Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Spring, TX ranks #231 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 12,810 patents from 2,039 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Spring, TX include Phillips Petroleum, Halliburton Energy Services, HP. That works out to 204.8 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 2,039 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Elizabeth A. Benham Phillips Petroleum 151
2 Paul F. Rodney Halliburton Energy Services 135
2 Stacy L. Wolff HP 135
#4 Dragan B. Stojkovic Ford 132
#5 Kevin L. Massaro HP 123
#6 Youhe Zhang Smith International 122
#7 Harry D. Smith, Jr. 88
#8 Vidyasagar Vuligonda AbbVie 86
#8 Yuelin Shen Smith International 86
#10 Valiuddin Y. Ali HP 85
#11 George D. Megason Hewlett Packard Enterprise 84
#12 Richard Thomas Hay Halliburton Energy Services 77
#13 Gary W. Sams 73
#14 Aaron Michael Beuterbaugh Halliburton Energy Services 71
#15 Isaac Lagnado HP 68
#16 David Quijano HP 63
#17 Robert A. Grigsby, Jr. Huntsman Petrochemical 59
#17 Martin E. Sanders Io Therapeutics 59
#19 Gregory Prevost Xr Lateral 58
#20 Siamak Tavallaei Compaq Computer 57
#21 Syed S. Azam HP 56
#22 Frank Benjamin Springett National Oilwell Varco 54
#22 Dwight D. Riley HP 54
#24 Lionel J. Milberger Abb Vetco Gray 53
#24 Randy C. Tolman ExxonMobil 53
#24 Keith J. Orgeron T&T Engineering Services 53
#27 Jeffrey C. Dawson Bj Services 52
#27 Douglas J. Patterson Baker Hughes Holdings 52
#29 Robert G. Lutz Shell Oil Compny 51
#30 Alexander Williams Rbw Studio 50
#31 James R. Birchak Halliburton Energy Services 49
#32 Charles S. Yeh ExxonMobil 48
#33 Balaji Natrajan HP 47
#34 Hai Ngoc Nguyen Hewlett Packard Enterprise 46
#35 Rabah S. Hamdi Dell Products 45
#35 Charles J. Stocker, IV IBM 45
#37 Jason E. Bryant Halliburton Energy Services 44
#38 Xu Huang The Procter & Gamble 43
#39 Thomas J. Flynn HP 42
#39 Hoang Van Le Northwestern University 42
#41 David E. Sherwood, Jr. Chevron 41
#41 Evan Lloyd Davies The Wellboss Company 41
#43 Christopher D. Bartlett 40
#44 Chi So HP 39
#44 John D. Macpherson Baker Hughes Holdings 39
#44 Frederick T. Tilton Weatherford/Lamb 39
#44 Phillip M. Jones Compaq Computer 39
#48 Edward C. Spatz Xr Lateral 38
#48 Kelly K. Smith HP 38
#48 Keith D. Underwood Intel 38

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