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 Meta, IBM, Shell Oil Compny. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,551–15,600 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Bernard Briggs 1
#12140 Christian Alexander Martine Meta 1
#12140 Donald Norman Senziq IBM 1
#12140 Daniel Joseph Gentner, Jr. Shell Oil Compny 1
#12140 Thomas M. McDonnell Rockwell Automation 1
#12140 Scott H. Berens IBM 1
#12140 Ty Tyner IBM 1
#12140 Satya Gopi Manapragada Dell Products 1
#12140 Ben Gaddis 1
#12140 David Longenbaugh 1
#12140 Steven C. Ditto HP 1
#12140 Vishakha Sangani Visa 1
#12140 Diane M. Harvey Schlumberger Technology 1
#12140 James F. McHugh Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Angela Swindell IBM 1
#12140 Manan Sudhakarbhai Lakhani Visa 1
#12140 David W. Duffner 1
#12140 Jennifer Milch Newgistics 1
#12140 Eric Jason Erway Dell Products 1
#12140 Chetan Nagaraja Rao Electronic Arts 1
#12140 David William Engelman 1
#12140 Furqaan Malik Multimedia Games 1
#12140 Denise Raper Visa 1
#12140 Thomas L. Mays 1
#12140 Paul Damien 1
#12140 Meghana Malur University of California 1
#12140 Amanda C. Rivera-Begeman 1
#12140 Adam Thomas Lankford IBM 1
#12140 Eric Selvik Arthrocare 1
#12140 Joseph Lapka University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Adam J. Samia University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Gage Austin Brasher 1
#12140 Claude Moughani Motorola 1
#12140 William S Charlton University Of Texas System 1
#12140 MATTHEW CHU-CHUEONG Princeton University 1
#12140 Aaron Lindsey 1
#12140 Joe Spector AMD 1
#12140 Emmanuel Okereke Visa 1
#12140 Danielle Roxberry 1
#12140 Woytek Tworzydio Pakal Technologies 1
#12140 Geeta Bholanath Nadkarni 1
#12140 Dylan Fox Bioo Scientific 1
#12140 Aryan Pedawi Pathai 1
#12140 Sanjay S. Kanvinde Schlumberger Technology 1
#12140 Steven B. Brotzman 1
#12140 Ruthie M. Rahmoune 1
#12140 Jude Ogbuibe Visa 1
#12140 Orion Suydam HP 1
#12140 Vandana Mallempatl IBM 1
#12140 Akshay Prakash 1

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