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 3M, Amazon, Unknown. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 17,201–17,250 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 John ARTHUR 1
#12140 Nicholas G. Rivard 3M 1
#12140 Taylor Phebus Amazon 1
#12140 Kyle Falkenhagen 1
#12140 Paul J. Capano 1
#12140 Royce L. Cutler Unknown 1
#12140 Muhammad-Yusuf J. Bora IBM 1
#12140 Keris Allrich WARD 1
#12140 Isadore S. Ferson Thomson Components-Moster 1
#12140 John Catalano 1
#12140 Larry E. Craddock 1
#12140 Kenneth L. Dershowitz Motorola 1
#12140 John E. Salick Motorola 1
#12140 Srikanth M. Kannapan 1
#12140 Astrid P. Jeffries IBM 1
#12140 Gary T. Anderson Motorola 1
#12140 Poul C. Frederiksen Dell Products 1
#12140 Suzanne K. Baird IBM 1
#12140 Richard S. Belleveau High End Systems 1
#12140 Josh Gause 1
#12140 Ba Khai Nguyen Toyota 1
#12140 Stephen M. Hash Schering-Plough Animal Health 1
#12140 Daniel R. Benkman Thermo Finnigan 1
#12140 Enrico A. Rodrigo 1
#12140 Diane B. Copenhaver IBM 1
#12140 Tyler Steinke 1
#12140 Peter Geoffrey Burton 3M 1
#12140 Ken T. Huang Motorola 1
#12140 Morris Taylor 1
#12140 Marguerite E. Hunt University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Chij-Mehn Chang IBM 1
#12140 Wael R. Ei-Essawy IBM 1
#12140 H. Scott Morgan Motorola 1
#12140 Louis Michael Hornung IBM 1
#12140 Nick Chagin 1
#12140 Richard L. Prilliman Motorola 1
#12140 Donna A. Barger Motorola 1
#12140 Greg K. Fleming University Of Texas System 1
#12140 David S. Motersole Motorola 1
#12140 Teresa L. Widener Motorola 1
#12140 Paul E. Harvey Motorola 1
#12140 Ashok H. Someshway Motorola 1
#12140 Micah Ledbetter 1
#12140 James B. Wilhelm, Jr. Motorola 1
#12140 Sung Yul Shin University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Robert W. Wendling Texas Instruments 1
#12140 Roger N. Botello 1
#12140 Vincent Giannoti, Jr. IBM 1
#12140 Jay R. Kinnard Oracle 1
#12140 Michael Passaloukos IBM 1

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