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Tessera
— 855 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#998
of
105,732
Top 1%
271
inventors
855
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 70 patents in 2001.
peak 70
1996: 10 patents
1996
1997: 15 patents
1998: 21 patents
1999: 31 patents
1999
2000: 36 patents
2001: 70 patents
2002: 49 patents
2002
2003: 31 patents
2004: 33 patents
2005: 31 patents
2005
2006: 21 patents
2007: 28 patents
2008: 20 patents
2008
2009: 20 patents
2010: 27 patents
2011: 28 patents
2011
2012: 22 patents
2013: 59 patents
2014: 59 patents
2014
2015: 46 patents
2016: 33 patents
2017: 25 patents
2017
2018: 11 patents
2019: 4 patents
2020: 40 patents
2020
2021: 25 patents
2022: 18 patents
2023: 21 patents
2023
2024: 10 patents
2025: 1 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Tessera
All Time
Showing
51–100
of
271
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
#45
Stuart E. Wilson
9
#45
Takeshi Nogami
9
#45
Tomoyuki Kikuchi
9
#54
Andrew M. Greene
8
#54
Brian Marcucci
8
#54
Daniel C. Edelstein
8
#54
Gaetan L. Mathieu
8
#54
Joe Lee
8
#54
John Riley
8
#54
Kurt Raab
8
#54
Vernon Solberg
8
#62
Andrey Grinman
7
#62
Balasubramanian Pranatharthiharan
7
#62
Charles Rosenstein
7
#62
Charles G. Woychik
7
#62
Chih-Chao Yang
7
#62
Elbert E. Huang
7
#62
Gaetan Mathiew
7
#62
Hosadurga Shobha
7
#62
James Zaccardi
7
#62
Juntao Li
7
#62
Michael J. Nystrom
7
#62
Nelson Felix
7
#62
Nels Jewell-Larsen
7
#62
Rajasekhar Venigalla
7
#62
Ronald Green
7
#62
Sean D. Burns
7
#62
Sivananda K. Kanakasabapathy
7
#62
Veeraraghavan S. Basker
7
#80
A. Christian Walton
6
#80
Andy Stavros
6
#80
Chi-Chun Liu
6
#80
Huai Huang
6
#80
Jason Sweis
6
#80
Jesse Thompson
6
#80
John R. Sporre
6
#80
Michael Rizzolo
6
#80
Tony Faraci
6
#80
Yann Mignot
6
#80
Yoshikuni Nakadaira
6
#80
Yongan Xu
6
#92
Chok J. Chia
5
#92
Hung-Ming Wang
5
#92
John Grange
5
#92
Joseph Link
5
#92
Kenneth B. Gilleo
5
#92
Nicole Saulnier
5
#92
Qwai H. Low
5
#92
Son V. Nguyen
5
#92
Sridhar Krishnan
5
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