Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

Austin, TX ranks #31 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 146,494 patents from 18,064 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Austin, TX include AMD, Freeescale Semiconductor, IBM. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,651–14,700 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Jon Cardenas AMD 1
#12140 Debby Gumto Clarke Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 John C. Schief IBM 1
#12140 Wendell E. Howard 1
#12140 Paul Spencer Liechty Innography 1
#12140 Alan Gober Dell Usa 1
#12140 Robin K. Key Dell Usa 1
#12140 Melanie T. Moy 21St Century Technologies 1
#12140 Mahesh Kumar Rathi IBM 1
#12140 Robert W. French National Semiconductor 1
#12140 Audra Kelley USAA 1
#12140 Carl Crawford Standard Microsystems 1
#12140 Timur Tabi IBM 1
#12140 Philip Yen-Tang Cheng IBM 1
#12140 Chris Aniszozyk IBM 1
#12140 E. Glynn Bloomquist Barton Medical 1
#12140 Hassan F. Al-Sukhni Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Muqeet Ali Trend Micro Incorporated 1
#12140 Todd Joseph Kalauhala Manning Trend Micro Incorporated 1
#12140 Joseph Yves Chan Yan Fong Motorola 1
#12140 Wayne Lieberman Entorian Technologies 1
#12140 Umesh Chandra Chejara Globalfoundries 1
#12140 Dwight Elmer Galbi Analog Devices 1
#12140 Charles O. Golson Acumera 1
#12140 Ramtilak Vemu Intel 1
#12140 Mark Allen Wieland IBM 1
#12140 Carl L. Steiger, Jr. Innography 1
#12140 Sharon M. Gordon IBM 1
#12140 Christopher L. Hysinger Sandia 1
#12140 Sean Tolliver 1
#12140 Henley Green Sims 1
#12140 Cheryl Malatras IBM 1
#12140 Tiffany Durham IBM 1
#12140 Florencio Canizales, Jr. Unknown 1
#12140 Ichiro Matsumura University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Meena Sundararajan IBM 1
#12140 Daniel Kenneth Lunecki Silicon Labs Cp 1
#12140 Vincent Cheekiat Lim AMD 1
#12140 Olga Buchonina IBM 1
#12140 Trac Minh Vu IBM 1
#12140 Michael Gregory Tarin AMD 1
#12140 W. Franklin Dunn, Jr. Plantronics 1
#12140 Scott Vi Trieu Tran IBM 1
#12140 Glenn Eubank AMD 1
#12140 Rob E. Hanes, Jr. Halliburton Energy Services 1
#12140 Chung-Kal Chow Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 Gregory J. Stiehl 1
#12140 Ravina Chopra Amazon 1
#12140 Gannavaram Diwakar Vishakhadatta St-Ericsson Sa 1
#12140 James A. Bednar National Instruments 1

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