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

Showing 17,301–17,350 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Paul A. Spangler National Instruments 1
#12140 Brian Riddick 1
#12140 David Kypuros IBM 1
#12140 Byoung Min Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Randolph Schueller Extreme Devices 1
#12140 Vijaya Jas IBM 1
#12140 Greg Hudgins Dell Usa 1
#12140 Linyun He Visa 1
#12140 Ross Bannatyne Motorola 1
#12140 Shane M. Mahon Qualcomm 1
#12140 Ioannis Samaragdakis Microsoft 1
#12140 Lyle Murphey 1
#12140 Gitanjali Venkatrao 1
#12140 Tina C. Blanchard 1
#12140 Anand Venkatrao 1
#12140 Thomas Lotts Terra Consulting Gmbh 1
#12140 Diego Roel-Chapa 1
#12140 Gregory Scott Kirkland Rackspace Us 1
#12140 Chen Yeeland 1
#12140 Azim Fatehi HP 1
#12140 Adolfo Cota-Foncerrada 1
#12140 Jérôme DENIS Gemalto Sa 1
#12140 Shelley Raina Cisco 1
#12140 David S. McStay AMD 1
#12140 Lal Payyappilly Paul AT&T 1
#12140 Osborne Kirby Walls, III 1
#12140 Martin Weinkove 1
#12140 Motoki Tokumasu Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 1
#12140 Anthony J. Young-Garder IBM 1
#12140 Aditya K. Rathi National Instruments 1
#12140 Richard Eades 1
#12140 Jeffrey Strahan University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Lindsey Ip 1
#12140 Joseph B. Diana Motorola 1
#12140 Priyamvada Jadaun The Texas A&M University 1
#12140 Trevor Schick Slate Technologies 1
#12140 J. Carlos Reyes, Jr. AMD 1
#12140 Alisha Moore IBM 1
#12140 Doug English 1
#12140 Brady C. Duggan National Instruments 1
#12140 Cristy Marie Howard 1
#12140 Alvie Faulkenbery 1
#12140 Garrett Smith AMD 1
#12140 Daniel M. Justiss Texas State University 1
#12140 Laura SCARBOROUGH 1
#12140 Sandra Ann Bowers IBM 1
#12140 Ryan A. Nowakowski Qualcomm 1
#12140 Michael S. Schippers Xerox 1
#12140 Charles A. Kalapati National Instruments 1
#12140 Sudharshan Sankaran Vazhkudai Micron 1

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