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Houston, TX All Time

109,516 patents  ·  21,073 inventors  ·  47.5/1k pop.

Ranked #48 of 111,555 cities Top 1%

Houston, TX ranks #48 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 109,516 patents from 21,073 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Houston, TX include Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Thyssenkrupp Ag, Stcube & Co.. That works out to 47.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 8,851–8,900 of 21,073 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#8651 Paul N. Greff Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2
#8651 Rick Hall — 2
#8651 Bill Bryant Thyssenkrupp Ag 2
#8651 Amrish Sharma Stcube & Co. 2
#8651 Michel J. Bosse-Platiere Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Violeta Ramos-Edwards Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations 2
#8651 William B. Maurer Lockheed Martin 2
#8651 Felix Guadalupe Gonzalez Electronic Power Design 2
#8651 Keri C. Smith — 2
#8651 Heath Butler — 2
#8651 Reid Poynor Tam International 2
#8651 Chris Kluczyk — 2
#8651 Jaison C. John Unknown 2
#8651 Alexis Garcia Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Bobby L. Hayes — 2
#8651 John C. Purvis Ply Gem Industries 2
#8651 Timothy N. McDonough HP 2
#8651 H. Spencer Stone — 2
#8651 Elena Petrova Tomowave Laboratories 2
#8651 Chester W. Kronke Dtc International 2
#8651 Jose Angel Caridad Urena Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Dennis Tzyy-nian Yieh Rockwell Automation 2
#8651 Stephen C. Cook — 2
#8651 Gary Reisen Catalytic Distillation Technologies 2
#8651 Nathan L. Turner Denka Chemical 2
#8651 Marshall M. Morgan — 2
#8651 Ivan A. Burns Acf Industries Incorporated 2
#8651 Charles R. Sherer — 2
#8651 Dana C. Beebe Dtc International 2
#8651 Virendra Manral Catalytic Distillation Technologies 2
#8651 Luke Bryan Lumpkin — 2
#8651 Daniel J. Penny Baylor College Of Medicine 2
#8651 C. Peter Huang The Pullman 2
#8651 Houssem Kharrat Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Jiangfeng Zhu William Marsh Rice University 2
#8651 Jiming Dai IBM 2
#8651 Arturo Javier Contreras Chevron 2
#8651 Calhoun B. Hamilton, IV — 2
#8651 Peter N. Tarbutton Miles Laboratories 2
#8651 Harvey Greenberg Hydro Green Energy 2
#8651 Kimberly K. Mayhew — 2
#8651 Charles Woodville Davis Akzo Nobel Chemicals International B.V 2
#8651 Bradley R. Kellogg Baker Hughes, A Ge Company 2
#8651 Pauline Mai Nanya Technology 2
#8651 Mark R. Bartlett Avery Dennison 2
#8651 James F. Pawlowski Daimlerchrysler Ag 2
#8651 Douglas Donald Seller Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Darren Ansley Raptor Technologies 2
#8651 Chuan-Yang Lee Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2
#8651 Don W. Lane — 2

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