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 Cirrus Logic, Kansas State University, Thermo Fisher. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,751–15,800 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Meena Matai Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 Terry Caldwell 1
#12140 Maria C. G. Juenger Kansas State University 1
#12140 Angie Cheng Thermo Fisher 1
#12140 Lucy Byrd Hope 1
#12140 Konstantin A. Mardanov 1
#12140 Abdulkarim Coban Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 Zengjian Jeffrey Chen University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Greg Clark University Of Texas System 1
#12140 James V. Read Nanometrics Incorporated 1
#12140 Nathan Hillyer The Boeing 1
#12140 Lukman Sanusi The Boeing 1
#12140 Holly McKee 1
#12140 Harsh Thakker Qualcomm 1
#12140 Sang Hoon Lee Qualcomm 1
#12140 Zhibao Hu IBM 1
#12140 Douglas Farrell National Instruments 1
#12140 Robert Kannenberg Computer Sciences 1
#12140 Dennis Riddlemoser IBM 1
#12140 Behrouz Rasoulian IBM 1
#12140 Yeeland Chen Optimizely 1
#12140 Doug Spelce IBM 1
#12140 Edward L. MICKLER Texas Instruments 1
#12140 Stefan Wurn Infineon Technologies Ag 1
#12140 Pedram Amini Avast Software S.R.O. 1
#12140 Tami A. Holk-Johnson Eastman Kodak 1
#12140 Roger Charles Roeglin 1
#12140 Caleb Cyrill Osteomed 1
#12140 Brendan Nealon Enverus 1
#12140 Tyler Krolczyk Enverus 1
#12140 Peter J. Shelus, III Disney 1
#12140 Jeffrey N. Grills Disney 1
#12140 Jeffery A. Eastman 1
#12140 Christian Robert White 1
#12140 Matt Baer Disney 1
#12140 Elizabeth J. Shirley 1
#12140 David Mathew Landry Audiotoniq 1
#12140 Donald Coplin Audiotoniq 1
#12140 Dimitriy Blok IBM 1
#12140 Anthony Cassandra University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Wu Leon IBM 1
#12140 Joshua Brian Lindauer Cisco 1
#12140 Andrew J. Hinde National Instruments 1
#12140 Jeffrey Allen Blackburn Input/Output 1
#12140 Pradip K. Brandyopadhyay 3M 1
#12140 Cindy Hielscher Accenture Global Services Limited 1
#12140 Nizamudeen Ishmael IBM 1
#12140 Travis Vigil Dell Products 1
#12140 Patricia L. Yingst Bmc Software 1
#12140 Cheryl Elizabeth Martin 1

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