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

Showing 9,801–9,850 of 21,073 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#8651 William J. Taparauskas, Jr. 2
#8651 James R. Barth ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Joseph Todd DeGidio 2
#8651 Marcus Joel Christian Persson Rydberg 2
#8651 Brian Joseph Thome Intermedics 2
#8651 Donna S. Anderson Baker Hughes Holdings 2
#8651 Vivek P. Singh Baylor College Of Medicine 2
#8651 Joseph C. Koudelka Baker Hughes Holdings 2
#8651 Ray Montez Saudi Basic Industries 2
#8651 Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed Chevron 2
#8651 Kenneth B. Mondshine Texas United Chemical Company 2
#8651 Vivekkumar B. Patel Baylor College Of Medicine 2
#8651 Thomas Edward Stowell GE 2
#8651 Peter H. Proctor 2
#8651 Joseph E. Penkala Baker Hughes, A Ge Company 2
#8651 James E. Hoffman ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Pamela K. Collum 2
#8651 Wayne S. Jones Umicore Ag & Co. Kg 2
#8651 Caroline Elaine Porter Baylor College Of Medicine 2
#8651 Chaitanya Sathaiah Vudutha Merichem 2
#8651 Richard J. Babaian University Of Texas System 2
#8651 Natalia Lapteva Bellicum Pharmaceuticals 2
#8651 Alexander Zazovosky Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Donald Bryan Freeman MIT 2
#8651 Masataka Suzuki Baylor College Of Medicine 2
#8651 Abhijit Mazumdar Io Therapeutics 2
#8651 Huan Le Lockheed Martin 2
#8651 Cassandra Moyer Io Therapeutics 2
#8651 Timothy Kyle Johnston Hmt 2
#8651 David P. Tuturea Brown & Root 2
#8651 Marc A. Churan M. I. Co. 2
#8651 Kenneth W. Kennedy, Jr. Rice University 2
#8651 Andres Barron Viking Cold Solutons 2
#8651 Simon Scott Fuentes Moneyhun Equipment Sales & Service Co. 2
#8651 Brandi Katherine Price William Marsh Rice University 2
#8651 John Hamilton McGillis Ina Acquisition 2
#8651 John T. Andersen 2
#8651 Roger M. Logan Western Atlas International 2
#8651 Jack B. Moorhead 2
#8651 Manik Kapoor Bosch Rexroth 2
#8651 Preshit Gawade Merichem 2
#8651 Shawn Stewart 2
#8651 Rebecca L. Rosas Lonza 2
#8651 Alf Klaveness 2
#8651 Peggy Nugent 2
#8651 Guillermo Tortolero-Luna University Of Texas System 2
#8651 Rob Nordlander Wwt North America Holdings 2
#8651 Carl Edward Penuel Smith International 2
#8651 Gregory David Hale Freeescale Semiconductor 2
#8651 Ankur Dahiya 2

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