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1994
Ranked by patent count
Showing 1–50 of 12,641 companies
Rank
Company
Patents
1
IBM
1,363
2
Unknown
1,193
3
Canon
1,180
#4
Fujitsu Limited
1,174
#5
Mitsubishi Electric
1,065
#6
Sumitomo Electric Industries
1,045
#7
Hitachi
1,045
#8
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
1,016
#9
GE
1,006
#10
Motorola
959
#11
Nec
923
#12
Eastman Kodak
900
#13
Sony
815
#14
AT&T
623
#15
Xerox
616
#16
ExxonMobil
567
#17
3M
544
#18
US Air Force
520
#19
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
507
#20
E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And
496
#21
Texas Instruments
495
#22
Samsung
483
#24
U.S. Philips
431
#25
Hughes Aircraft
414
#26
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
383
#27
Basf Se
381
#28
Ford
361
#29
Bayer Healthcare
347
#30
General Motors
336
#31
Hoechst Gmbh
334
#32
Ricoh Company
318
#33
Robert Bosch Gmbh
317
#34
Ciba-Geigy
304
#35
RTX (Raytheon)
280
#36
Digital Equipment
278
#37
Alliedsignal
274
#38
The Dow Chemical
272
#39
Westinghouse Electric
262
#40
Merck
255
#41
Intel
254
#42
Honda Motor Co.
247
#43
Olympus Optical Co.
239
#44
Shell Oil Compny
238
#45
Konica
231
#46
The Procter & Gamble
212
#47
Pentax
203
#48
US Army
197
#49
Chevron
195
#50
Whitaker &
194
#51
Micron
190
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