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 IBM, Cisco, Freeescale Semiconductor. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,851–14,900 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Chelsea McCullough 1
#12140 Aaron Michael Yan IBM 1
#12140 Berhnard L. Schuler 1
#12140 Madhusudhan Karnam Rao Cisco 1
#12140 Madhu Babu Kodali Cisco 1
#12140 Kevin Michael Brogan 1
#12140 Christian P. Joffrain Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Debasmita Roychowdhury IBM 1
#12140 Sridhar Adapalli IBM 1
#12140 John Panzariu IBM 1
#12140 Ming Hsiang Hong Northwestern University 1
#12140 Ahsan Habib Chowdury Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 Billy Lee Grier IBM 1
#12140 Chris Kuryak 1
#12140 Dina Fitzpatrick 1
#12140 Wardell Brown Everi Games 1
#12140 Nicolas Gonzales 1
#12140 John B. Youngblood Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 Aaron Darling 1
#12140 Kiruba Sankaran Subramani Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 David M. Grochowski Nxp Usa 1
#12140 Manjunatha Jagalur Opera Solutions Usa 1
#12140 John G. Arthur Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Tevin Di Shon Shedd 1
#12140 Abhishek Raja 1
#12140 Xuehao Mou University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Jon F. Richter IBM 1
#12140 Stefan Charles Creaser NVIDIA 1
#12140 Hunter T. Stewart 1
#12140 Inti Sodemann University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Uma Mandava IBM 1
#12140 Michael M. Milliman 1
#12140 Vaijayanthiamala K. Anand IBM 1
#12140 Wuxi Li AMD 1
#12140 Avinash N. Suvvari IBM 1
#12140 Mike Strosaker IBM 1
#12140 Alex Hakkola Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 Shahnawaz A. Khan Express Scripts Strategic Development 1
#12140 Brad Allan Lambert Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 Esmeralda Traube Dell Products 1
#12140 Dionicio Garcia, III Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Tom L. Newell Dell Products 1
#12140 Hsian-Fen Tsao IBM 1
#12140 Giulia Agnello Aerase 1
#12140 Kiran Koratikere Srinivasa Samsung 1
#12140 Steve Kutz Dell Products 1
#12140 Asif Arfi Spansion Llc. 1
#12140 Antonino Cummings JPMorgan Chase 1
#12140 Robert Feather Lattice Semiconductor 1
#12140 Rick Anundson Spansion Llc. 1

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