Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Irving, TX ranks #494 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 6,643 patents from 1,396 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Irving, TX include Blackberry Limited, Sprint Spectrum, Lennox Industries. That works out to 25.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 1,396 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Yi Yu Blackberry Limited 157
2 Muhammad Ahsan Naim Sprint Spectrum 132
3 Rakesh Goel Lennox Industries 112
#4 Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy 7-Eleven 99
#5 Kalyani Bogineni Verizon 83
#6 Thomas Jules Frosell Halliburton Energy Services 80
#7 Satish Gundabathula Damaka 78
#8 David H. Lu AT&T 69
#9 Venkata S. Adimatyam Verizon 68
#10 Thomas Purcell Alphatec Spine 66
#11 John Richard Taylor Panzura 65
#12 Imtiyaz Shaikh Verizon 60
#13 Brad A. Cobler Poly-America 59
#14 John G. Fischer Delphi Technologies 55
#15 Stephen William O'Brien Tsi Products 53
#16 Melean Visnick Reata Pharmaceuticals Holdings 50
#16 Rene Purnadi Blackberry Limited 50
#18 Donald B. Doherty Texas Instruments 48
#19 Sameer Gavade Verizon 46
#20 Jack Anthony Smith Motorola 45
#21 Sarath Vakacharla 7-Eleven 43
#21 Rajesh Khamankar Texas Instruments 43
#21 Shashikant Maheshwari Nokia Siemens Networks Oy 43
#24 Ashutosh K. Sureka Verizon 41
#25 Ayham Al-Banna Arris Enterprises 39
#26 Sven Roy Lofstrom Sikorsky Aircraft 38
#26 Sumit Patel IBM 38
#28 Wayne K. Pfaff Plastronics Socket Partners 36
#29 Naveen Kakani Nokia 35
#29 Umesh Gokhale Lennox Industries 35
#31 Jose L. Ortega Fci Americas Technology 33
#31 James Paul Warden Blackberry Limited 33
#31 Binny Asarikuniyil Directv 33
#31 Jing Chang Huang IBM 33
#35 Rose Qingyang Hu Blackberry Limited 32
#35 Site Li Landscape Forms 32
#37 Craig Warner HP 30
#37 Arndt Andresen Hilti Aktiengesellschaft 30
#37 Federico Fraccaroli Nokia 30
#40 Manah M. Khalil Verizon 29
#40 Michael W Rejkowski Classic Auto Air Manufacturing Lp 29
#42 Sunny Behl Inclose Design 28
#42 John J. Michelsen Ca 28
#42 Joseph W. A. Off Haggar 28
#42 Mirza Faizan 28
#46 Ronald T. Taylor Cirrus Logic 27
#46 Scott M. Boyette GE 27
#48 Syed Zafar Beyabani Verizon 26
#49 Vidhya Seran Verizon 25
#49 Sanjay Ahuja Verizon 25

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