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, PayPal, Freeescale Semiconductor. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 16,551–16,600 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Fong-Meng L. L. Chan IBM 1
#12140 Michael H. Connor IBM 1
#12140 Aaron Dixon IBM 1
#12140 Adam Lawrence Colson PayPal 1
#12140 Jesse Phou Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Mary M. Snow IBM 1
#12140 Danny Daniel Whittington Dell Products 1
#12140 Jingfang Hao Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Raymond Silcox Dell Products 1
#12140 George P. Hockstra Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Dwight Spence IBM 1
#12140 Sandra Carter IBM 1
#12140 Tron Isaksen 1
#12140 Robin Dommisse 1
#12140 Larry Elmer Evans 1
#12140 Travis Tyler Brady 1
#12140 Ying Ying Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 Nathan J. Shashoua Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 Paul Niezgoda Qwest Communications International 1
#12140 Ix 1
#12140 Gabriel LeBlanc University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Peter Phan IBM 1
#12140 Brian C. Chagoly IBM 1
#12140 Alexander T. Fleming Bmc Software 1
#12140 Giridhar Narayanaswami AMD 1
#12140 Chris Thoman Mattersight 1
#12140 Jeff O'Neal Under Armour 1
#12140 M. Shane Garonzik 1
#12140 Gustavo Blum Dell Products 1
#12140 David Francis Perdue 1
#12140 Kevin A. Mefford AMD 1
#12140 Matthew John Allison 1
#12140 Abhishek Baradia NVIDIA 1
#12140 James E. Pike Dell Products 1
#12140 Sébastien Gravallon Thales Dis Usa 1
#12140 Ashvin Radiya IBM 1
#12140 Jonathan Turfboer Opower 1
#12140 Rodrigo Zerlotti 1
#12140 Gabrielle Traugott 1
#12140 Thomas Landrum Pervasive Software 1
#12140 Andrew W. Steets Wayport 1
#12140 Patrick W. Lea Wayport 1
#12140 Fahim M. Akhtar Dell Products 1
#12140 Austin Jess Burch 1
#12140 David Dimston 1
#12140 Frances Mossman Flex 1
#12140 Narayan Devireddy Dell Usa 1
#12140 Willam Kress Bodin IBM 1
#12140 Curtiss C. Grove Kis 1
#12140 Stephen Strausser Ebara 1

Part of Texas