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Tessera — 855 Patents

Rank (All Time): #998 of 105,732Top 1%
271 inventors
855 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 70 patents in 2001.peak 701996: 10 patents19961997: 15 patents1998: 21 patents1999: 31 patents19992000: 36 patents2001: 70 patents2002: 49 patents20022003: 31 patents2004: 33 patents2005: 31 patents20052006: 21 patents2007: 28 patents2008: 20 patents20082009: 20 patents2010: 27 patents2011: 28 patents20112012: 22 patents2013: 59 patents2014: 59 patents20142015: 46 patents2016: 33 patents2017: 25 patents20172018: 11 patents2019: 4 patents2020: 40 patents20202021: 25 patents2022: 18 patents2023: 21 patents20232024: 10 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Top Inventors at Tessera All Time

Showing 51–100 of 271 inventors

RankNamePatents
#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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