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

Showing 16,651–16,700 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 John Whalen 1
#12140 David B. Salgado IBM 1
#12140 Patricia F. Arnold Dell Products 1
#12140 W. Mark Carter AMD 1
#12140 Alan R. Dellinger Dell Products 1
#12140 David P. Imming Fisher-Rosemount Systems 1
#12140 Amanda Caswell IBM 1
#12140 Kemper Powell 1
#12140 Michael D. Broadway 1
#12140 Larry Stephen King Seagate Technology 1
#12140 Douglas Shaller 1
#12140 Timothy Patrick Meyers 1
#12140 Mohammad Reza Shakouri Amazon 1
#12140 John David Round Nxp Usa 1
#12140 Greg Mooty 1
#12140 Saju Mathew Alex Texas Instruments 1
#12140 Aaron D. Angert IBM 1
#12140 Richard Skirrow 1
#12140 Rajas Sanjay Deshpande Clearblade 1
#12140 Mitchell C. Sebring Dell Usa 1
#12140 Mike Leone Samsung 1
#12140 Jim Gernert Samsung 1
#12140 Zachary R. Sais IBM 1
#12140 Alex Amelia Kuehn 1
#12140 Forrest W. Breyfogle, III 1
#12140 Christopher N. Solis IBM 1
#12140 Arumugan Manthiram University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Harry D. Fair 1
#12140 Mark G. H. Ferguson 1
#12140 Elaine Carroll 1
#12140 Grace Elizabeth Duenas 1
#12140 James De Leon Apple 1
#12140 Sundar Rangarajan AMD 1
#12140 Cheryl Savan 1
#12140 Eric Michael Lothspeich Cadillac Jack 1
#12140 Harvey C. Pittel 1
#12140 Amandeep Saluja Amazon 1
#12140 Jessica Terrazas Spinesmith Partners 1
#12140 David Mervine Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 Dave Tiffin Halliburton Energy Services 1
#12140 Donald Allen Zielinski, Jr. Corning Research & Development 1
#12140 Hassan Dandachli 1
#12140 Subbalakshmi Iyer Bazaarvoice 1
#12140 Lori Baugh 1
#12140 Gayion Schulle 1
#12140 Michael K. Makuch Vignette 1
#12140 Karathik Kumar University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Marshall P. Devine Huntsman Petrochemical 1
#12140 Erwin Hendarto Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 Libertad Paloma Escobar Carrizales 1

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