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 University Of Texas System, IBM, AT&T. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,701–14,750 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 John A. Herbst University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Phillip Mooneyham 1
#12140 Vasileios Lelos University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Diana L. White 1
#12140 Mark Waage 1
#12140 Tommy McGuire IBM 1
#12140 John A. Sicich AT&T 1
#12140 Amol Mandlekar 1
#12140 Timothy A. Stelzer National Instruments 1
#12140 Murthy R. Mellachurvu Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 Stephen T. McAlonan 1
#12140 Rebecca M. Calhoun University of California 1
#12140 Daurence Hurley Research Development Foundation 1
#12140 Sldlgata V. Sreenivasan University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Elizabeth Ann Moorehead 1
#12140 Mac Word 1
#12140 Susan Allison Chopra Solarwinds Worldwide 1
#12140 Kristen Taylor Invitrogen 1
#12140 Nevins Bartolemeo Sevco Security 1
#12140 Austin Lin Gibbons Visa 1
#12140 Sara Marmolejo 1
#12140 Daniel K. VanOstrand Eastman Kodak 1
#12140 Jinghong Qi Early Warning Services 1
#12140 Paul B. Mann AMD 1
#12140 Matt Craighead Intel 1
#12140 Adam Champion 1
#12140 Rakesh Thoutem IBM 1
#12140 Joseph Arcuri Anthony IBM 1
#12140 Drew M. Knobloch Siemens Industry 1
#12140 William C. May Applied Science Fiction 1
#12140 Sindhu Rajaram Disney 1
#12140 Satya Vadlamani Disney 1
#12140 Tina Shui Wan Chan IBM 1
#12140 Eunice Jia Min Yong 1
#12140 Satwinder Kahlon IBM 1
#12140 Chung-Pei Hu 1
#12140 Trevor Highland Cisco 1
#12140 Maha Emad IBM 1
#12140 David Michael Cantrell AMD 1
#12140 Murad Hudda Infineon Technologies Ag 1
#12140 Robert J. Duperier Samsung 1
#12140 Srinivas Bommareddy HP 1
#12140 Lynette K. Ballast AMD 1
#12140 Risser C. Estes 1
#12140 Mustasim Rumi Spinesmith Partners 1
#12140 Jared W. Jenson National Instruments 1
#12140 Qinghogn He Dell Products 1
#12140 Chandrajit Bajaj AT&T 1
#12140 Julie S. Fergerson 1
#12140 Leandro Lopes Dell Products 1

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