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Computing and AI Patent Leaders in 2016 2016

Primary CPC class G06 · Section G

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

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 56,025 patents in 2020.peak 56,0251996: 5,951 patents19961997: 6,238 patents1998: 10,276 patents1999: 10,538 patents19992000: 10,246 patents2001: 10,784 patents2002: 10,982 patents20022003: 11,922 patents2004: 12,914 patents2005: 12,305 patents20052006: 17,935 patents2007: 16,366 patents2008: 18,424 patents20082009: 20,753 patents2010: 28,116 patents2011: 28,643 patents20112012: 35,055 patents2013: 40,006 patents2014: 43,648 patents20142015: 42,065 patents2016: 42,785 patents2017: 43,497 patents20172018: 41,876 patents2019: 53,356 patents2020: 56,025 patents20202021: 55,883 patents2022: 55,530 patents2023: 54,558 patents20232024: 54,223 patents2025: 52,894 patents2025

Top Inventors

Rank ↑ Inventor ↕ Patents ↕ Primary Company ↕
1 Michael K. Gschwind 164 IBM
2 Chung-Lung K. Shum 77 IBM
3 Valentina Salapura 74 IBM
#4 Timothy J. Slegel 71 IBM
#5 Christian Jacobi 60 IBM
#6 Lokesh M. Gupta 54 IBM
#7 Michael T. Benhase 53 IBM
#8 Jason K. Resch 52 IBM
#9 Michael Tsirkin 51 IBM
#10 Dan F. Greiner 49 IBM
#11 Fadi Y. Busaba 46 IBM
#12 Eric M. Schwarz 45 IBM
#13 Jean-Pierre Bono 39 Emc Ip Holding Company
#14 Maged M. Michael 38 IBM
#15 Charles W. Gainey, Jr. 37 IBM
#16 John M. Santosuosso 36 IBM
#17 Charles J. Archer 35 IBM
#18 Guy L. Guthrie 35 IBM
#19 James E. Carey 35 IBM
#20 Jonathan D. Bradbury 35 IBM
#21 Koichiro Yamashita 35 Fujitsu Limited
#22 Michael J. Branson 35 IBM
#23 Rick A. Hamilton, II 35 IBM
#24 David C. Reed 34 IBM
#25 Hiromasa Yamauchi 34 Fujitsu Limited
#26 Omer Tripp 34 IBM
#27 Sandeep R. Patil 34 IBM
#28 Assaf Natanzon 33 Emc Ip Holding Company
#29 Brian R. Muras 32 IBM
#30 Brian R. Prasky 32 IBM
#31 Takahisa Suzuki 32 Fujitsu Limited
#32 Clifford A. Pickover 31 IBM
#33 Gary D. Cudak 31 —
#34 Gary W. Grube 31 Cleversafe
#35 Harold W. Cain, III 31 IBM
#36 Koji Kurihara 31 Fujitsu Limited
#37 Max D. Smith 31 IBM
#38 Robert W. Lord 31 The Invention Science Fund I
#39 Sarbajit K. Rakshit 31 IBM
#40 Imran Chaudhri 30 Apple
#41 Lisa Seacat DeLuca 30 Unstoppable Domains
#42 Clarence T. Tegreene 29 Intellectual Ventures
#43 Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall 29 —
#44 G. Glenn Henry 29 Via Technologies
#45 Wesley B. Leggette 29 IBM
#46 Ynjiun P. Wang 29 Hand Held Products
#47 Mark A. Malamud 28 The Invention Science Fund I
#48 Marcel Mitran 28 IBM
#49 Roderick A. Hyde 28 Intellectual Ventures
#50 Royce A. Levien 28 The Invention Science Fund I
#51 Timothy W. Markison 28 Cleversafe
#52 Andrew D. Baptist 27 IBM
#53 Ezekiel Kruglick 27 Empire Technology Development
#54 Robert Valentine 27 Intel
#55 Frederick A. Ware 26 Rambus
#56 Lowell L. Wood, JR. 26 The Invention Science Fund I
#57 Stephen Latta 26 Microsoft
#58 Dharmendra S. Modha 25 IBM
#59 Greg R. Dhuse 25 IBM
#60 James R. Kraemer 25 IBM
#61 Sanjiv Sirpal 25 Z124
#62 Gregory J. Boss 24 Globalfoundries
#63 Jason T. Griffin 24 Research In Motion Limited
#64 Patrick J. O'Sullivan 24 IBM
#65 Philip J. Sanders 24 IBM
#66 Robert A. Shearer 24 IBM
#67 Derek E. Williams 23 IBM
#68 Ming-Tsan Kao 23 Disney
#69 Wayne Carl Westerman 23 Apple
#70 Alper Buyuktosunoglu 22 IBM
#71 Brian M. O'Connell 22 IBM
#72 Brian E. Smith 22 IBM
#73 David M. Grigg 22 Bank of America
#74 Earl T. Cohen 22 Seagate Technology
#75 Hans M. Jacobson 22 IBM
#76 John Hayes 22 Pure Storage
#77 Michael David Marr 22 Amazon
#78 Paul E. Schardt 22 IBM
#79 Philippe Armangau 22 Emc Ip Holding Company
#80 Robert R. Friedlander 22 IBM
#81 Adam J. Muff 21 IBM
#82 Donald W. Schmidt 21 IBM
#83 Jihwan Kim 21 LG
#84 Mark S. Farrell 21 IBM
#85 Matthew J. Kalos 21 IBM
#86 Tomas G. Akenine-Moller 21 Intel
#87 Bas Ording 20 Apple
#88 Gavin J. Stark 20 Netronome Systems
#89 James J. Bonanno 20 IBM
#90 Joseph Kurth Reynolds 20 Synaptics Incorporated
#91 John D. Rinaldo, JR. 20 The Invention Science Fund I
#92 Mohan J. Kumar 20 Intel
#93 Philip Shilane 20 Emc Ip Holding Company
#94 Steven P. Hotelling 20 Apple
#95 Vincent J. Zimmer 20 Intel
#96 William J. Starke 20 IBM
#97 Alex Aben-Athar Kipman 19 Microsoft
#98 Bin Cao 19 IBM
#99 Christopher J. Dawson 19 IBM
#100 Edward K.Y. Jung 19 The Invention Science Fund I

Top Companies

Rank ↑ Company ↕ Patents ↕
1 IBM 4,883
2 Microsoft 1,617
3 Google 1,534
#4 Intel 1,336
#5 Samsung 1,263
#6 Amazon 827
#7 Apple 826
#8 Canon 585
#9 Fujitsu Limited 537
#10 Sony 533
#11 Emc 523
#12 Oracle 499
#13 Broadcom 460
#14 Qualcomm 455
#15 Sap Se 412
#16 NVIDIA 339
#17 LG 338
#18 Disney 324
#19 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 281
#20 Ricoh Company 274
#21 Dell Products 261
#22 Meta 255
#23 Adobe 254
#24 AMD 243
#25 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 232
#26 Nec 220
#27 Hitachi 216
#28 Blackberry Limited 214
#29 HP 211
#30 Netapp 206
#31 Globalfoundries 204
#32 Panasonic 202
#33 Bank of America 198
#34 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 194
#35 AT&T 189
#36 Huawei 189
#37 Xerox 185
#38 Salesforce 171
#39 Nokia Technologies Oy 169
#40 Tencent 154
#41 Sandisk Technologies 152
#42 Ebay 142
#43 Freeescale Semiconductor 141
#44 Yahoo Holdings 141
#45 Unknown 140
#46 Micron 140
#47 Wistron 135
#48 Ca 130
#49 Seagate Technology 129
#50 Fujifilm Business Innovation 126
#51 Cisco 126
#52 Verizon 117
#53 Kyocera Document Solutions 116
#54 KAIST 115
#55 Seiko Epson 113
#56 TSMC 113
#57 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 110
#58 GE 108
#59 PayPal 106
#60 Empire Technology Development 104
#61 Foxconn 104
#62 Accenture Global Services Limited 101
#63 Brother Kogyo 101
#64 Texas Instruments 100
#65 The Mathworks 98
#66 Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 97
#67 Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. 95
#68 Japan Display 93
#69 The Boeing 90
#70 Atmel 85
#71 Lenovo (Beijing) Limited 85
#72 Synaptics Incorporated 81
#73 Honeywell 81
#74 Kyocera 80
#75 Sk Hynix 78
#76 Veritas Technologies 78
#77 Synopsys 75
#78 Cadence Design Systems 73
#79 Ericsson 73
#80 Western Digital Technologies 73
#81 Open Invention Network Llc Nc 71
#82 BOE 71
#83 Alibaba 67
#84 Renesas Electronics 67
#85 Citrix Systems 66
#86 Commvault Systems 66
#87 Fujifilm 64
#88 Hand Held Products 64
#89 Thomson Licensing 64
#90 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 62
#91 Visa 61
#92 Htc 60
#93 Walmart Apollo 58
#94 Alcatel Lucent 57
#95 Rakuten Group 56
#96 Emc Ip Holding Company 55
#97 Konica Minolta 55
#98 Mastercard 55
#99 Beijing Lenovo Software 54
#100 Mitsubishi Electric 54