Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Katy, TX ranks #235 worldwide for total patents filed in 2024, with 621 patents from 328 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Katy, TX include Alcatel Lucent, Capital One Services, Covidien Lp. That works out to 28.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 328 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Tao Yang Alcatel Lucent 26
2 Viraj Chaudhary Capital One Services 22
3 Yong Ma Covidien Lp 14
#4 Gang Hua Microsoft 11
#5 Mohammed Sayed Saudi Arabian Oil 8
#5 Benjamin Vascal Knight G&H Diversified Manufacturing Lp 8
#5 Brian W. Walther Dow Global Technologies 8
#8 Keith Adams GE 7
#8 Ossama R. Sehsah Saudi Arabian Oil 7
#10 Thomas Hayes Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 6
#10 Jose Aparicio Gecko Robotics 6
#10 Paul R. Davies 6
#10 Jeremy Moloney Ecolab Usa 6
#10 Jin-Hong Chen Saudi Arabian Oil 6
#15 Lijun Lin Schlumberger Technology 5
#15 Samuel Cheng Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations 5
#15 Mohammad Hamzah Schlumberger Technology 5
#15 Jeremy Zhang Carbo Ceramics 5
#15 Andy Publes Caterpillar 5
#15 Stig Rune Lennart Tenghamn Pgs Geophysical As 5
#21 Hui-Hai Liu Saudi Arabian Oil 4
#21 AUSTIN REECE TUCKER Ess-Help 4
#21 Shannon L. Eichmann Saudi Arabian Oil 4
#21 Raja Vikram R. Pandya Landmark Graphics 4
#21 Weichang Li Saudi Arabian Oil 4
#21 Richard Meehan Schlumberger Technology 4
#21 Balkrishna Gadiyar Schlumberger Technology 4
#21 Yongfeng Kang Landmark Graphics 4
#21 Do Hoon Kim Samsung 4
#21 Zakhar Chizhov Schlumberger Technology 4
#21 David M. Tucker Ess-Help 4
#21 Byron Gladus Best, III Kraken Technology Holdings 4
#33 Colin Gordon Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories 3
#33 Todd Roper Carbo Ceramics 3
#33 Brenton J. Greska Cactus Wellhead 3
#33 Nathaniel Wicks Schlumberger Technology 3
#33 Dimitri M. Khramov Schlumberger Technology 3
#33 Yifan Guo Tencent 3
#33 Ankur D. Jariwala Cameron International 3
#33 Jason Ronald Torola Bmc Software 3
#33 Shunfeng Zheng Schlumberger Technology 3
#33 Xiaoqing Wu Tencent 3
#33 John Edwin Plumlee Kraken Technology Holdings 3
#33 Shukui Zhao Enflex 3
#33 Gayani W. Pinnawala Chevron 3
#33 Du Chen Apple 3
#33 Songhua Chen Halliburton Energy Services 3
#33 Qi Ma 3
#33 Richard Bingham M-I L.L.C. 3
#33 Vassilis Varveropoulos Schlumberger Technology 3

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