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 Breakingpoint Systems, Ansys, Dell Products. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,801–15,850 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Ryan Michael McKay 1
#12140 Eric David Goff Breakingpoint Systems 1
#12140 Madhu Keshavamurthy Ansys 1
#12140 Manasi Tamhankar Dell Products 1
#12140 James N. Murdock Texas Instruments 1
#12140 George Chapman IBM 1
#12140 Scott Lorenz Computer Sciences 1
#12140 Lisa M. Theis Electric Data Systems 1
#12140 Brian Doege 1
#12140 Arun M. Seehra Microsoft 1
#12140 Samuel Jacob Vercauteren Amazon 1
#12140 Rohan Kadam Amazon 1
#12140 William L. Boles Dell Products 1
#12140 Andrew Geer Aai 1
#12140 Julianne M. Trenary Lutron Technology Company 1
#12140 Dennis G. Delahoussaye HP 1
#12140 Michael E. Flannagan Cisco 1
#12140 Robert B. Rickart AMD 1
#12140 Mioses Cases IBM 1
#12140 Heidi S. Maeder Dell Products 1
#12140 Edmond R. Bures Apple 1
#12140 J. Vernon Cole Motorola 1
#12140 Randall J. Harbison 1
#12140 Joel Shively Multimedia Games 1
#12140 Dhamodharan Lakshminarayanan Visa 1
#12140 Sergio A. Pena 1
#12140 Christopher Farrow Columbia University 1
#12140 J. Frantz Folmer-Andersen University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Marcin Nowicki Intel 1
#12140 Rodolfo Rosas Vertiv 1
#12140 Swati Goel Meta 1
#12140 Ken Kalinoski Tandberg Telecom As 1
#12140 Mathias Sven Lucien Alain BROSSARD NVIDIA 1
#12140 Frank P. Feuerbacher IBM 1
#12140 Taylor Berry Stryker 1
#12140 Lance E. Ellisor Libredigital 1
#12140 Austin Cole University Of Texas System 1
#12140 David Stephen Kendall 1
#12140 Brett A. Funderberg IBM 1
#12140 Benton Thomas Porter Bmc Software 1
#12140 Sameul Kim 1
#12140 George A. Gonzalez AMD 1
#12140 Kiran Sreekantham National Instruments 1
#12140 Daniel A. Ivanciw AMD 1
#12140 Luveen Rupchand Wadhwani Bazaarvoice 1
#12140 Reed Lackland McConnell 1
#12140 Cynthia J. Hain 1
#12140 Dane Robert Ellenbogen 1
#12140 Mehernosh Adi Mody Unknown 1
#12140 Jose Rios Trevino 1

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