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

Showing 17,351–17,400 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Sharon S. Hobbs IBM 1
#12140 Klaus P. Laesecke University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Bich-Yen Nguygen Motorola 1
#12140 Daniel Y. Twumasi 1
#12140 Christal Cureington-Sims Core 1
#12140 Richard E. Eveland 1
#12140 Clarence W. Shaw 1
#12140 Robert Leon Gorsegner Cirrus Logic 1
#12140 Judith G. Haber IBM 1
#12140 William V. Burns Tideland Signal 1
#12140 Erica Quintana Computer Sciences 1
#12140 Glenn E. Hunt Data General 1
#12140 Chester H. Crider IBM 1
#12140 Travis Preston Edwards Unknown 1
#12140 Timothy G. Grivas High End Systems 1
#12140 John E. Hollingsworth US Air Force 1
#12140 Denise F. Loose IBM 1
#12140 Jeffrey T. Brandt AT&T 1
#12140 Bao-Binh Truong IBM 1
#12140 Brett McMillian Crossfield Technology 1
#12140 Jeffrey Charles Michalski 1
#12140 Kenneth Edmund Goach, Jr. IBM 1
#12140 Caroline S. Devillez 1
#12140 Shinta Dewi Arifin Tjio IBM 1
#12140 Richard P. VanMeurs Texas Instruments 1
#12140 Anthony K. Patterson Dell Usa 1
#12140 Thadeus Nathaniel Burgess 1
#12140 Charles Riese Radian Group 1
#12140 Sekhar A. Rao Voyage Medical 1
#12140 Alex S. Y. Koh Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Chia-Lin Hwang Unknown 1
#12140 Mark A. Chonko Motorola 1
#12140 Mounir Emile Bsaibes IBM 1
#12140 Mary K. Trumble IBM 1
#12140 Donald W. DeMello GE 1
#12140 David F. Obermann IBM 1
#12140 Wade B. Buckner Dsc Communications 1
#12140 Oscar Adrian Sanchez Leal Dell Usa 1
#12140 Carole A. Jannak IBM 1
#12140 Janardhan K. Pavuluri University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Larry S. Gibbs 1
#12140 Kirk A. Hubbell 1
#12140 Pablo Reble Intel 1
#12140 Naidu G. Golla AMD 1
#12140 Reginald Washington 1
#12140 Joseph Kornowski Lexisnexis, A Division Of Reed Elsevier 1
#12140 Kyle Lloyd American Airlines 1
#12140 Anna Janceka Administrators Of The Tulane Educational Fund 1
#12140 John Barry Hoechst Celanese 1
#12140 Salil Phadnis Intel 1

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