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 Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola, University Of Texas System. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 16,901–16,950 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Margaret L. Roach 1
#12140 Parthasarathi Ainampudi Mitsubishi Electric 1
#12140 Amos D. Wimberley 1
#12140 Robert D. Whitley Motorola 1
#12140 Floyd Stephens 1
#12140 Athanassios Thomas Papagiannakis University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Francisco Javier Otero Applied Cardiovascular Solutions 1
#12140 Walter L. Moore 1
#12140 Keither A. Vanderlee Magnecomp 1
#12140 Terry L. Mothersole IBM 1
#12140 Richard J. Manley 1
#12140 Byron T. Arnason 1
#12140 Mark Clinton Waggoner 1
#12140 Richard H. Rhyne, Jr. 1
#12140 Henry H. Kight Texas Instruments 1
#12140 Jason T. Porter Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 James W. Kelfer 1
#12140 Linda C. Bonner 1
#12140 Vitthalbhai D. Mistry 1
#12140 Gary C. Lewis Motorola 1
#12140 Fran A. Green 1
#12140 Edward C. Yit Nieh Chevron 1
#12140 Mohamadreza Khalili University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Noel M. McCroskey Motorola 1
#12140 Lawrence Glen Griffis 1
#12140 Hae Woon Nam Intel 1
#12140 David Mahler 1
#12140 Dennis G. Baker Gulf Eastern Manufacturing 1
#12140 Vernon W. Cannon 1
#12140 Ronald J. Seaman IBM 1
#12140 Rocco C. Piazza, Jr. 1
#12140 James T. Padden IBM 1
#12140 Phillip S. Smith Motorola 1
#12140 Robert W. Aaron Motorola 1
#12140 Abraham Torres IBM 1
#12140 M. W. Widener 1
#12140 Gopal Vishwakarma University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Rich Collins Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Theodore A. Aanstoos Parker Kinetic Designs 1
#12140 Carol G. Pyron Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Rachel Kuhr Conn 1
#12140 Larry A. Small Data General 1
#12140 Aaron E. Prince, Jr. Parker Kinetic Designs 1
#12140 Linda K. Buckley IBM 1
#12140 Sam R. Shaw Carroll Touch 1
#12140 Armando Arismendi IBM 1
#12140 Daniel L. Hyazk Stauffer Chemical 1
#12140 Zach Urbanus Ballogy 1
#12140 Jennifer Prishtina 1
#12140 Joseph J. Liccese Motorola 1

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