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Plano, TX 2016

1,263 patents  ·  590 inventors  ·  4.4/1k pop.

Ranked #74 of 41,021 cities Top 1%

Plano, TX ranks #74 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 1,263 patents from 590 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Plano, TX include Blackberry Limited, Texas Instruments, Samsung. That works out to 4.4 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 590 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Yi Song Blackberry Limited 27
2 Anand G. Dabak Texas Instruments 21
3 Young-Han Nam Samsung 19
#4 Boon Loong Ng Samsung 18
#5 Margarita Khafizova Open Invention Network Llc Nc 15
#6 James N. Guichard Cisco 13
#7 Farid Khafizov Open Invention Network Llc Nc 12
#7 Navzer Engineer University Of Texas System 12
#9 Heping Dai Futurewei Technologies 11
#9 Frank Arko Crux Biomedical 11
#9 David Michael Pierce University Of Texas System 11
#12 Runhua Chen Texas Instruments 10
#12 Jin-Meng Ho Texas Instruments 10
#12 Marie Denison Texas Instruments 10
#15 Young Lee Futurewei Technologies 9
#15 Sudipto Chakraborty Texas Instruments 9
#15 Jean-Marc Lopez Halliburton Energy Services 9
#18 Wayne T. Chen Triune Systems 8
#18 Hideaki Kawahara Texas Instruments 8
#18 Bradley Allen Kramer Texas Instruments 8
#18 Monica Rose Martino Open Invention Network Llc Nc 8
#18 Neng Wang Qualcomm 8
#18 Ni Zhu Retractable Technologies 8
#18 Ke-Chi Jang Ericsson 8
#18 Olga Vassilieva Fujitsu Limited 8
#26 Manoj Mehrotra Texas Instruments 7
#26 Solyman Ashrafi Nxgen Partners Ip 7
#26 Ram Viswanathan IBM 7
#26 Daniel Wu Texas Instruments 7
#26 Madhukar Budagavi Texas Instruments 7
#31 Donald G. Kyle Halliburton Energy Services 6
#31 Patrick W. Bosshart Texas Instruments 6
#31 Jonathan Almeria Noquil Texas Instruments 6
#31 Daniel Collins Jasper Technologies 6
#31 Akram A. Salman Texas Instruments 6
#31 Yang Li Apple 6
#31 Shadi Abu-Surra Samsung 6
#31 Amitava Chatterjee Texas Instruments 6
#31 Ralf Bendlin AT&T 6
#31 Robert W. Peterson Open Invention Network Llc Nc 6
#31 Steven Craig Bartling Texas Instruments 6
#31 Raghothama Reddy GE 6
#43 Sridhar Rajagopal Samsung 5
#43 Tiehong Wang Virginia Innovation Sciences 5
#43 Byron Lovell Williams Texas Instruments 5
#43 Haowen Bu Texas Instruments 5
#43 Abbas Ali Texas Instruments 5
#43 Amid I. Hashim Commscope, Inc. Of North Carolina 5
#43 Douglas N. Laube Amx 5
#43 John J. Sallas Cgg Services Sas 5

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