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 ExxonMobil, Pure Safety Group, Shell Oil Compny. That works out to 47.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 11,101–11,150 of 21,073 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#8651 Anton Stuart Hunt 2
#8651 Umar Aslam ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Luis D. Herrera Pure Safety Group 2
#8651 Richard J. Moehring 2
#8651 Brandon McFarlane Foote Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Jaleel Valappil Conocophillips 2
#8651 Daniel Mailman Spice Technologies 2
#8651 Judith F. Margolin 2
#8651 Volker Eyermann 2
#8651 Grover S. Paulett Chevron 2
#8651 Marvin E. Chernosky 2
#8651 Marie-Claude Gingras 2
#8651 Kary Meadows G&H Diversified Manufacturing Lp 2
#8651 William Perry LAMAR Forum Us 2
#8651 Matthew Michael LINDE 2
#8651 Shurong Huang Fmc 2
#8651 Jimmy H. Bryan 2
#8651 Oddbjorn Hjelle Geco As 2
#8651 Elizabeth Woods Walters Milliken & 2
#8651 Kurt Hopf Caterpillar 2
#8651 Donald Robison Endurance Lift Solutions 2
#8651 Angelo Sampaolo Saudi Arabian Oil 2
#8651 Matthew L. Anderson University Of Houston 2
#8651 Suresh G. Thadani Halliburton 2
#8651 Amado J. Zurita University Of Texas System 2
#8651 Hatice Ozsoy University Of Texas System 2
#8651 Randal Whitaker Continuus Materials Intellectual Property 2
#8651 Lee A. Littlejohn ExxonMobil 2
#8651 Celia M. Francis Compaq Computer 2
#8651 Richard B. Logan Landmark Graphics 2
#8651 Ates C. Dumlupinar Apple 2
#8651 Quoc Co Tran Sailpoint Technologies 2
#8651 Qingkai Yu University Of Houston 2
#8651 Jayson D. Denham National Oilwell Varco 2
#8651 Russell S. Vail 2
#8651 Phillip Scott FAIR Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Michael KIRCHNER 2
#8651 Marvin Fox Whirlpool 2
#8651 Pui-Yuen Jeffrey Chan Shell Oil Compny 2
#8651 Glenn Outerbridge 2
#8651 Jason C. Stingerie Baker Hughes Holdings 2
#8651 Amer Boushehri Sprint Communications 2
#8651 D. Duncan Blue Baker Hughes Holdings 2
#8651 Brady Gallwey 2
#8651 Christina M. Hines The Procter & Gamble 2
#8651 John Gillespie McCann Becton, Dickinson And 2
#8651 Rusty Petree 2
#8651 Olukemi Aardalsbakke Schlumberger Technology 2
#8651 Bert Gustav Shelton 2
#8651 Srikanth Bemineni Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2

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