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Computing and AI Patent Leaders in 2018 2018

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 107 IBM
2 Jason K. Resch 101 IBM
3 Michael Tsirkin 77 IBM
#4 John M. Santosuosso 55 IBM
#5 Assaf Natanzon 54 Emc Ip Holding Company
#6 Sarbajit K. Rakshit 51 IBM
#7 Timothy J. Slegel 50 IBM
#8 Valentina Salapura 50 IBM
#9 Greg R. Dhuse 49 IBM
#10 Chung-Lung K. Shum 46 IBM
#11 Haisheng Wang 45 BOE
#12 Andrew D. Baptist 44 IBM
#13 Shengji Yang 44 BOE
#14 Yingming Liu 44 BOE
#15 Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez 43 —
#16 Xue Dong 43 BOE
#17 Corville O. Allen 40 IBM
#18 G. Glenn Henry 40 Via Technologies
#19 Paul R. Bastide 40 IBM
#20 Clifford A. Pickover 39 IBM
#21 Dung Q. Nguyen 39 IBM
#22 Imran Chaudhri 39 Apple
#23 Robert Valentine 39 Intel
#24 Eric M. Schwarz 38 IBM
#25 Wesley B. Leggette 38 IBM
#26 David C. Reed 37 IBM
#27 Lokesh M. Gupta 37 IBM
#28 Brian R. Muras 36 IBM
#29 Hayato Kurasawa 35 Japan Display
#30 Ilya Volvovski 35 IBM
#31 John M. Ganci, Jr. 35 IBM
#32 James E. Carey 34 IBM
#33 Danny A. Grant 33 Immersion
#34 Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall 33 —
#35 James E. Bostick 33 Kyndryl
#36 Eric L. Barsness 31 IBM
#37 Koji Ishizaki 31 Japan Display
#38 Michael J. Branson 31 IBM
#39 Xiaochuan Chen 31 BOE
#40 Matthew J. Kalos 30 IBM
#41 Xiaoliang Ding 30 BOE
#42 Manish Motwani 29 IBM
#43 Omer Tripp 29 IBM
#44 Rafal P. Konik 29 IBM
#45 Russell Speight VanBlon 29 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.
#46 Daniel F. Moertl 28 IBM
#47 Roger A. Mittelstadt 28 IBM
#48 Adrian C. Gerhard 27 IBM
#49 Dan F. Greiner 27 IBM
#50 Eli M. Dow 27 IBM
#51 Koji Noguchi 27 Japan Display
#52 Liam Harpur 27 IBM
#53 Rick A. Hamilton, II 27 IBM
#54 Sundeep Chadha 27 IBM
#55 Vinodh Gopal 27 Intel
#56 Weijie Zhao 27 Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co.
#57 Colin Eddy 26 Via Alliance Semiconductor Co.
#58 Hiroshi Mizuhashi 26 Japan Display
#59 Jonathan D. Bradbury 26 IBM
#60 Kevin J. Ash 26 IBM
#61 Lisa Seacat DeLuca 26 Unstoppable Domains
#62 Philippe Armangau 26 Emc Ip Holding Company
#63 Vincent Levesque 26 Immersion
#64 Christian Jacobi 25 IBM
#65 Joseph Kurth Reynolds 25 Synaptics Incorporated
#66 Max D. Smith 25 IBM
#67 Robert E. Loredo 25 IBM
#68 Sandeep R. Patil 25 IBM
#69 Tohru Hasegawa 25 IBM
#70 Brian E. Bakke 24 IBM
#71 Deeder M. Aurongzeb 24 Dell Products
#72 Guy L. Guthrie 24 IBM
#73 Hsiang-Yu LEE 24 Superc-Touch
#74 James R. Kozloski 24 IBM
#75 Brian M. O'Connell 23 IBM
#76 Dharmendra S. Modha 23 IBM
#77 Itzhack Goldberg 23 IBM
#78 Jean-Pierre Bono 23 Emc Ip Holding Company
#79 Matthew E. Broomhall 23 IBM
#80 Petr Shepelev 23 Synaptics Incorporated
#81 Al Chakra 22 IBM
#82 Andrew R. Freed 22 IBM
#83 Brian Mark Fields 22 State Farm
#84 Gerard M. Col 22 Via Alliance Semiconductor Co.
#85 Gregory E. McBride 22 IBM
#86 Joseph W. Cropper 22 IBM
#87 Serguei M. Beloussov 22 Parallels International Gmbh
#88 Sorin Faibish 22 Emc Ip Holding Company
#89 Tomas G. Akenine-Moller 22 Intel
#90 Aaron J. Quirk 21 IBM
#91 Changfeng Li 21 BOE
#92 Donna K. Byron 21 IBM
#93 Fadi Y. Busaba 21 IBM
#94 Ivan Schreter 21 Sap Se
#95 James D. Guilford 21 Intel
#96 Jian Gao 21 Emc Ip Holding Company
#97 John M. Bent 21 Emc Ip Holding Company
#98 John Hayes 21 Pure Storage
#99 Lin Sun 21 IBM
#100 Ping-Tsun LIN 21 Superc-Touch

Top Companies

Rank ↑ Company ↕ Patents ↕
1 IBM 4,860
2 Samsung 1,493
3 Microsoft 1,341
#4 Intel 1,299
#5 Google 1,071
#6 Amazon 928
#7 Apple 779
#8 Emc Ip Holding Company 616
#9 Oracle 465
#10 Canon 453
#11 Sony 417
#12 Qualcomm 391
#13 Fujitsu Limited 365
#14 Meta 355
#15 LG 334
#16 Dell Products 328
#17 Sap Se 309
#18 Broadcom 292
#19 NVIDIA 276
#20 BOE 249
#21 Adobe 248
#22 Disney 213
#23 Huawei 209
#24 Cisco 202
#25 Ricoh Company 200
#26 AMD 196
#27 Sk Hynix 179
#28 AT&T 173
#29 Ebay 172
#30 Bank of America 171
#31 PayPal 169
#32 Toshiba Memory 167
#33 Sandisk Technologies 164
#34 Nec 161
#35 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 156
#36 Micron 153
#37 Tencent 151
#38 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 150
#39 Salesforce 146
#40 Panasonic 144
#41 Western Digital Technologies 138
#42 Capital One Services 137
#43 Synaptics Incorporated 136
#44 Hitachi 134
#45 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 133
#46 HP 128
#47 Japan Display 127
#48 Visa 124
#49 Mastercard 123
#50 Fujifilm Business Innovation 112
#51 Seiko Epson 111
#52 Ca 105
#53 Nokia Technologies Oy 105
#54 Excalibur Ip 101
#55 Inc Square, Co. 99
#56 State Farm 98
#57 Unknown 98
#58 Walmart Apollo 98
#59 The Boeing 95
#60 GE 95
#61 Immersion 93
#62 Intuit 92
#63 Seagate Technology 92
#64 KAIST 89
#65 Netapp 89
#66 Tianma Microelectronics Co. 87
#67 Nxp Usa 85
#68 Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 84
#69 Oath 83
#70 Sonos 81
#71 Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co. 80
#72 Kyocera Document Solutions 80
#73 Alibaba 79
#74 Lenovo (Beijing) Limited 77
#75 Commvault Systems 76
#76 Accenture Global Services Limited 75
#77 Blackberry Limited 75
#78 Cadence Design Systems 75
#79 Fujifilm 75
#80 Konica Minolta 74
#81 Verizon 74
#82 Palantir Technologies 72
#83 TSMC 71
#84 Mediatek 70
#85 Open Invention Network Llc Nc 70
#86 Texas Instruments 70
#87 Dropbox 68
#88 Veritas Technologies 67
#89 Xiaomi 67
#90 Via Alliance Semiconductor Co. 66
#91 Brother Kogyo 65
#92 Robert Bosch Gmbh 65
#93 Honeywell 65
#94 Tata Consultancy Services Limited 64
#95 Renesas Electronics 63
#96 Denso 62
#97 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 62
#98 Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha 61
#99 Wipro Limited 61
#100 Kyocera 60