. Chakarapani Verizon 3
#21 Yi Yu Blackberry Limited 3
#21 Binny Asarikuniyil Directv 3
#21 Burt L. Vialpando IBM 3
#21 Maninder Singh Suri 7-Eleven 3
#21 John Snyder Eco Holding 1 Gmbh 3
#21 Sivanaga Ravi Kumar Chunduru Venkata 3
#21 Ayham Al-Banna Arris Enterprises 3
#21 Madan Mohan Chinnam 7-Eleven 3
#21 Jayprakash Charavda Lennox Industries 3
#21 Sanjay Ahuja Verizon 3
#21 David H. Lu AT&T 3
#21 Site Li Landscape Forms 3
#21 John Richard Taylor Panzura 3
#35 Alex Alekhine Tamko Building Products 2
#35 Jack Anthony Smith Motorola 2
#35 Venkata S. Adimatyam Verizon 2
#35 Binayak Biswal Verizon 2
#35 Sameer Gavade Verizon 2
#35 Rosa Maria Leal Lennox Industries 2
#35 Firoz Ahmed Commscope Technologies 2
#35 Bruce Johnson US Dept of Energy 2
#35 Stephanie Stewart 2
#35 Craig Warner HP 2
#35 Alvaro Aguilar Texas Instruments 2
#35 Anjaneya Pericharla Verizon 2
#35 Lisa Nerren 2
#35 Ravi Kumar Kurva 7-Eleven 2
#35 Daniel Aberle Nch 2
#35 Srinivas S. Halembar Verizon 2

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