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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 Weatherford Technology Holdings, L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude, Shell Oil Compny. That works out to 47.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,301–10,350 of 21,073 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#8651 Santhosh Ramaswamy Weatherford Technology Holdings 2
#8651 Oriane FARGES L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude 2
#8651 David B. Litzen Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Vladimir N. Potaman Texas Heart Institute 2
#8651 Peter Ferrer System Development 2
#8651 Natalie Forbes Flotek Chemistry 2
#8651 Paul R. Boutan System Development 2
#8651 Jose Francisco Islas Texas Heart Institute 2
#8651 Robin Lynn Hood — 2
#8651 David B. Throop Compaq Computer 2
#8651 Xinping Fu University Of Houston System 2
#8651 Romeo J. Leu — 2
#8651 Roberto Nicholas Cormack Ar 2
#8651 Michael Jonathan Smith Remicalm 2
#8651 Jon Macrae Thrubit, B.V. 2
#8651 Glen Wind — 2
#8651 Puneeth Iyengar Albert Einstein College Of Medicine Of Yeshiva University 2
#8651 Akil Houston Compaq Computer 2
#8651 Tanmay Chaturvedi Chevron 2
#8651 Denis Doremus Dowell, A Division Of Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Samer Alatrach Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Richard G. Ella Landmark Graphics 2
#8651 Chris Leake Vulcan Industrial Holdings 2
#8651 Jarryd Daniels Dril-Quip 2
#8651 Miao Pan Huaiyin Institute Of Technology 2
#8651 Jacob S. Warneke Dril-Quip 2
#8651 Dinesh P. Shah Baker Hughes Holdings 2
#8651 W. Harry McConnell — 2
#8651 Scott Myers Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Yuri Mackeyev William Marsh Rice University 2
#8651 Robert C. Harrison Compaq Computer 2
#8651 Cynthia A. Schultz — 2
#8651 Paul Anthony Rutecki Cybersonics 2
#8651 Derrick Melanson Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Luke Lloyd Wardensky HP 2
#8651 Louis J. Girard — 2
#8651 Philip I. Abrams ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Mathew A. Pfaller — 2
#8651 James H. Colton Compaq Computer 2
#8651 Max Lieber — 2
#8651 Glen E. Reed Unknown 2
#8651 Stephen J. Barth — 2
#8651 Uchenna Edeh Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2
#8651 Carson Edward Riggins Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Ronnie L. Hampton Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations 2
#8651 John E. Buffum Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Ronald J. Darcy Reliability Incorporated 2
#8651 Gregory W. West Houston Geophysical Products 2
#8651 Sofia Khan McGuire Nonlinear Seismic Imaging 2
#8651 Leslie Watkins Petrolite 2

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