362,028
Patents 2021
548,734
Inventors
31,507
Companies

Top Inventors 2021

RankNamePatentsCompany
1 Frederick E. Shelton, IV 332 Johnson & Johnson
2 Tao Luo 326 Qualcomm
3 Kangguo Cheng 270 IBM
#4 Wanshi Chen 254 Qualcomm
#5 Peter Gaal 229 Qualcomm
#6 Junyi Li 218 Qualcomm
#7 Shan Liu 191 Tencent America
#8 Sarbajit K. Rakshit 187 IBM
#9 Jonathan P. Ive 187 Apple
#10 Kijun Kim 185 LG

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Top Companies 2021

RankCompanyPatents
1 Samsung 9,683
2 IBM 8,938
3 LG 4,746
#4 Canon 3,367
#5 Apple 3,122
#6 Intel 3,011
#7 Huawei 2,871
#8 TSMC 2,795
#9 Sony 2,683
#10 Toyota 2,661

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