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 Visa, Spansion Llc., Samsung. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,901–14,950 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Shizhe Ma Visa 1
#12140 Neil R. Flores 1
#12140 Xiaojian Chu Spansion Llc. 1
#12140 Reshma C. Jumani Samsung 1
#12140 Abhijit Raghunathan Spansion Llc. 1
#12140 Robert Hardister 1
#12140 Lakshminarayan Choudur Micro Focus 1
#12140 Nizar Yaghi GE 1
#12140 Joe Wiseman Dell Products 1
#12140 Kerry Karl Nick NVIDIA 1
#12140 Robert B. Boyet Apple 1
#12140 Larry Liangzhong Wang Dell Products 1
#12140 Theresa E. Beloin Apple 1
#12140 Roger C. Meador Apple 1
#12140 Melissa S. Snyder Dell Products 1
#12140 Faruk Guvenilir Intel 1
#12140 Marc Andre Hesse Eth Zurich 1
#12140 Willis John Sigmatel 1
#12140 Tom Zudock Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 Jill Visit 1
#12140 Timothy M. Skergen IBM 1
#12140 Aaron C. Cooke National Oilwell Varco 1
#12140 Ix 1
#12140 Charles Paul Hofer IBM 1
#12140 Madhav Peri IBM 1
#12140 Matthew Grossman HP 1
#12140 Diwas Adhikari Globalfoundries 1
#12140 Jackseario Antonio Dionisio Do Rosario University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Yonchan Ban Synopsys 1
#12140 C. Randall Thomas Varco I/P 1
#12140 Jesse Dale Trevino High End Systems 1
#12140 Greg J. Baluch Dell Products 1
#12140 Jonathan Lance Rea Dell Products 1
#12140 Michele S. Gary Gb Gmbh 1
#12140 Masoud Farshbaf Zinati Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 S. Christopher Boesch Dell Products 1
#12140 David Wade Eickbusch onsemi 1
#12140 David Totedo Applied Materials 1
#12140 Zaki Chasmawala National Instruments 1
#12140 Sarah A. Borders Gb Gmbh 1
#12140 Sarah Larocca Thermo Fisher 1
#12140 Kyle Ann Hintner 1
#12140 Jordan P. Hargrave Dell Products 1
#12140 Julie Westervelt 1
#12140 Hooi-Min Lim AMD 1
#12140 Laura Avery Fisher-Rosemount Systems 1
#12140 Hisham Besheer Dell Products 1
#12140 Alexander Jacob Katz IBM 1
#12140 Paul F. Mazzapica 1
#12140 Gregory P. Swanson Baylor College Of Medicine 1

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