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

Showing 16,351–16,400 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Luke Browning IBM 1
#12140 James Richard Wadley Dell Products 1
#12140 Jeffrey R. Rowe Dell Products 1
#12140 RoseAnne Swart IBM 1
#12140 Kofi Nkisah Dadzie Dell Products 1
#12140 Margaret E. Gretta IBM 1
#12140 Joshua Phillips IBM 1
#12140 Jacqueline Drane IBM 1
#12140 Blake Printy Asuragen 1
#12140 DILLARD GILMORE Siemens Information And Communication Networks 1
#12140 Gary Jaffe 1
#12140 Krishna Kumar Rangineni PayPal 1
#12140 Giuseppe D'Amore PayPal 1
#12140 Rajesh Ayyalasomayajula General Motors 1
#12140 Mike Cain Salesforce 1
#12140 Aaron Scheinberg 1
#12140 Elyes Balti Qualcomm 1
#12140 Venugopalsamy Govindarajan PayPal 1
#12140 Andrew Lintereur Siemens Industry 1
#12140 Spencer A. Petersen AMD 1
#12140 Mathew S. Berzins Cypress Semiconductor 1
#12140 Matthew Planchard 1
#12140 Brett Gerhardt AMD 1
#12140 Mark Huggans 1
#12140 Sean C. Davis 3M 1
#12140 Youngman Um Psemi 1
#12140 Bill Diehl Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 Gary J. Kovar 1
#12140 David K. Breakfield Bae Systems Integrated Defense Solutions 1
#12140 Jeffrey Wijono IBM 1
#12140 Unes Pourmanafzadeh 1
#12140 Cynthia Armstrong IBM 1
#12140 Kuval Pedarla 1
#12140 Steven M. Czapski Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 Peter Jeffe Veritas Operating 1
#12140 Rajesh Peddu IBM 1
#12140 Sachin G. Thakkar University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Zuzana K. Dobes Sbc Technology Resources 1
#12140 Helen Hall IBM 1
#12140 Clay Alan Weatherford 1
#12140 Chris Mayer National Instruments 1
#12140 Manjula Rajendran Research Development Foundation 1
#12140 James Bernard Keenan, III IBM 1
#12140 Madhu Ramavajala Noxtech 1
#12140 Gary R. Schmidt 1
#12140 Carl R. Petersen Dell Products 1
#12140 Dalip Kumar Research Development Foundation 1
#12140 John C. Nunn Dell Usa 1
#12140 Sijian Chen National Semiconductor 1
#12140 G. Rene Zamora 1

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