2019 Top 50 US Patent Assignees
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Organization
2019 Grants
2018 Grants
% Change
Rank Change
1
International Business Machines Corp
9,262
9,100
2
0
2
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
6,469
5,850
11
0
3
Canon Inc
3,548
3,056
16
0
4
Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC
3,081
2,353
31
3
5
Intel Corp
3,020
2,735
10
-1
6
LG Electronics Inc
2,805
2,474
14
-1
7
Apple Inc
2,490
2,160
15
2
8
Ford Global Technologies LLC
2,468
2,123
16
2
9
Amazon Technologies Inc
2,427
2,035
19
3
10
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
2,418
1,680
44
6
11
Qualcomm Inc
2,348
2,300
2
-3
12
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co TSMC Ltd
2,331
2,465
-5
-6
13
BOE Technology Group Co Ltd
2,177
1,634
33
4
14
Sony Corp
2,142
1,688
27
1
15
Google LLC
2,102
2,070
2
-4
16
Toyota Motor Corp
2,034
1,959
4
-3
17
Samsung Display Co Ltd
1,946
1,948
0
-3
18
General Electric Co
1,818
1,597
14
0
19
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson AB
1,607
1,353
19
1
20
Hyundai Motor Co
1,504
1,369
10
-1
21
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co Ltd
1,387
1,254
11
1
22
Boeing Co
1,383
1,227
13
1
23
Seiko Epson Corp
1,345
1,285
5
-2
24
GM Global Technology Operations LLC
1,285
1,046
23
3
25
Micron Technology Inc
1,268
924
37
9
26
United Technologies Corp
1,252
1,011
24
4
27
Mitsubishi Electric Corp
1,244
1,106
13
-2
28
Toshiba Corp
1,170
1,104
6
-2
29
AT&T Intellectual Property I LP
1,158
985
18
3
30
Robert Bosch GmbH
1,107
1,136
-3
-6
31
Honda Motor Co Ltd
1,080
926
17
2
32
Denso Corp
1,052
1,003
5
-1
33
Cisco Technology Inc
1,050
848
24
4
34
Halliburton Energy Services Inc
1,020
807
26
5
35
Fujitsu Ltd
1,008
1,038
-3
-6
36
Facebook Inc
989
602
64
22
37
Ricoh Co Ltd
980
1,043
-6
-9
38
Koninklijke Philips NV
973
844
15
0
39
EMC IP Holding Co LLC
926
801
16
1
40
NEC Corp
923
715
29
5
41
Kia Motors Corp
921
349
164
55
42
Texas Instruments Inc
894
785
14
0
43
LG Display Co Ltd
865
681
27
5
44
Oracle International Corp
847
685
24
3
45
Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd
842
743
13
-1
46
Sharp Corp
819
643
27
5
47
SK Hynix Inc
798
801
0
-6
48
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
794
428
86
28
49
Fujifilm Corp
791
658
21
1
50
LG Chem Ltd
791
621
28
4