IFI CLAIMS 2012 Top 50 US Patent Assignees
Rankings were compiled using the USPTO source-data by current company or assignee name on file at the USPTO. IFI uses a rigorous name standardization process to improve the accuracy of our data and portfolio counts for over 5800 patent assignees.
Be sure to look at the patent portfolio snapshot links below.
| Rank | Grants | Assignee Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6,478 | International Business Machines Corp |
| 2 | 5,081 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd KR |
| 3 | 3,174 | Canon K K JP |
| 4 | 3,032 | Sony Corp JP |
| 5 | 2,769 | Panasonic Corp JP |
| 6 | 2,613 | Microsoft Corp |
| 7 | 2,447 | Toshiba Corp JP |
| 8 | 2,013 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd TW |
| 9 | 1,652 | General Electric Co |
| 10 | 1,624 | LG Electronics Inc KR |
| 11 | 1,535 | Fujitsu Ltd JP |
| 12 | 1,461 | Seiko Epson Corp JP |
| 13 | 1,436 | Hitachi Ltd JP |
| 14 | 1,410 | Ricoh Co Ltd JP |
| 15 | 1,394 | Hewlett-Packard Development Co L P |
| 16 | 1,377 | GM Global Technology Operations LLC |
| 17 | 1,292 | QUALCOMM Inc |
| 18 | 1,290 | Intel Corp |
| 19 | 1,285 | Toyota Jidosha K K JP |
| 20 | 1,157 | Broadcom Corp |
| 21 | 1,151 | Google Inc |
| 22 | 1,136 | Apple Inc |
| 23 | 1,132 | Honda Motor Co Ltd JP |
| 24 | 1,118 | Sharp K K JP |
| 25 | 1,050 | Xerox Corp |
| 26 | 1,039 | Renesas Electronics Corp JP |
| 27 | 1,033 | Fujifilm Corp JP |
| 28 | 1,012 | Brother Kogyo K K JP |
| 29 | 986 | Research In Motion Ltd CA |
| 30 | 977 | Siemens AG DE |
| 31 | 951 | Cisco Technology Inc |
| 32 | 913 | Micron Technology Inc |
| 33 | 886 | AT&T Intellectual Property I L P |
| 34 | 861 | Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co Ltd JP |
| 35 | 843 | Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson SE |
| 36 | 830 | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N V NL |
| 37 | 829 | Texas Instruments Inc |
| 38 | 823 | NEC Corp JP |
| 39 | 815 | Honeywell International Inc |
| 40 | 782 | Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co Ltd CN |
| 41 | 765 | Denso Corp JP |
| 42 | 748 | Bosch, Robert GmbH DE |
| 43 | 747 | SK Hynix Inc KR |
| 44 | 696 | Mitsubishi Denki K K JP |
| 45 | 686 | Fuji Xerox Co Ltd JP |
| 46 | 673 | Boeing Co The |
| 47 | 664 | Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute KR |
| 48 | 650 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co TW |
| 49 | 636 | Alcatel-Lucent FR |
| 50 | 626 | LG Display Co Ltd KR |
