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 Meteorcomm, Milchem Incorporated, Unknown. That works out to 47.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 9,101–9,150 of 21,073 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#8651 Peter D. Donich Meteorcomm 2
#8651 Weldon B. Nance Milchem Incorporated 2
#8651 Brian Lee Karasic Unknown 2
#8651 Rondel Albarado University Of Texas System 2
#8651 D. Keith Withington System Development 2
#8651 Reese W. Murdock System Development 2
#8651 John Collis Zf Sachs Ag 2
#8651 Herbert C. Wilson Dresser Industries 2
#8651 Byron Cain Input/Output 2
#8651 Cecilia Prieto Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Robert Vajtai Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2
#8651 Andrea Marcinkova Albemarle 2
#8651 Timothy J. Hart Chevron 2
#8651 Leslie R. Denham Vaisala Oyj 2
#8651 Howard H. Kaufman 2
#8651 Muhammad YAQOOB Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Gordon E. Clunn 2
#8651 Steven E. Presutti William Marsh Rice University 2
#8651 Marya McCarty University Of Texas System 2
#8651 Terence F. Townend 2
#8651 Kenneth Godeke Grant Prideco 2
#8651 Chris McKlemurry Grant Prideco 2
#8651 Neil F. N. Milsted Dytel 2
#8651 Minh Ha 2
#8651 Predrag Radosavljevic Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L. 2
#8651 Corey Dufrene Nippon Steel 2
#8651 Richard S. Lin 2
#8651 Niharika Mateti Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2
#8651 Phap Hung Lien Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Kenneth Scianna IBM 2
#8651 Gary J. Elkington Geokinetics Acquisition 2
#8651 Tanner Welch Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations 2
#8651 Michael G. Stanford William Marsh Rice University 2
#8651 Maria Krovatkina Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Dana Ungermannova University of Colorado 2
#8651 Eugene A. Smitherman 2
#8651 Lee H. Gollwitzer Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Max Stetzer National Coupling Company 2
#8651 Qiushi Sun Saudi Arabian Oil 2
#8651 Norman Smith 2
#8651 Edward Eugene Shumilak, II Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Carol L. Pressman US Dept of Health & Human Services 2
#8651 Nick A. Shkumat Carestream Health 2
#8651 J. Foreman ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Roderick Drake 2
#8651 Kevin Gendron Cameron Iron Works 2
#8651 Lon T. Maduro 2
#8651 Larry J. Mitchell ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Ronald Schanlaub Nabors Drilling Technologies Usa 2
#8651 Manoj Ramachandran Technip France 2

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