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Plano, TX 2017

1,286 patents  ·  608 inventors  ·  4.5/1k pop.

Ranked #84 of 42,209 cities Top 1%

Plano, TX ranks #84 worldwide for total patents filed in 2017, with 1,286 patents from 608 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Plano, TX include Texas Instruments, Samsung, Blackberry Limited. That works out to 4.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 608 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Anand G. Dabak Texas Instruments 24
2 Boon Loong Ng Samsung 21
3 Young-Han Nam Samsung 20
#4 Yi Song Blackberry Limited 16
#5 Runhua Chen Texas Instruments 15
#6 John J. Sallas Cgg Services Sas 13
#6 Sudipto Chakraborty Texas Instruments 13
#6 Yang Li Apple 13
#9 Madhukar Budagavi Texas Instruments 12
#9 James N. Guichard Cisco 12
#11 Solyman Ashrafi Nxgen Partners Ip 11
#11 Anthony C. K. Soong Huawei 11
#13 Jean-Marc Lopez Halliburton Energy Services 10
#13 Wayne T. Chen Triune Systems 10
#13 George M. Higa Verizon 10
#16 Thomas R. Miller Enseo 9
#16 Margarita Khafizova Open Invention Network Llc Nc 9
#16 Ariton E. Xhafa Texas Instruments 9
#19 Monica Rose Martino Open Invention Network Llc Nc 8
#19 William C. Fang Enseo 8
#19 Marie Denison Texas Instruments 8
#19 Donald G. Kyle Halliburton Energy Services 8
#19 Akram A. Salman Texas Instruments 8
#19 Jin-Meng Ho Texas Instruments 8
#19 Heping Dai Futurewei Technologies 8
#19 Robert W. Peterson Open Invention Network Llc Nc 8
#19 Christopher Kim August Home 8
#19 Md. Saifur Rahman — 8
#29 Jonathan Almeria Noquil Texas Instruments 7
#29 Farid Khafizov Open Invention Network Llc Nc 7
#29 Amid I. Hashim Commscope, Inc. Of North Carolina 7
#29 Timothy J. Wall Rug Doctor 7
#29 Olga Vassilieva Fujitsu Limited 7
#29 Tarak A. Railkar Qorvo Us 7
#35 Ralf Bendlin AT&T 6
#35 Neng Wang Qualcomm 6
#35 Jeffry Kelber University Of North Texas 6
#35 Patrick W. Bosshart Texas Instruments 6
#35 Hang Jin Cisco 6
#35 John Mampra Mathew PepsiCo 6
#35 Byron Lovell Williams Texas Instruments 6
#35 Sajjad A. Khan Texas Instruments 6
#35 Devaki Chandramouli Nokia Technologies Oy 6
#44 Changhoi Koo Blackberry Limited 5
#44 Linda Dunbar Futurewei Technologies 5
#44 Sevugan Palaniappan Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. 5
#44 Ann Marie Morrow Rug Doctor 5
#44 Robert B. Uselton Lennox Industries 5
#44 Yuming Zhu Texas Instruments 5
#44 Hongyan Lei AT&T 5

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