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 Abb Vetco Gray, Shell Usa, Halliburton Energy Services. That works out to 47.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 9,251–9,300 of 21,073 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#8651 William M. Andrews 2
#8651 Arjin Nolan Abb Vetco Gray 2
#8651 David Hagen 2
#8651 Christopher Paul EMBORSKY Shell Usa 2
#8651 Donald R. Siems Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Olga S. Pogrebinsky Synergy Biosystems 2
#8651 James Bandura Raymond International Builders 2
#8651 Dale Stetson Goodman Global Group 2
#8651 Saurabh S. Maduskar ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Eric Garza Goodman Global Group 2
#8651 Ronald B. Higgins Compaq Computer 2
#8651 Thomas B. Mayfield Erc 2
#8651 Stephen Merschat Goodman Global Group 2
#8651 Jimmy R. Martin, Jr. Combustion Engineering 2
#8651 Nicolas Sawaya ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Ivan Vargas Daktronics 2
#8651 Henrique Tono Ingrain 2
#8651 Clarence C. Reeves Speeflo Manufacturing 2
#8651 Philip K. Baltz Texas Instruments 2
#8651 Steven Craig Atwood 2
#8651 Sam Sann 2
#8651 Andres Konya Micro Therapeutics 2
#8651 Carl J. Swift 2
#8651 Harold E. Stockton, JR. 2
#8651 Andrew Thomas Ruhl Chevron 2
#8651 Adolph J. Foral Gas Research Institute 2
#8651 George F. Schudy 2
#8651 Jack J. Flagg Dresser Industries 2
#8651 Gerald Murphy Vestas Wind Systems A/S 2
#8651 Christopher T. Nikirk Kvm Technologies 2
#8651 Alfonzo Zermeno 2
#8651 Tchong Chin Mao 2
#8651 John Neal Strunk E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And 2
#8651 JANINE SHIPMAN Beijing Huamei 2
#8651 Mitchell Wu Genband Us 2
#8651 Jeffrey J. Phillips ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Walter W. Scarborough 2
#8651 SUJAYA RAO Oregon State University 2
#8651 Jayna Brown Fina Technology 2
#8651 Ionescu Mihai National Oilwell Varco 2
#8651 James R. Duncan HP 2
#8651 Ifigeneia Tzannou Baylor College Of Medicine 2
#8651 Steven L. Martin IBM 2
#8651 Austin Cornelius Usa Industries 2
#8651 Michael Dov Hammer Borealis Technical Limited 2
#8651 Richard Gladstone E-Plan 2
#8651 Pailbel Aguayo-Hiraldo Baylor College Of Medicine 2
#8651 Jagathguru Chandrasekharan Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. 2
#8651 Tatiana Eliseeva Abs Materials 2
#8651 Diancheng Wang Cgg Services Sas 2

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