Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025
372,280 Patents 2024
561,600 Inventors
29,041 Companies

Top Inventors 2024

RankNamePatentsCompany
1 Tao Luo 857 Qualcomm
2 Junyi Li 492 Qualcomm
3 Xiaoxia Zhang 410 Qualcomm
#4 Dawei Zhang 387 Apple
#5 Peter Gaal 351 Qualcomm
#6 Jing Sun 347 Qualcomm
#7 Esmael Hejazi Dinan 347 Ofinno
#8 Shan Liu 323 Tencent America
#9 Frederick E. Shelton, IV 323 Johnson & Johnson
#10 Yushu Zhang 302 Apple

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Top Companies 2024

RankCompanyPatents
1 Samsung 10,188
2 LG 4,588
3 TSMC 3,985
#4 Apple 3,665
#5 Qualcomm 3,439
#6 Huawei 3,342
#7 IBM 2,759
#8 Google 2,657
#9 Canon 2,637
#10 Sony 2,476

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Top Cities 2024

RankCityPatents
1 Tokyo, JP 28,253
#6 Seoul, KR 21,202
#7 San Diego, CA 19,371
#8 Beijing, CN 17,690
#16 San Jose, CA 17,191
#17 San Francisco, CA 16,570
#18 Suwon-si, KR 14,146
#24 Yokohama, JP 12,530
#29 Hsinchu, TW 9,436
#35 Lo Wu, CN 9,328

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