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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Highlands, TX ranks #22,971 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 52 patents from 24 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Highlands, TX include Baker Hughes Holdings, ExxonMobil, Lufkin Industries. That works out to 6.0 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–24 of 24 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Glenn R. Zadrapa Baker Hughes Holdings 8
2 James R. Ayers ExxonMobil 5
3 Bradley N. Vermillion 4
3 Byron Anderson 4
#5 James J. Stipe 3
#5 Schumann Rafizadeh 3
#5 Roddy W. Simpson, Jr. Lufkin Industries 3
#5 Kenneth B. Vermillion 3
#9 Oliver Wayne Lawler 2
#9 Richard W Clutter HP 2
#9 Donald R. Petrash Abb Vetco Gray 2
#12 Thomas R. Rios ExxonMobil 1
#12 Trent A. Ferrill 1
#12 Gregory L. McCullough Bayer Materialscience Ag 1
#12 John Walden 1
#12 Ronald L. Rutzen 1
#12 Russel B. Leibfreid 1
#12 Jeff A. Higginbotham Amoco 1
#12 Terry G. White Houston Industrial 1
#12 Wallis W. Smith 1
#12 Jerry Nowling 1
#12 James E. Sager Bayer Materialscience Ag 1
#12 Marvin Earl Bilnoski, Jr. 1
#12 Michael L. Larpenter Halliburton Energy Services 1

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