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 Smsc Holdings Sarl, AMD, Plantronics. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,651–15,700 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Zhonghong Shen Smsc Holdings Sarl 1
#12140 Tihsiang Hsu Smsc Holdings Sarl 1
#12140 Srinivas Keshav AMD 1
#12140 Katherine K. Farady 1
#12140 Tom Wesselman Plantronics 1
#12140 Nicholas J. Tangborn 1
#12140 Philip Lindsay Powell 3M 1
#12140 Glen Lam AMD 1
#12140 Crispin Thomas Schamp Spansion Llc. 1
#12140 Srinidhi Padmanabhan Samsung 1
#12140 Richard Andrew Atherton 1
#12140 Christopher J. Linder HP 1
#12140 Robert D. Havrda Io-Mega Holding 1
#12140 Steven W Utt 1
#12140 Satya Ranganathan Amazon 1
#12140 Barnard Ku AT&T 1
#12140 Vernon Weiss Flextronics Ap 1
#12140 Stephan J. Robinson Intel 1
#12140 J. Whitley Applera 1
#12140 Bonnie Graham 1
#12140 Jennifer W. McKibben Tandberg Telecom As 1
#12140 James Lee Plamondon Rackspace Us 1
#12140 Pallavi Dasari Dell Products 1
#12140 Akhlesh Nigam Standard Microsystems 1
#12140 Mathew P Simister Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company 1
#12140 Victor R. Villarreal IBM 1
#12140 Jasmine Stone Meta 1
#12140 Rhesa M. Browning 3M 1
#12140 Abdulaziz ALDAYEL University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Michael Perng IBM 1
#12140 Katy Holland Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 Stephan Bless Ncc Nano 1
#12140 Adam D. Eldredge Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 Daniel Gallant Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 Hannah O'Mary University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Cindy Debold 1
#12140 Jonathan Twichell 1
#12140 Jerome Patrick OFFNER Pricewaterhousecoopers Llp 1
#12140 Brian J. Nalle Apple 1
#12140 Marisa F. Roberson IBM 1
#12140 Jason C. Perkey Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 You Wang Halliburton Energy Services 1
#12140 Ayesha Bhargava 1
#12140 Tim J. Zoerner Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Shian-Shian Iodice 1
#12140 Steven W. Thurber IBM 1
#12140 Kwanoh Kim University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Gregory A. McKaskle National Instruments 1
#12140 James M. Brisson NVIDIA 1
#12140 Sanjeev Suresh Silicon Laboratories 1

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