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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

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 Jason K. Resch 170 IBM
2 Michael K. Gschwind 115 IBM
3 Greg R. Dhuse 81 IBM
#4 Abhishek R. Appu 79 Intel
#5 Joydeep Ray 76 Intel
#6 Altug Koker 75 Intel
#7 Andrew D. Baptist 75 IBM
#8 Haisheng Wang 75 BOE
#9 Sarbajit K. Rakshit 74 IBM
#10 Yingming Liu 73 BOE
#11 Wesley B. Leggette 70 IBM
#12 Michael Tsirkin 66 IBM
#13 Assaf Natanzon 64 Emc Ip Holding Company
#14 Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall 63
#15 Wooju Ryu 61 Stradvision
#16 Xue Dong 61 BOE
#17 Donghun Yeo 60 Stradvision
#18 Hojin Cho 60 Stradvision
#19 Hongmo Je 60 Stradvision
#20 Kyungjoong Jeong 60 Stradvision
#21 Myungchul Sung 60 Stradvision
#22 SukHoon Boo 60 Stradvision
#23 Taewoong Jang 60 Stradvision
#24 Yongjoong Kim 60 Stradvision
#25 Kye-Hyeon Kim 59 Stradvision
#26 Woonhyun Nam 59 Stradvision
#27 Xiaoliang Ding 59 BOE
#28 Hak-Kyoung Kim 58 Stradvision
#29 Insu Kim 58 Stradvision
#30 Joshua Edwards 56 Capital One Services
#31 Corville O. Allen 55 IBM
#32 Christian Jacobi 52 IBM
#33 Manish Motwani 51 IBM
#34 Balaji Vembu 50 Intel
#35 Imran Chaudhri 49 Apple
#36 Robert Valentine 49 Intel
#37 Ilya Volvovski 48 IBM
#38 Shengji Yang 48 BOE
#39 Valentina Salapura 48 IBM
#40 Hayato Kurasawa 46 Japan Display
#41 Lokesh M. Gupta 46 IBM
#42 Michael Mossoba 46 Capital One Services
#43 Ravi V. Khadiwala 46 IBM
#44 Changfeng Li 45 BOE
#45 John M. Santosuosso 45 IBM
#46 Clifford A. Pickover 44 IBM
#47 Kabir A. Barday 44 Onetrust
#48 Xiaochuan Chen 44 BOE
#49 Jian Gao 42 Emc Ip Holding Company
#50 Paul R. Bastide 42 IBM
#51 Jonathan D. Bradbury 41 IBM
#52 Timothy J. Slegel 41 IBM
#53 Chung-Lung K. Shum 40 IBM
#54 James E. Bostick 40 Kyndryl
#55 Jonathan Blake Brannon 39 Broadcom
#56 Austin Walters 38 Capital One Services
#57 Hiroshi Mizuhashi 38 Japan Display
#58 John M. Ganci, Jr. 38 IBM
#59 Stephen O. Lemay 38 Apple
#60 Wei Liu 38 BOE
#61 Adam Koeppel 37 Capital One Services
#62 Jeremy Goodsitt 37 Capital One Services
#63 Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez 37
#64 Serguei M. Beloussov 37 Parallels International Gmbh
#65 Danny A. Grant 36 Immersion
#66 G. Glenn Henry 36 Via Technologies
#67 Yibao Zhou 36 OPPO
#68 Weijie Zhao 35 Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co.
#69 James E. Carey 33 IBM
#70 James R. Kozloski 33 IBM
#71 Matthew G. Borlick 33 IBM
#72 Rui Xu 33 BOE
#73 Anthony Saporito 32 IBM
#74 Deeder M. Aurongzeb 32 Dell Products
#75 Liam Harpur 32 IBM
#76 Prasoonkumar Surti 32 Intel
#77 Vijay Ekambaram 32 IBM
#78 Krishnaram Kenthapadi 30 Microsoft
#79 Lisa Seacat DeLuca 30 Unstoppable Domains
#80 Nicholaus A. Jones 30 Walmart Apollo
#81 Dan F. Greiner 29 IBM
#82 Dung Q. Nguyen 29 IBM
#83 Jason L. Sabourin 29 Onetrust
#84 Koji Ishizaki 29 Japan Display
#85 Eric M. Schwarz 28 IBM
#86 Matthew E. Broomhall 28 IBM
#87 Silvia M. Mueller 28 IBM
#88 Xinlei Xu 28 Emc Ip Holding Company
#89 Brian R. Muras 27 IBM
#90 Chanaka G. Karunamuni 27 Apple
#91 David C. Reed 27 IBM
#92 Eric Jason Brandwine 27 Amazon
#93 Frederick A. Ware 27 Rambus
#94 James Zarakas 27 Capital One Services
#95 Matthew A. Jones 27 Walmart Apollo
#96 Mihir S. Karanjkar 27 Onetrust
#97 Nafea Bshara 27 Amazon
#98 Sanjiv Sirpal 27 Z124
#99 Abdelkadar M'Hamed Benkreira 26 Capital One Services
#100 Eric L. Barsness 26 IBM

Top Companies

Rank Company Patents
1 IBM 5,107
2 Microsoft 1,849
3 Samsung 1,762
#4 Intel 1,547
#5 Google 1,137
#6 Amazon 1,129
#7 Apple 874
#8 Emc Ip Holding Company 749
#9 Canon 640
#10 Oracle 627
#11 Meta 621
#12 Sony 517
#13 Sap Se 500
#14 Capital One Services 442
#15 LG 426
#16 Broadcom 416
#17 Fujitsu Limited 412
#18 Dell Products 396
#19 Adobe 376
#20 NVIDIA 341
#21 Qualcomm 335
#22 BOE 328
#23 Huawei 322
#24 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 304
#25 Salesforce 265
#26 AMD 263
#27 Cisco 256
#28 Bank of America 251
#29 Micron 241
#30 Nec 238
#31 Western Digital Technologies 232
#32 HP 220
#33 Ricoh Company 220
#34 Disney 212
#35 Walmart Apollo 209
#36 Sk Hynix 207
#37 Mastercard 206
#38 Ebay 199
#39 PayPal 198
#40 Japan Display 191
#41 Tencent 187
#42 Toshiba Memory 186
#43 Hitachi 181
#44 Panasonic 178
#45 AT&T 176
#46 Visa 173
#47 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 164
#48 Cadence Design Systems 163
#49 Pure Storage 160
#50 Unknown 154
#51 Alibaba 143
#52 Oath 138
#53 Netapp 136
#54 Seiko Epson 134
#55 GE 134
#56 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 133
#57 Accenture Global Solutions Limited 131
#58 Intuit 130
#59 State Farm 126
#60 Fujifilm Business Innovation 124
#61 Inc Square, Co. 124
#62 Kyocera Document Solutions 124
#63 USAA 122
#64 OPPO 117
#65 Immersion 112
#66 The Boeing 111
#67 Ca 110
#68 Palantir Technologies 109
#69 Synopsys 109
#70 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 105
#71 Seagate Technology 104
#72 Texas Instruments 103
#73 Entit Software 102
#74 Blackberry Limited 101
#75 Commvault Systems 97
#76 Nokia Technologies Oy 97
#77 Siemens Healthcare Limited 95
#78 Fujifilm 94
#79 Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 94
#80 Imagination Technologies Limited 91
#81 Open Invention Network Llc Nc 91
#82 Tata Consultancy Services Limited 91
#83 Konica Minolta 90
#84 Verizon 90
#85 Synaptics Incorporated 88
#86 TSMC 87
#87 Dropbox 86
#88 Veritas Technologies 86
#89 KAIST 85
#90 Sandisk Technologies 85
#91 Brother Kogyo 84
#92 Honeywell 81
#93 Sonos 78
#94 JPMorgan Chase 78
#95 Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co. 77
#96 Wipro Limited 75
#97 Mitsubishi Electric 74
#98 Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha 74
#99 Wacom Co. 74
#100 Groupon 73