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Austin, TX All Time

146,494 patents  ·  18,064 inventors  ·  152.3/1k pop.

Ranked #31 of 111,555 cities Top 1%

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

Showing 14,951–15,000 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Barry A. Boes, II Cypress Semiconductor 1
#12140 Philip Molter — 1
#12140 Denise Riedlinger National Instruments 1
#12140 Amol Mandelkar — 1
#12140 Leonard William Leslie IBM 1
#12140 MARK A. LIGAMERI Microsoft 1
#12140 Ross Garrett Osteoscreen 1
#12140 David Nehme Marriott International 1
#12140 Victor Selvaraj Luminex 1
#12140 James E. Vasck Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Lori Lee Mueller — 1
#12140 Changhan Ge AT&T 1
#12140 Paul G. Villarrubla IBM 1
#12140 Lawrence Garnold Richards IBM 1
#12140 Ahmed Khawaja Oracle 1
#12140 Russell Mims — 1
#12140 Dongchul Kang Dell Products 1
#12140 Jagdish D. Massand IBM 1
#12140 Medha Dinesh Date IBM 1
#12140 Rob Norris — 1
#12140 Chris Spurgeon — 1
#12140 Lawrence Hugh Maze — 1
#12140 Bryan Oden — 1
#12140 Cory Berendzen — 1
#12140 Smita Bodepudi IBM 1
#12140 Ravi K. Mandava Agere Systems 1
#12140 Ravl A. Shankar IBM 1
#12140 Cory P. Krug AMD 1
#12140 Cole Weston Puchi Pouch Pac Innovations 1
#12140 Lane Morris — 1
#12140 Jerrold Rubin IBM 1
#12140 Melinda Yuki McMillan IBM 1
#12140 Laura McQuary — 1
#12140 R. Malcom Brown, Jr. University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Frank P. Skowronski AMD 1
#12140 Maxim Mark Tomashevsky National Instruments 1
#12140 MyPhuong NguyenPhu Dell Products 1
#12140 Vaibhav Chhabra Trend Micro Incorporated 1
#12140 Rocky Lee Clanton — 1
#12140 William M. Allai National Instruments 1
#12140 Stéphane Lemay Troux Technologies 1
#12140 Jason S Morio Troux Technologies 1
#12140 Brent Gaskamp Dell Products 1
#12140 Catherine Grander Vance — 1
#12140 Kathryn Moncivais Spinesmith Partners 1
#12140 Chris Merriam — 1
#12140 Desmond Awungayi Dell Products 1
#12140 Chris Randy Larsen Davis Drilling Info 1
#12140 Mark Anthony Nadon IBM 1
#12140 Andre James Dumouchelle Dell Products 1

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