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 Loudeye, Combustion Engineering, Baker Hughes Holdings. That works out to 47.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 9,401–9,450 of 21,073 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#8651 Trang S. Palmer 2
#8651 Dean Heil 2
#8651 Terry D. Hester Loudeye 2
#8651 W. Wayne Holden Combustion Engineering 2
#8651 Adrian V. Villacorta 2
#8651 John E. McGinness 2
#8651 Turlach Paul Boylan Baker Hughes Holdings 2
#8651 David March Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Stephen Skerl 2
#8651 Muhammad Sadiq Metna Co 2
#8651 Benjamin Michael Snyder Vetco Gray 2
#8651 Vince Giorgi Abb Lummus Global 2
#8651 Leroy A. Bash 2
#8651 Jerry Pyka Smith International 2
#8651 Jacob Michael Proctor Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Bo Howell 2
#8651 Ronnie Schkade Texas Instruments 2
#8651 Clyde Wesley Bryan 2
#8651 Dana Barnes 2
#8651 Miro E. Klecka Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Jesse Mark Brumbaugh 2
#8651 Pascal Dorster Texas Instruments 2
#8651 Pearl E. Stephenson Marathon Oil 2
#8651 Ningyang ZHANG University Of Texas System 2
#8651 John Howard Craig Stewart & Stevenson Services 2
#8651 Eduardo A. Requena Better Bags 2
#8651 Brady Lee Kirchof Chevron 2
#8651 Kelly D. Stephens Dresser Industries 2
#8651 Fouad Khoury Friadent Gmbh 2
#8651 Raymond J. Ayala, Jr. 2
#8651 Ching-Nan Ou 2
#8651 Mollie Hellige First Data 2
#8651 Richard Dale Swain Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Diana L. Hertel Unknown 2
#8651 Guney Guven Yapici Ozyegin Universitesi 2
#8651 Chun Shin Lin 2
#8651 Larry Ortega 2
#8651 Robert Huffman 2
#8651 Celso Siado Rockwell Automation Asia Pacific Business Center Pte. 2
#8651 Ernst Rudolf Man Schnell Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Yasuaki ANAMI University Of Texas System 2
#8651 Naum Moiseyevich Derzhi Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Stephen P. J. Cossey 2
#8651 Warren Short 2
#8651 Sarah Purcell 2
#8651 Michael R. French Chevron 2
#8651 Danny T. Kelso Platinum Plus 2
#8651 Kyoji TSUCHIKAMA University Of Texas System 2
#8651 Charles Eugene Becht, III 2
#8651 Franz R. Brotzen Rice University 2

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