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Computing and AI Patent Leaders in 2020 2020

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 110 IBM
2 Jeremy Goodsitt 90 Capital One Services
3 Austin Walters 88 Capital One Services
#4 Sarbajit K. Rakshit 80 IBM
#5 Jason K. Resch 76 IBM
#6 Valentina Salapura 70 IBM
#7 Haisheng Wang 69 BOE
#8 Jian Gao 69 Emc Ip Holding Company
#9 Lokesh M. Gupta 66 IBM
#10 Abhishek R. Appu 64 Intel
#11 Altug Koker 62 Intel
#12 Xiaoliang Ding 61 BOE
#13 Xue Dong 61 BOE
#14 Joydeep Ray 59 Intel
#15 Yingming Liu 58 BOE
#16 Michael Tsirkin 57 IBM
#17 Christian Jacobi 56 IBM
#18 Jonathan Blake Brannon 55 Broadcom
#19 Joshua Edwards 53 Capital One Services
#20 Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall 52 —
#21 Vincent Pham 52 Capital One Services
#22 Xinlei Xu 51 Emc Ip Holding Company
#23 Assaf Natanzon 50 Emc Ip Holding Company
#24 Anh Truong 49 Capital One Services
#25 Matthew G. Borlick 48 IBM
#26 Pengpeng Wang 46 BOE
#27 Greg R. Dhuse 45 IBM
#28 Hayato Kurasawa 45 Japan Display
#29 Mikhail Danilov 45 Emc Ip Holding Company
#30 Russell Speight VanBlon 45 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.
#31 Michael Mossoba 44 Capital One Services
#32 Micah Price 44 Capital One Services
#33 Wei Liu 44 BOE
#34 Donghun Yeo 43 Stradvision
#35 Hak-Kyoung Kim 43 Stradvision
#36 Hojin Cho 43 Stradvision
#37 Hongmo Je 43 Stradvision
#38 Imran Chaudhri 43 Apple
#39 Kyungjoong Jeong 43 Stradvision
#40 Kye-Hyeon Kim 43 Stradvision
#41 Myungchul Sung 43 Stradvision
#42 SukHoon Boo 43 Stradvision
#43 Taewoong Jang 43 Stradvision
#44 Woonhyun Nam 43 Stradvision
#45 Wooju Ryu 43 Stradvision
#46 Yongjoong Kim 43 Stradvision
#47 John M. Santosuosso 42 IBM
#48 Kevin J. Ash 42 IBM
#49 Serguei M. Beloussov 42 Parallels International Gmbh
#50 Clifford A. Pickover 41 IBM
#51 Qiaochu Tang 41 Capital One Services
#52 John M. Ganci, Jr. 40 IBM
#53 Liam Harpur 40 IBM
#54 Stephen O. Lemay 40 Apple
#55 Balaji Vembu 39 Intel
#56 Geoffrey Dagley 39 Capital One Services
#57 James E. Bostick 39 Kyndryl
#58 Jason Hoover 39 Capital One Services
#59 Changfeng Li 38 BOE
#60 Kabir A. Barday 38 Onetrust
#61 Lisa Seacat DeLuca 38 Unstoppable Domains
#62 Paul R. Bastide 38 IBM
#63 Reza Farivar 38 Capital One Services
#64 Timothy J. Slegel 38 IBM
#65 Vijay Ekambaram 38 IBM
#66 Andrew D. Baptist 37 IBM
#67 Martin G. Keen 37 IBM
#68 Benoit Dageville 36 Snowflake
#69 Siddhartha Chhabra 36 Intel
#70 John Jong-Suk Lee 35 The Toronto-Dominion Bank
#71 Manu Kurian 35 Bank of America
#72 Dongsoo Shin 34 Stradvision
#73 Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad 34 —
#74 Geng Han 34 Emc Ip Holding Company
#75 Kevin Jones 34 Onetrust
#76 Prasoonkumar Surti 34 Intel
#77 Shay Benisty 34 Western Digital Technologies
#78 Zhe Lin 34 Adobe
#79 David M. Durham 33 Intel
#80 Shinichi Kanno 33 Kioxia
#81 Wesley B. Leggette 33 IBM
#82 Yanling Han 33 BOE
#83 Anton Kucherov 32 Emc Ip Holding Company
#84 Corville O. Allen 32 IBM
#85 Lifeng Yang 32 Emc Ip Holding Company
#86 Mark Watson 32 Capital One Services
#87 Aaron K. Baughman 31 IBM
#88 Hiroshi Mizuhashi 31 Japan Display
#89 Shelesh Chopra 31 Emc Ip Holding Company
#90 Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira 30 Capital One Services
#91 Hyungsoo Lee 30 Stradvision
#92 Jibing Dong 30 Emc Ip Holding Company
#93 Marco Pistoia 30 IBM
#94 Marcel van Os 30 Apple
#95 Myeong-Chun Lee 30 Stradvision
#96 Robert Valentine 30 Intel
#97 Thierry Cruanes 30 Snowflake
#98 Hongpo Gao 29 Emc Ip Holding Company
#99 Sandeep R. Patil 29 IBM
#100 Junping Zhao 28 Emc Ip Holding Company

Top Companies

Rank ↑ Company ↕ Patents ↕
1 IBM 4,972
2 Microsoft 1,854
3 Samsung 1,831
#4 Intel 1,434
#5 Amazon 1,064
#6 Google 1,031
#7 Apple 982
#8 Emc Ip Holding Company 887
#9 Meta 694
#10 Canon 647
#11 Oracle 574
#12 Sap Se 557
#13 Capital One Services 539
#14 Dell Products 507
#15 Sony 490
#16 NVIDIA 438
#17 Alibaba 437
#18 LG 427
#19 Adobe 406
#20 Fujitsu Limited 394
#21 Salesforce 381
#22 BOE 369
#23 Huawei 365
#24 Micron 357
#25 Broadcom 351
#26 AMD 324
#27 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 316
#28 Sk Hynix 303
#29 Cisco 303
#30 Bank of America 272
#31 Nec 264
#32 Tencent 262
#33 Western Digital Technologies 261
#34 Qualcomm 259
#35 Mastercard 248
#36 Walmart Apollo 235
#37 HP 230
#38 PayPal 229
#39 Disney 223
#40 Hitachi 217
#41 Ricoh Company 195
#42 AT&T 194
#43 Toshiba Memory 193
#44 Accenture Global Solutions Limited 192
#45 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 183
#46 Panasonic 181
#47 Visa 178
#48 Ebay 177
#49 State Farm 176
#50 Pure Storage 173
#51 Intuit 169
#52 Unknown 168
#53 OPPO 162
#54 Japan Display 161
#55 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 155
#56 Palantir Technologies 153
#57 Oath 148
#58 Kyocera Document Solutions 147
#59 GE 144
#60 Texas Instruments 142
#61 USAA 136
#62 Fujifilm Business Innovation 127
#63 Servicenow 127
#64 Cadence Design Systems 125
#65 Toyota 122
#66 The Boeing 119
#67 Seiko Epson 118
#68 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 117
#69 TSMC 115
#70 Micro Focus 112
#71 Seagate Technology 112
#72 Brother Kogyo 107
#73 KAIST 106
#74 Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co. 104
#75 Netapp 104
#76 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 104
#77 Siemens Healthcare Limited 104
#78 Dropbox 102
#79 Commvault Systems 101
#80 Inc Square, Co. 100
#81 Silicon Motion 99
#82 Fujifilm 97
#83 Verizon 97
#84 Konica Minolta 96
#85 Synopsys 95
#86 Tata Consultancy Services Limited 94
#87 JPMorgan Chase 92
#88 Nutanix 91
#89 Snap 91
#90 Citrix Systems 90
#91 Groupon 89
#92 Honeywell 88
#93 Imagination Technologies Limited 87
#94 Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha 86
#95 Nokia Technologies Oy 84
#96 Advanced New Technologies Co. 79
#97 Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 77
#98 Xiaomi 76
#99 Ncr 75
#100 Wacom Co. 75