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 HP, Vixs Systems, Blue Coat Systems. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 16,851–16,900 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Robert B. Mizell HP 1
#12140 Chris A. Aardema Vixs Systems 1
#12140 Roy Israel Shamir Blue Coat Systems 1
#12140 Leonore McMackin Inview Technology 1
#12140 David Hawkins 1
#12140 Joel Abdullah Applied Nanotech 1
#12140 Chris Stutsman 1
#12140 Ronald Gene Willard IBM 1
#12140 Shawn B. Wikle Bmc Software 1
#12140 Donald Gordon Shafer 1
#12140 Xianyao Wang Smsc Holdings Sarl 1
#12140 Mark David Turner IBM 1
#12140 Robert J. Etkins IBM 1
#12140 Abhishek Raja 1
#12140 Simon Anthony Hogg National Instruments 1
#12140 J. Wesley Reynolds, Jr. National Instruments 1
#12140 Jens Andersen Sony 1
#12140 Xinhua Wu IBM 1
#12140 Shamik Kacker Dell Products 1
#12140 Vit T. Tran IBM 1
#12140 Kim-Khanh V. Trans IBM 1
#12140 Andrew J Robles University Of Oklahoma 1
#12140 Timothy Howard White IBM 1
#12140 Jeremiah Seeley 1
#12140 Amir Pauker 1
#12140 Alex Artushin 1
#12140 Zaixi Shang Amazon 1
#12140 Dave J. Wehrlen Active Power 1
#12140 Carolyn A. Brown IBM 1
#12140 Dhev George Kollannur Emc Ip Holding Company 1
#12140 Elvis Collado Trend Micro Incorporated 1
#12140 Michelle Nokeo Twite 1
#12140 Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan Honda Motor Co. 1
#12140 Rosalynn J. Tuggle HP 1
#12140 Robert J. Urouhart IBM 1
#12140 Nathaniel Overholtzer Dell Products 1
#12140 Ryan Stinebaugh Glorious 1
#12140 Marcus Vinson Chime Financial 1
#12140 Matthew Gerard Jacunski PayPal 1
#12140 Zaher Kassas National Instruments 1
#12140 Henry M. Pogorzelski ExxonMobil 1
#12140 Taylore Jaques Apple 1
#12140 Katherine Brosh Merck 1
#12140 Joshua D. Moon University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Paul Morganstern Fluence Bioengineering 1
#12140 Jack E. Long Clearcube Technology 1
#12140 Jong Rak Shin 1
#12140 Arthur D. Stone 1
#12140 Henry M. Killmar, III Interactive Tko 1
#12140 Set Erik Jonas Klingspor Arvos Ljungstrom 1

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