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 Intel, Demand Media, Samsung. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,251–15,300 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Surekha Peri Intel 1
#12140 Allison Kelly 1
#12140 David Edward Panos Demand Media 1
#12140 Valeria Maria Gomez De La Torre Demand Media 1
#12140 Ravikanth Reddy Samsung 1
#12140 Eric Arthur Newman Demand Media 1
#12140 Matthew Richard Perry Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 Orlando O.Neill 1
#12140 M. Alper Sen Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Prachi Kale Agere Systems 1
#12140 Jason S. Cole Thermo Finnigan 1
#12140 Resham Rajendra Kulkarni IBM 1
#12140 Jon C. Baker Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Adrian Colli-Menchi Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 Jerritt K. Elliott 1
#12140 Sarah Sabra Pettengill IBM 1
#12140 Abhishek Raja 1
#12140 Sharmila Shridhar NVIDIA 1
#12140 Abhishek Raja 1
#12140 Peichun Peter Lui IBM 1
#12140 Kishore Ganti Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 Shane W. Whisenant 1
#12140 Dmitriy Oveharenko Thermo Fisher 1
#12140 Ilango Jeyasubramanian AMD 1
#12140 Prisad Ammisetti Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 Travis X. Zhao Dell Products 1
#12140 Angela Qian Chao Dell Products 1
#12140 Chen Weizhong Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Clay Daigle Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 Dallas Gremillion 1
#12140 Preston Fick Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 Matthew L. Thayer Globalfoundries 1
#12140 Pradeep N. Modur Ascension Texas 1
#12140 Abhishek Raja 1
#12140 Irving Olmedo IBM 1
#12140 Lisa Beall 1
#12140 Utsav Lokinindi IBM 1
#12140 Juan P. Villamizar IBM 1
#12140 Scott Cheloha IBM 1
#12140 Cagla Cakir NVIDIA 1
#12140 Paul Dent AT&T 1
#12140 Colin J. Broadbelt 1
#12140 Brian Thomas Gorenc Trend Micro Incorporated 1
#12140 Marcel M. Soens AT&T 1
#12140 Matthew A. Ruston Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Sudong Cho Dell Products 1
#12140 Nick Durr Nellcor Puritan Bennett 1
#12140 Heidi J. Peltier Asuragen 1
#12140 Michael F. Kim Trilogy Development Group 1
#12140 Nafisa Muzaffar Dell Products 1

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