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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 Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations, HP, Eastman Kodak. That works out to 47.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 9,951–10,000 of 21,073 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#8651 Sebastien Kamgang Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations 2
#8651 Anura Neysadurai HP 2
#8651 Charles E. Rinehart Eastman Kodak 2
#8651 Fatih Kara Baker Hughes Holdings 2
#8651 Gregg SAPP Conocophillips 2
#8651 Elmond F. Meinardus Riviana Foods 2
#8651 Frank W. Shepard Baker Hughes Holdings 2
#8651 Abeer Javed — 2
#8651 Eduardo Antonio Arismendi Jimenez IBM 2
#8651 George F. Sullivan, III Safoco 2
#8651 King Lau Chow Baylor College Of Medicine 2
#8651 Stephen Alstrin Netiq 2
#8651 John S. Ippolito Centrax International 2
#8651 Steven P. Klak — 2
#8651 Dang The VO — 2
#8651 Floyd L. Scott, Jr. Bj-Hughes 2
#8651 Alice Sorbier Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Gloria Dean Iwuala — 2
#8651 Noel A. Shenoi Tuboscope Vetco International 2
#8651 Tony S. Go Atlantic Richfield 2
#8651 C. Judith Chu Houston Advanced Research Center 2
#8651 Dale K. McLeod — 2
#8651 Krassimir I. Doynov — 2
#8651 Oscar B. Laird — 2
#8651 Qingzhao Kong University Of Houston System 2
#8651 Joao M P Correia Neves — 2
#8651 Mark J. Hommel Smith International 2
#8651 Kenneth C. Avery HP 2
#8651 Surya P. Banumurthy — 2
#8651 Keli Barham Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2
#8651 Yingcai Zheng University Of Houston System 2
#8651 Connie Wright Pacesetter 2
#8651 W. Scott Buckley Western Atlas International 2
#8651 Ray D. Willis Tuboscope 2
#8651 Glenn Plowman — 2
#8651 Peter J. Nolan Baker Hughes Holdings 2
#8651 Marc Moszkowski — 2
#8651 Robert Mazza Woodward 2
#8651 Gregory Douglas Abbott, II Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Dadigamuwage C. Golden NASA 2
#8651 Douglas W. Ming NASA 2
#8651 Min-Yin Chang Rohm And Haas 2
#8651 Weipeng Yang — 2
#8651 Arcadius V. Krivoshein University Of Houston System 2
#8651 Mohamed Gabr Abdallah Ut-Battelle 2
#8651 Harold E Armstrong — 2
#8651 Richard L. Mouser HP 2
#8651 David A. Kerley — 2
#8651 Michael Gundry Baylor College Of Medicine 2
#8651 Stephen M. Saffioti Stewart & Stevenson 2

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