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 Shell Oil Compny, Halliburton Energy Services, Citibank, N.A.. That works out to 47.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,501–10,550 of 21,073 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#8651 Paul Taylor Hamilton Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Milburn Eugene Cummins 2
#8651 Aram Shihab Khaleel Almuhana Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Rui Defigueiredo Citibank, N.A. 2
#8651 Raymond J. Staebel Atlantic Richfield 2
#8651 Derek RHOADES William Marsh Rice University 2
#8651 Eric Pierre de Rouffignac Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 John Salyer Baker Hughes Holdings 2
#8651 Csaba Kato 2
#8651 Jeff Dinkel Tam International 2
#8651 Boris Belyi First Data 2
#8651 Michael J. Davila Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Jeffrey Maloy NOE Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Theodore H. Fleisch Amoco 2
#8651 Kurt W. Rudolph ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Chen-hwa Chiu Air Products And Chemicals 2
#8651 Sue-Hwa Shiau Lin University Of Texas System 2
#8651 Sung-I Johnson Conocophillips 2
#8651 Emanuel Smeds Texas A&M University System 2
#8651 Aaron F. Williams 2
#8651 Rajiv Kohli The Aerospace 2
#8651 Prasad Baloo Kerkar Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Daniel Robert Oswalt HP 2
#8651 Charles H. Wellington Dresser Industries 2
#8651 Sara Regina Portilla Wanderley Chevron 2
#8651 Anthony D. Griffith, SR. The Aerospace 2
#8651 Eric Paul Mirabel Tcp Reliable 2
#8651 Alexander D. King Weatherford Technology Holdings 2
#8651 Robert Dupree Phillips Petroleum 2
#8651 Francis D. Logan 2
#8651 Robert E. Sheriff 2
#8651 John A. Martone Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Minh Leba Igloo Products 2
#8651 Jaya R A K Yellajosula Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories 2
#8651 Nicole Rendon Koegel Rohm And Haas 2
#8651 David DUPONT Umicore 2
#8651 David C. DeMartini Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Ali Daneshy 2
#8651 James Shelton Liquid Air Engineering 2
#8651 Shao WEN Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co. 2
#8651 Homer C. Jones ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Gertrude L. Barnstone 2
#8651 Eugene L. Brickman Trw Limited 2
#8651 Eric HAAS Coors Brewing 2
#8651 Kelli M. Rettew Chevron 2
#8651 Oleg Mishchenko Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 A. Nicholas Roe 2
#8651 Eugene L. Dobesh F. H. Maloney 2
#8651 Thiago Aparecido Da Silva University Of Texas System 2
#8651 Fritz E. Jacobs ExxonMobil 2

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