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 Sigmatel, Sony, NVIDIA. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,201–15,250 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Jamie Joseph Happ Sigmatel 1
#12140 Jeff W. Haskell Sony 1
#12140 Richard S. Belhveau 1
#12140 Geoffrey Wyman Blake NVIDIA 1
#12140 Jennifer Saiman Lo IBM 1
#12140 Rose Anne Swart IBM 1
#12140 Francis A. Ferreiro Xerox 1
#12140 Andrea Denise Franklin IBM 1
#12140 Lina M. Rueda-Velandia 1
#12140 Christopher Tyson Self 1
#12140 Satheesh Ramachandran 1
#12140 Patracia L. Whiteside Tandem Computers Incorporated 1
#12140 Derek Alexander Pisner Unknown 1
#12140 Jeffrey S. Schaver Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Harrell Dean Williams, Sr. 1
#12140 Tyler Eschenroeder Wayport 1
#12140 Filippo Liverini GE 1
#12140 Jeffrey Michael Waite University of California 1
#12140 Katherine Kristin Rust AMD 1
#12140 Vijay Divar Neuric Technologies 1
#12140 Jeffrey Guo Dell Products 1
#12140 Michael E. Kerwick 1
#12140 Ralph Bestavros Dell Products 1
#12140 Robert S. Gehbauer National Instruments 1
#12140 Marc A. Page National Instruments 1
#12140 Gerald A. Beauchesne 3M 1
#12140 John E. Angello Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Stephen W. Zagorski 1
#12140 Kaivalya M. Dixit IBM 1
#12140 Aaron C. Lyman 1
#12140 Satyavathi Akella Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Ralph J. Sokel Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Linas Bruno Jarasius 1
#12140 Nathan Benjamin Buch Dell Products 1
#12140 Bret Allan Raymis 1
#12140 Paula Fracasso 1
#12140 Christopher Sander AMD 1
#12140 Susan McCartt Dell Products 1
#12140 Sindhu Devale Texas State University—San Marcos 1
#12140 Ronald K. Criddle IBM 1
#12140 Francisco Barrera Everi Games 1
#12140 Jose L. Rodriquez IBM 1
#12140 Robert D. Sartin 1
#12140 Autumn GOOD IBM 1
#12140 Phillip Lopresti Everspin Technologies 1
#12140 Christopher James Deaton 1
#12140 Douglas Bruce Lenat 1
#12140 Jesse Michael Recinos Razer (Asia-Pacific) Pte. 1
#12140 Allam Steitieh Dell Products 1
#12140 James Ohlen Electronic Arts 1

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