Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Plano, TX ranks #87 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 1,209 patents from 567 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Plano, TX include Samsung, Nxgen Partners Ip, Texas Instruments. That works out to 4.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 567 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Boon Loong Ng Samsung 30
2 Young-Han Nam Samsung 28
3 Solyman Ashrafi Nxgen Partners Ip 18
3 Madhukar Budagavi Texas Instruments 18
#5 Yi Song Blackberry Limited 17
#6 Yang Li Apple 14
#6 Patrick W. Bosshart Texas Instruments 14
#8 Neng Wang Qualcomm 13
#9 Margarita Khafizova Open Invention Network Llc Nc 12
#9 James N. Guichard Cisco 12
#9 Tadashi Ikeuchi Fujitsu Limited 12
#12 Bilal Sadiq Qualcomm 11
#12 Md. Saifur Rahman 11
#14 Jean-Marc Lopez Halliburton Energy Services 10
#14 Anand G. Dabak Texas Instruments 10
#16 Heping Dai Futurewei Technologies 9
#16 Monica Rose Martino Open Invention Network Llc Nc 9
#18 Ariton E. Xhafa Texas Instruments 8
#18 William C. Fang Enseo 8
#18 Sudipto Chakraborty Texas Instruments 8
#21 Ralf Bendlin AT&T 7
#21 Thomas R. Miller Enseo 7
#21 Jonathan Almeria Noquil Texas Instruments 7
#24 Akram A. Salman Texas Instruments 6
#24 Farid Khafizov Open Invention Network Llc Nc 6
#24 Olga Vassilieva Fujitsu Limited 6
#24 Manoj Mehrotra Texas Instruments 6
#24 Ni Zhu Retractable Technologies 6
#24 John J. Sallas Cgg Services Sas 6
#24 Brian Dean Owens Treble Innovations 6
#24 Hang Jin Cisco 6
#32 Vahram Mouradian Sensogram Technologies 5
#32 Daniel A. Castillo Lennox Industries 5
#32 Anthony C. K. Soong Huawei 5
#32 Shadi Abu-Surra Samsung 5
#32 Wayne T. Chen Triune Systems 5
#32 Sunil K. Khiani Lennox Industries 5
#32 Amir Ansari Kip Prod P1 Lp 5
#32 Viju Kothuvatiparambil Bank of America 5
#32 Robert W. Peterson Open Invention Network Llc Nc 5
#32 Venkata Siva N. Amulothu IBM 5
#32 Robert B. Uselton Lennox Industries 5
#32 Young Lee Futurewei Technologies 5
#32 Jin-Meng Ho Texas Instruments 5
#32 Sridhar Rajagopal Samsung 5
#32 Ramprakash Masina Kip Prod P1 Lp 5
#32 Guru Mathur Texas Instruments 5
#32 Jan Veit Halliburton Energy Services 5
#49 Tiehong Wang Virginia Innovation Sciences 4
#49 Thomas Michael Kawamura Traxxas 4

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