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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 ExxonMobil, Halliburton Energy Services, Amazon. That works out to 47.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 10,551–10,600 of 21,073 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#8651 Charles White — 2
#8651 Wilbur L. Bridges ExxonMobil 2
#8651 David L. Lindsey — 2
#8651 Seth Cormier Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Kevin W. Carpenter Amazon 2
#8651 James Vaull Bonds Acf Industries Incorporated 2
#8651 Kenneth W. Guynes Unknown 2
#8651 Gregory Morrow — 2
#8651 Janice S. Mathew Chevron 2
#8651 Brandon Bourg Weatherford Technology Holdings 2
#8651 Paul D. Dauben First Data 2
#8651 Dino K. Teas Air Liquide Industrial U.S. Lp 2
#8651 Brenton Grant Phillips Innovation Specialists 2
#8651 Leslie N. Keller Oracle 2
#8651 John D.Y. Ou ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Cornelius F. Boerkoel, III Baylor College Of Medicine 2
#8651 Eric P. Klein Air Liquide Industrial U.S. Lp 2
#8651 Leslie Owuraku BAKSMATY Fugro N.V. 2
#8651 Nicholas Michaels Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Chuka Benjamin Onya Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Will Edgar Hendricks Halliburton Energy Services 2
#8651 Krishnanand Anandan Vetco Gray 2
#8651 Allen J. Owings — 2
#8651 Nikhil Dayanand Chevron 2
#8651 Sean T. Pheasant William Marsh Rice University 2
#8651 Gabriel Bursaux Stolt Offshore 2
#8651 Marco Sardiello Baylor College Of Medicine 2
#8651 Karthigan Srinivasan HP 2
#8651 Amanda K. Miller ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Paul R. Gucwa Marathon Oil 2
#8651 Edwin A. Epstein, III — 2
#8651 Dennis Mackin University Of Texas System 2
#8651 Rexford Hayes Valentis 2
#8651 Sam D. McMullen — 2
#8651 Bilal Zoghbi Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations 2
#8651 Bora Tarhan ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Joshua R. Lowry ExxonMobil 2
#8651 T. E. Kiovsky Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Yufen Shao ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Herman W. Mueschke, Jr. — 2
#8651 Kerry S. Kennington Hughes Tool Company 2
#8651 Juan Botas Baylor College Of Medicine 2
#8651 Douglas Rock Smith International 2
#8651 Souk Souvannavong — 2
#8651 Talmadge L. Crowe Baker International 2
#8651 Edward J. McFadden Bj-Hughes 2
#8651 Hossein Amin-Javaheri — 2
#8651 John R. Eckel, Jr. — 2
#8651 Larry H. Leggett M-I L.L.C. 2
#8651 Dwight E. Shoemaker, Jr. — 2

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