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 Weldfit, Lummus Crest, University Of Texas System. That works out to 47.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,351–10,400 of 21,073 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#8651 Phil Lewis 2
#8651 Roxy R. Riggs Weldfit 2
#8651 Thomas W. Gronauer Lummus Crest 2
#8651 Russ C. Sander Weldfit 2
#8651 Aaron Raymond University Of Texas System 2
#8651 Judith A. Newton Chevron 2
#8651 Raymond G. Finucane US Dept of Energy 2
#8651 Rainer Potthast Dow Global Technologies 2
#8651 John T. Spencer Compaq Computer 2
#8651 A. S. David Khemakhem ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Martin H. McGuffin 2
#8651 Arnoldo Rolon Baker Hughes Holdings 2
#8651 G. Wray Curtis M. I. Co. 2
#8651 John T. Bullock NASA 2
#8651 William E. Kline ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Henry W. Harding 2
#8651 Choongyong Han Chevron 2
#8651 Efim Metsner Agar Corporation 2
#8651 John L. Bohrer 2
#8651 Nathan Burcham Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations 2
#8651 Christopher P. Mullin National Oilwell Varco 2
#8651 Jonathan B. Hough 2
#8651 Abhishek Bhatt Daniel Industries 2
#8651 J. Nicolas Vauthey University of Florida Foundation 2
#8651 Joseph A. Villanueva Compaq Computer 2
#8651 Nancy Kneib-Cordonier Unknown 2
#8651 Stephen Bruce Fry Baker Hughes Holdings 2
#8651 Frederick E. Willcox, II 2
#8651 Thornton E. Cory 2
#8651 Abdellatif El Marrouni William Marsh Rice University 2
#8651 Wenying WANG Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co. 2
#8651 S. Frank Rey ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Zackery Ray Alolabi 2
#8651 Rodolfo Lugo GE 2
#8651 Salman Rashid Jetfill 2
#8651 Joy P. Cocchiara Kraton Polymers 2
#8651 Calvin R. Blakley Agresearch Limited 2
#8651 Abdullah Al-Bayati University Of Houston System 2
#8651 Oktay Metin Gokdemir Baker Hughes, A Ge Company 2
#8651 Francesca Nilsen 2
#8651 Jack R. Creel 2
#8651 Gregory Lizée University Of Texas System 2
#8651 Fergus Coutts Hines Abb Vetco Gray 2
#8651 Roy Mitchell Guinn Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Steven Robbins 2
#8651 Nishaneth K. Mehta Servi-Tech 2
#8651 Prakash Kumar Arcot Hydril Usa Distribution 2
#8651 Jackson R. Claycomb Dresser Industries 2
#8651 Timothy H. Foreman, JR. 2
#8651 William T. Cutts 2

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