Rankings count each patent once by its primary Cooperative Patent Classification. All-time pages aggregate the full database; year pages use patent grant year.
Recent years: 2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Patents per Year
Top Inventors
Top Companies
| Rank ↑ | Company ↕ | Patents ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IBM | 85,438 |
| 2 | Microsoft | 33,347 |
| 3 | Intel | 23,628 |
| #4 | Samsung | 23,152 |
| #5 | 17,308 | |
| #6 | Oracle | 15,102 |
| #7 | Apple | 13,866 |
| #8 | Canon | 13,202 |
| #9 | HP | 11,542 |
| #10 | Amazon | 11,089 |
| #11 | Sony | 10,825 |
| #12 | Fujitsu Limited | 10,581 |
| #13 | Hitachi | 10,120 |
| #14 | Dell Products | 7,516 |
| #15 | Broadcom | 7,278 |
| #16 | AMD | 7,258 |
| #17 | Micron | 6,910 |
| #18 | NVIDIA | 6,594 |
| #19 | Nec | 6,590 |
| #20 | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | 6,361 |
| #21 | Emc Ip Holding Company | 6,152 |
| #22 | Adobe | 5,435 |
| #23 | AT&T | 5,056 |
| #24 | Sap Se | 4,928 |
| #25 | LG | 4,723 |
| #26 | Qualcomm | 4,554 |
| #27 | Capital One Services | 4,516 |
| #28 | Meta | 4,406 |
| #29 | Ricoh Company | 4,317 |
| #30 | Huawei | 4,076 |
| #31 | Texas Instruments | 3,957 |
| #32 | Cisco | 3,949 |
| #33 | Disney | 3,892 |
| #34 | Bank of America | 3,863 |
| #35 | Emc | 3,791 |
| #36 | Xerox | 3,699 |
| #37 | Salesforce | 3,671 |
| #38 | Tencent | 3,550 |
| #39 | Sap Ag | 3,219 |
| #40 | Panasonic | 3,182 |
| #41 | Unknown | 3,064 |
| #42 | Seiko Epson | 3,045 |
| #43 | Fujifilm Business Innovation | 3,023 |
| #44 | BOE | 2,958 |
| #45 | GE | 2,822 |
| #46 | Foxconn | 2,734 |
| #47 | Sk Hynix | 2,660 |
| #48 | Netapp | 2,637 |
| #49 | Ebay | 2,561 |
| #50 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | 2,384 |
| #51 | Mitsubishi Electric | 2,380 |
| #52 | Visa | 2,290 |
| #53 | Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha | 2,169 |
| #54 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 2,167 |
| #55 | Sumitomo Electric Industries | 2,121 |
| #56 | Western Digital Technologies | 2,117 |
| #57 | Lsi | 2,065 |
| #58 | Cadence Design Systems | 2,055 |
| #59 | Motorola | 2,046 |
| #60 | Ncr | 2,042 |
| #61 | Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. | 2,018 |
| #62 | Mastercard | 1,997 |
| #63 | PayPal | 1,990 |
| #64 | Honeywell | 1,988 |
| #65 | Brother Kogyo | 1,983 |
| #66 | Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. | 1,974 |
| #67 | Toyota | 1,906 |
| #68 | Intuit | 1,885 |
| #69 | KAIST | 1,884 |
| #70 | USAA | 1,843 |
| #71 | Yahoo Holdings | 1,836 |
| #72 | Sandisk Technologies | 1,785 |
| #73 | Verizon | 1,742 |
| #74 | TSMC | 1,676 |
| #75 | Snap | 1,675 |
| #76 | Walmart Apollo | 1,664 |
| #77 | The Boeing | 1,650 |
| #78 | JPMorgan Chase | 1,616 |
| #79 | Synopsys | 1,597 |
| #80 | Blackberry Limited | 1,543 |
| #81 | Fujifilm | 1,484 |
| #82 | Stmicroelectronics Sa | 1,456 |
| #83 | Pure Storage | 1,449 |
| #84 | Alibaba | 1,429 |
| #85 | Unisys | 1,420 |
| #86 | State Farm | 1,345 |
| #87 | Symbol Technologies | 1,285 |
| #88 | Ericsson | 1,263 |
| #89 | Seagate Technology | 1,248 |
| #90 | Accenture Global Solutions Limited | 1,241 |
| #91 | Palantir Technologies | 1,235 |
| #92 | Compaq Computer | 1,232 |
| #93 | Kyocera Document Solutions | 1,218 |
| #94 | Commvault Systems | 1,207 |
| #95 | Robert Bosch Gmbh | 1,198 |
| #96 | Japan Display | 1,192 |
| #97 | American Express | 1,185 |
| #98 | Koniniklijke Philips N.V. | 1,158 |
| #99 | Digital Equipment | 1,129 |
| #100 | Eastman Kodak | 1,121 |