Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

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 Baylor College Of Medicine, Baker Hughes Holdings, William Marsh Rice University. That works out to 47.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 8,951–9,000 of 21,073 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#8651 Jack V. Knight Baylor College Of Medicine 2
#8651 Michael E. Wiley Baker Hughes Holdings 2
#8651 William H. Winters 2
#8651 Constantine D. Armeniades William Marsh Rice University 2
#8651 Ross Gerard Cazenave Chevron 2
#8651 Kevin Abrego JPMorgan Chase 2
#8651 Mahendrapratap Singh JPMorgan Chase 2
#8651 Matthew R. Taylor Deepwater Corrosion Services 2
#8651 Nils Kaageson-Loe M-I L.L.C. 2
#8651 Saunab Ghosh Apache 2
#8651 James R. Colvin 2
#8651 Samuel Z. Wilson Baylor College Of Medicine 2
#8651 David L. Cotrell Baker Hughes, A Ge Company 2
#8651 Derman Smith Santander Amador 2
#8651 Leonard Landriault Hydril 2
#8651 Sukhen C. Ghosh University Of Texas System 2
#8651 Howard C. Clark 2
#8651 J. Mark Williams 2
#8651 Nancy Nguyen Hansgrohe Se 2
#8651 Kenneth R. Kunze ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Nora L. DeDontney ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Bashar Alramahi ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Catherine Schwartz Compaq Computer 2
#8651 Hunter Michael Alan Carr 2
#8651 Abnash C. Sachdeva Texas Instruments 2
#8651 Timothy Hester Cubic 2
#8651 Constance M. Cernosek Unknown 2
#8651 Kevin Legris Technip France 2
#8651 Bharath Ramesh Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2
#8651 Colby Jarrett Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Jason Lovaine Blaylock 2
#8651 Jayne Kapur Bristol-Myers Squibb 2
#8651 Sylvia Juliette Crone 2
#8651 Michael R. Morgenthaler 2
#8651 Thomas Zachary Vonk Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Don D. Fitzgerald 2
#8651 Thomas Louis Joseph Yonley Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Kristen Anne Belcourt Chevron 2
#8651 Richard A. Albert Conocophillips 2
#8651 Dudley L. Robinson Weatherford/Lamb 2
#8651 Harsh Biren Vora Landmark Graphics 2
#8651 Navin Aswal 2
#8651 George Zouridakis University Of Houston 2
#8651 Abdul Wahid Munshi Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Barry L. Olawsky HP 2
#8651 Courtney Leeann Beck Landmark Graphics 2
#8651 Charles Hai Wang Landmark Graphics 2
#8651 Dominic Chero U.S. Well Services 2
#8651 Bert E. Gracia Brown & Root 2
#8651 Patrick Minter Killough Shell Oil Compny 2

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