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

Showing 17,551–17,600 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Narendrakumar U. Salem National Instruments 1
#12140 Hassan F. Fakhreddine Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Hung Oui Le IBM 1
#12140 James Scogin 1
#12140 Yifu Han University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Jessica Kristin Rogers 1
#12140 Artur Posenato Garcia University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Zoya Heidari University Of Texas System 1
#12140 John Thomas Pullicino 1
#12140 Alvin A. Couturier 1
#12140 Dirk Powers 1
#12140 Kranthimitra Adusumilli University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Michael D. Rose Shaw Industries Group 1
#12140 Graham Patterson 1
#12140 Frank Allan Nutt Novell 1
#12140 Stephen Doug Ray AMD 1
#12140 Dylan Nathaniel Warnock Adobe 1
#12140 Lynn Christine Schneider Huddleston Virta IBM 1
#12140 Mikhail Kotov Adobe 1
#12140 James Cady Entorian Technologies 1
#12140 Steven Meosky S. C. Johnson & Son 1
#12140 Bobbi A. Brekke IBM 1
#12140 Karl F. Heubaum Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Christohpe A. Restat National Instruments 1
#12140 Ravinder Wadehra IBM 1
#12140 Nicholas Murdock Sevco Security 1
#12140 Craig Cason Sevco Security 1
#12140 Hisso M. Chang Roamware 1
#12140 Chieng-Hwa Lin Dell Products 1
#12140 Devvrit Microsoft 1
#12140 Shawn L. Young IBM 1
#12140 Zhiyan Huang Accretech Usa 1
#12140 Saila Parthasarathy Dell Products 1
#12140 Adrian Mateo Maceiras Cloudflare 1
#12140 Anil Kurugode Dell Products 1
#12140 Teresa M. Joyce 1
#12140 Sanjay Francis IBM 1
#12140 John T. McCann 1
#12140 James D. Hedspeth 1
#12140 Drew Sarkisian Bytemobile 1
#12140 Mysore M. Srinivas IBM 1
#12140 Kristen C. Smith Motorola 1
#12140 Patrick McGuiness Motorola 1
#12140 Renee Hale University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Ghadier R. Gholami IBM 1
#12140 Theresa Michelle Patterson 1
#12140 Larry J. Grieve Freeescale Semiconductor 1
#12140 Tomasz Piotr Wala Dell Products 1
#12140 David James Lyon Dell Products 1
#12140 Morgan Y. Tong IBM 1

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