Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Tomball, TX ranks #816 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 4,128 patents from 577 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Tomball, TX include ExxonMobil, Baker Hughes, A Ge Company, HP. That works out to 334.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 577 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Michael C. Romer ExxonMobil 85
2 YingQing Xu Baker Hughes, A Ge Company 79
2 Earl W. Moore HP 79
#4 Dingding Chen Halliburton Energy Services 70
#5 James L. Overstreet Baker Hughes Holdings 68
#6 Michael D. Johnson Becton, Dickinson And 66
#6 Joseph R. Allen HP 66
#8 Clark E. Robison Weatherford Technology Holdings 65
#9 Theodore F. Emerson HP 64
#10 Mark S. Tracy HP 63
#11 Harold Grayson Walters Halliburton Energy Services 62
#12 Philip M. Snider Geodynamics 61
#13 Charles E. Jennings Vetco Gray 60
#14 Jeffrey A. Lev HP 57
#15 David F. Heinrich Hewlett Packard Enterprise 49
#16 Loyd East Halliburton Energy Services 45
#17 Kent E. Biggs HP 44
#17 Mark A. Piwonka HP 44
#19 Memphis-Zhihong Yin HP 43
#19 Alan L. Goodrum Compaq Computer 43
#19 Belgie B. McClelland HP 43
#22 Aaron John Avagliano GE 40
#22 Duke VanLue Downhole Technology 40
#24 David A. Moore HP 39
#24 Scott Johnson Ansys 39
#26 Andrew Brooks Rite-Hite Holding 36
#26 Richard YingQing Xu Baker Hughes Holdings 36
#28 Lester Crudele Spin Memory 35
#29 Robert P. Darbe Halliburton Energy Services 34
#29 Thomas E. Cook IBM 34
#31 Michael T. Hecker ExxonMobil 33
#31 Michael R. Durham HP 33
#33 Charles David Armstrong Baker Hughes Holdings 31
#33 Anand Prakash Halliburton Energy Services 31
#35 Robert A. Estes Baker Hughes Holdings 30
#35 E. David Neufeld Compaq Computer 30
#37 Mark Lawrence Hunt GE 29
#37 James Randolph Lovorn Halliburton Energy Services 29
#37 Brian L. Anderson Lawrence Livermore National Security 29
#40 Todd Ryan Kabrich Caterpillar 28
#40 Ryan Ward G&H Diversified Manufacturing Lp 28
#42 Louis B. Hobson HP 27
#43 Grahame N. Taylor Baker Hughes Holdings 24
#44 Xueyu Pang Halliburton Energy Services 22
#45 Lam Arthur Campbell GE 21
#45 Wilfred Provost Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations 21
#45 Joseph F. Donovan Baker Hughes Holdings 21
#45 Brian T. Purcell Hewlett Packard Enterprise 21
#49 David W. Sherrod HP 20
#49 James R. Howard Zycon 20

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