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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 Detectachem, Inventio Ag, Baker Hughes Holdings. That works out to 47.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 9,051–9,100 of 21,073 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#8651 Michael K. Welter — 2
#8651 Daniel H. Horowitz — 2
#8651 Kristin L. Harriman Detectachem 2
#8651 Stephen Hart Inventio Ag 2
#8651 Vernon E. Groeschel Baker Hughes Holdings 2
#8651 Harold Merry Saudi Arabian Oil 2
#8651 Melrose T. Garrett — 2
#8651 Robert D. Cotherman Shell Western E & P 2
#8651 Renu Susan Babu Hall — 2
#8651 Joel Watts University Of Texas System 2
#8651 George D. Newton — 2
#8651 James J. McCusker Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Sana Syecia Ali HP 2
#8651 Ewa Nowara Mitsubishi Electric 2
#8651 Nitish Chaudhari Landmark Graphics 2
#8651 John Ambrose Harold — 2
#8651 Herbert L. Walpole Unknown 2
#8651 Michael Contello — 2
#8651 Humberto T. Zarate — 2
#8651 Mimi HEALY Agilent Technologies 2
#8651 Cecil R. Gilbreath Geosource 2
#8651 Aysegul A. Sahin University Of Texas System 2
#8651 Hugh Zabriskie Palantir Technologies 2
#8651 Gordon T. French, Jr. Houston Industrial 2
#8651 Prasanna Mani University Of Houston System 2
#8651 Hend A. Hanna University Of Texas System 2
#8651 Jayesh P. Thawani University of Pennsylvania 2
#8651 James Youngblood — 2
#8651 Jeffrey A. Liggett — 2
#8651 Omonike Arike Olaleye Texas Southern University 2
#8651 Barret Heinrich Cameron International 2
#8651 Bruce L. Skiles — 2
#8651 Benton W. Hamilton — 2
#8651 Anupama Venkataraman ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Kaleb Steinhauer — 2
#8651 James Muir Drummond Ascend Geo 2
#8651 Abner Mhashilkar Avant Immunotherapeutics 2
#8651 Ben Steinhauer — 2
#8651 Daniel Jobe Trilliant Surgical 2
#8651 Elisa Rice United Laboratories International 2
#8651 Gregory L. Jeter — 2
#8651 Vojtech Haikl Texas Instruments 2
#8651 Edward O. Bennett — 2
#8651 Jeremy Smith Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Jared Bruns Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Yuecun Lou — 2
#8651 Joel G. Altman — 2
#8651 Paul S. Engel William Marsh Rice University 2
#8651 Wen-Tong Tai Baroid Technology 2
#8651 Eric Rothe University Of Texas System 2

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