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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 Chevron, The Johns Hopkins University, Dover Associates. That works out to 47.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,401–10,450 of 21,073 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#8651 Raymond Laplante Chevron 2
#8651 William Jeang The Johns Hopkins University 2
#8651 Ray Mason — 2
#8651 Daniel C. Olmsted Dover Associates 2
#8651 Terry W. Deville Diagnostic Products 2
#8651 Weixin Lu University Of Texas System 2
#8651 Steven Birdwell — 2
#8651 Paul J. Lanasa — 2
#8651 Herman Eugene Mitchell — 2
#8651 Marion D. Meyers Sandoz Ag 2
#8651 Donnie G Wahlquist Compaq Computer 2
#8651 Gerald M. Timpe Diagnostic Products 2
#8651 Cindy Ly Meso Scale Technologies, Llc. 2
#8651 Michael James Carden Iowa State University 2
#8651 Dennis Rader Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Zvi Sofer Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Xavier Connaulte Single Buoy Moorings 2
#8651 Parag Parekh Baylor College Of Medicine 2
#8651 Carl W. Johnson — 2
#8651 Graham A. Stoner Sandoz Ag 2
#8651 Joseph Graham — 2
#8651 Mark Havel — 2
#8651 Yee Mei Mok Sinomax-Usa 2
#8651 Kamila B. Abdur-Rahman M. I. Co. 2
#8651 Benjamin R. Luscomb, III Weatherford/Lamb 2
#8651 Victor K. Leung Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Rob Early Baker Hughes, A Ge Company 2
#8651 Stephen F. Tanner Encon Safety Products 2
#8651 Jon Busick Rohm And Haas 2
#8651 Michael Lockridge Nabors Drilling Technologies Usa 2
#8651 Yishu SONG Conocophillips 2
#8651 Rei-Nan R. Hwan Chevron 2
#8651 Beth A. Fitch ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Peter Knoer US Dept of Energy 2
#8651 Thomas Kristian Eckols Baylor College Of Medicine 2
#8651 Chakrapani Mandava Nabors Drilling Technologies Usa 2
#8651 Richard D. Fenner — 2
#8651 Ralph H. Clinard Chevron 2
#8651 Terence Gelo — 2
#8651 Ryan William Phillips — 2
#8651 Elias Margonis Air Liquide Industrial U.S. Lp 2
#8651 Chieh Chu Basf Se 2
#8651 Daniel R. Faltysek Unknown 2
#8651 Kerry Huguet Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Quoc Hung C Vu Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2
#8651 Jouko V. Sillanpaa Inhibitex 2
#8651 Moctezuma Rodriguez — 2
#8651 Ramalingeshwara R. Nimmagudda NASA 2
#8651 Joshua Parsons — 2
#8651 Easwar Santhosh Ranganathan Shell Oil Compny 2

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