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 Security Compass Technologies, Texas Instruments, Motorola. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 17,501–17,550 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Alger W. Wolfe, Jr. Security Compass Technologies 1
#12140 Manoucher Felfeli 1
#12140 Carroll R. Hall Texas Instruments 1
#12140 James L. Tietjen Motorola 1
#12140 Earl V. Cardinal 1
#12140 John M. Larken Chevron 1
#12140 Tom Sze Oracle 1
#12140 Michael Petrowski, III Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 Michelle C. Denny National Instruments 1
#12140 James A. Holcombe University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Christopher Nelli Huntsman Petrochemical 1
#12140 Sina Rafati 1
#12140 Carlos A. Kissinger Motorola 1
#12140 Claude D. Miller IBM 1
#12140 Lal C. Sodd Motorola 1
#12140 Hariprasath Murugesan 1
#12140 Samuel R. Herrera 1
#12140 Yongloo Jeon Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Christina Marie Cowdrey USAA 1
#12140 Joshua Aron Tahmasebi Foreflight 1
#12140 Rachel Renee Bell Retailmenot 1
#12140 David Allen Collmann 1
#12140 Cosmo Mark Raines 1
#12140 Christie Powell 1
#12140 Mitch Gilkey Apollo Endosurgery Us 1
#12140 Nick Jameson 3D Patents 1
#12140 Lisette Hilsman 1
#12140 Austen M. Cook IBM 1
#12140 Jatin Vinay Pai Nxp Usa 1
#12140 Brian Matheny Ustudio 1
#12140 Emerson F. Lane, III Ustudio 1
#12140 Kenneth Michael Wallquist Silicon Laboratories 1
#12140 Alexander Graziani Mancevski 1
#12140 Aditi Shah Nxp Usa 1
#12140 Glynn R. Furr, Jr. IBM 1
#12140 Caio Araujo Teixeira Campos Cadence Design Systems 1
#12140 Wendell P. Ramsey IBM 1
#12140 Qasim Iqbal Sparkcognition 1
#12140 Elizabeth Citlalli Winkler Bano Anaconda 1
#12140 Michael Carl Sarahan Anaconda 1
#12140 Crystal Ann Soja Anaconda 1
#12140 Amelia Cosgrove Thomas 1
#12140 Joseph M. Boll University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Casen Hunger University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Mark Meserve University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Mitchell Crooks University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Abhishek Raja 1
#12140 Venkateshwar JUNNUTHULLA Qualcomm 1
#12140 Edward Mora University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Manoj Nagulapally Ansys 1

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