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 Dell Products, Rockwell Automation, Cirrus Logic. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,301–15,350 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 WILLIAM ADAM BLACK Dell Products 1
#12140 Odion Ayotunde Edeki 1
#12140 Bijan Sayyarrodsar Rockwell Automation 1
#12140 Ed Ho Sung Chun Dell Products 1
#12140 Waqas Akram Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 Omon Ayodele Edeki 1
#12140 William Roy Natale 1
#12140 Zaid G. Sofia Dell Products 1
#12140 George M. Kaupas AMD 1
#12140 Lisa A. Fredin Northwestern University 1
#12140 Paula Kwit Microsoft 1
#12140 Brian Rak Broadcom 1
#12140 Peter Kaltenbach Doskocil Manufacturing Company 1
#12140 Thomas E. Marek Unknown 1
#12140 Greg Freeman Applied Materials 1
#12140 Stuart W. Juengst Rubicon Labs 1
#12140 Brian A. Lasseter IBM 1
#12140 Charles T. Schad Rubicon Labs 1
#12140 Kathryn Strauss Radica China 1
#12140 Dorian Lowell Thomas Manning Realpage 1
#12140 Shiva Persaud-Deolall IBM 1
#12140 Sidhar R. Muppidi IBM 1
#12140 Shardul Deo IBM 1
#12140 Fong-Meng L. L. Chan IBM 1
#12140 Michael H. Connor IBM 1
#12140 Aaron Dixon IBM 1
#12140 Adam Lawrence Colson PayPal 1
#12140 Jesse Phou Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Mary M. Snow IBM 1
#12140 Danny Daniel Whittington Dell Products 1
#12140 Jingfang Hao Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Raymond Silcox Dell Products 1
#12140 George P. Hockstra Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Dwight Spence IBM 1
#12140 Sandra Carter IBM 1
#12140 Tron Isaksen 1
#12140 Robin Dommisse 1
#12140 Larry Elmer Evans 1
#12140 Travis Tyler Brady 1
#12140 Ying Ying Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 Nathan J. Shashoua Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 Paul Niezgoda Qwest Communications International 1
#12140 Ix 1
#12140 Gabriel LeBlanc University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Peter Phan IBM 1
#12140 Brian C. Chagoly IBM 1
#12140 Alexander T. Fleming Bmc Software 1
#12140 Giridhar Narayanaswami AMD 1
#12140 Chris Thoman Mattersight 1
#12140 Jeff O'Neal Under Armour 1

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