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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 Shell Oil Compny, Schnabel Foundation, Anderson, Greenwood Lp. That works out to 47.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,451–10,500 of 21,073 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#8651 Richard Gross — 2
#8651 George Ellis DeVaull, III Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Ernest D. Brandl Schnabel Foundation 2
#8651 Irvin B. Weise, deceased Anderson, Greenwood Lp 2
#8651 Subashini Asokan William Marsh Rice University 2
#8651 Lakshmi Putcha NASA 2
#8651 Michael W. Singleton Gas Research Institute 2
#8651 Matthew R. Orr IBM 2
#8651 Richard L. Ahlgrim Big Inch Marine Systems 2
#8651 John Joseph Kenney Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Michael Bargar — 2
#8651 Floyd A. Riddell — 2
#8651 William Michael Pritchett Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Pamela Gray — 2
#8651 Jude P. Galligan — 2
#8651 Kathryn L. Payne Dowell Schlumberger Incorporated 2
#8651 Tamas Varadi Merichem 2
#8651 Joshua Hebert — 2
#8651 Orlando A. Mejia Fmc 2
#8651 Suchitra Boonyarattaphun — 2
#8651 Coen De Oude Kraton Polymers 2
#8651 Michel Issa Abla Championx Usa 2
#8651 John Burton Steele — 2
#8651 Farhad Ravandi University Of Illinois 2
#8651 Jeffrey Kubiak Innovex Downhole Solutions 2
#8651 Siriwong S. Chanaratsopon — 2
#8651 Kenneth R. Burton, Jr. — 2
#8651 Thomas Lindvig Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Guillermo A. Amtmann — 2
#8651 Donald R. Hanst — 2
#8651 Nicholas E. Propson WARF 2
#8651 James Michael Holcomb Dewalch Technologies 2
#8651 John Bryan Dresser Industries 2
#8651 William H. Gunn — 2
#8651 Michael Sanborn — 2
#8651 Francis Seidel Furon 2
#8651 Jason Kelly Allison — 2
#8651 Paul Danziger — 2
#8651 Curtis Bennett AMD 2
#8651 Calvin W. Eastep — 2
#8651 Greg Jason Muller Ilc Dover Lp 2
#8651 Diana Cardona Baker Hughes, A Ge Company 2
#8651 Douwe Henrik de Vries — 2
#8651 Rajan N. Chokshi Weatherford Technology Holdings 2
#8651 Maxim Vasilievich Ovchinnikov Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Luis E. Gonzales Weatherford Technology Holdings 2
#8651 Aaron Childers Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2
#8651 Michael J. Kubinski National-Oilwell 2
#8651 Marlon Arboleda — 2
#8651 Benjamin MOWAD Shell Oil Compny 2

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