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 Apple, Dell Products, Mentor Graphics. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 15,901–15,950 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Thomas J. Best Apple 1
#12140 Robyn Reed McLaughlin Dell Products 1
#12140 Duo Ding Mentor Graphics 1
#12140 John Bister IBM 1
#12140 Chase Kettl IBM 1
#12140 Caitlin Gettinger IBM 1
#12140 Mudit KHANNA Ideal Power 1
#12140 Nicholas H. Anderson Great Stuff 1
#12140 Dan Sharplin Siemens Industry 1
#12140 Abraham Alvarez IBM 1
#12140 Gregory A. Hemstreet Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Noberto Silva 1
#12140 Yazdan Panah Ali Futurewei Technologies 1
#12140 Jamie M. Kropka Eastman Kodak 1
#12140 David C. Jedlicka National Instruments 1
#12140 Antony Sebastine NVIDIA 1
#12140 John Bombach 1
#12140 Jeffrey Schryver 1
#12140 Paul B. Grosso 1
#12140 Eddie K. Chan IBM 1
#12140 Bruce Ponton 1
#12140 Max RODNICK-SMITH University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Glen N. Sanders, Jr. 1
#12140 David E. Klipec National Instruments 1
#12140 Karima Ferrani-Kile 1
#12140 Paul Backowski 1
#12140 Arun Klijn Valence Technology 1
#12140 Timothy Allen Margheim Neuric Technologies 1
#12140 Reetabrata Mookherjee 1
#12140 Steve Bracamontez Dell Products 1
#12140 Andrea Falkin Dell Products 1
#12140 David Rohacek National Instruments 1
#12140 Elise Osborn Strickland 1
#12140 Philip Leung 1
#12140 QingZhang Lai IBM 1
#12140 Michael R. Kobe Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 David Kostusiak Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 Tavis M. Grigsby IBM 1
#12140 Tristan T. Gross Intel 1
#12140 Louis Statman 1
#12140 Ryan Jordan 1
#12140 Jacob Lubecki Teradata Us 1
#12140 Seyedeh Maryam Mortazavi Zanjani Apple 1
#12140 Vikas Shahdadpuri Vitesse Semiconductor 1
#12140 Justin Patrick McGarry Broadcom 1
#12140 Kavitha Gudapati IBM 1
#12140 Christopher T. Praisner 1
#12140 Brandon Howell Renesas Electronics America 1
#12140 Lori Lee Periman 1
#12140 Melissa LoBiondo 1

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