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Computing and AI Patent Leaders in 2021 2021

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 Lokesh M. Gupta 111 IBM
2 Sarbajit K. Rakshit 94 IBM
3 Benoit Dageville 90 Snowflake
#4 Abhishek R. Appu 76 Intel
#5 Joydeep Ray 76 Intel
#6 Austin Walters 74 Capital One Services
#7 Altug Koker 73 Intel
#8 Jeremy Goodsitt 73 Capital One Services
#9 Matthew G. Borlick 72 IBM
#10 Kevin J. Ash 66 IBM
#11 Jian Gao 65 Emc Ip Holding Company
#12 Jason K. Resch 64 IBM
#13 Thierry Cruanes 64 Snowflake
#14 Valentina Salapura 63 IBM
#15 Kyler A. Anderson 55 IBM
#16 Michael K. Gschwind 54 IBM
#17 Jonathan Blake Brannon 53 Broadcom
#18 Jeremy R. Fox 52 IBM
#19 Xinlei Xu 52 Emc Ip Holding Company
#20 Vincent Pham 51 Capital One Services
#21 Assaf Natanzon 50 Emc Ip Holding Company
#22 Joshua Edwards 49 Capital One Services
#23 Lisa Seacat DeLuca 49 Unstoppable Domains
#24 Michael Tsirkin 49 IBM
#25 Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall 48 —
#26 Geng Han 46 Emc Ip Holding Company
#27 Liam Harpur 44 IBM
#28 Paul R. Bastide 44 IBM
#29 Anton Kucherov 41 Emc Ip Holding Company
#30 Anh Truong 41 Capital One Services
#31 Balaji Vembu 41 Intel
#32 Jonathan Dunne 41 IBM
#33 Kuntal Dey 40 IBM
#34 Michael Mossoba 40 Capital One Services
#35 Patrick N. Lawrence 40 Bank of America
#36 Imran Chaudhri 39 Apple
#37 Mikhail Danilov 39 Emc Ip Holding Company
#38 Reza Farivar 39 Capital One Services
#39 Corville O. Allen 38 IBM
#40 Fang Lu 38 Microsoft
#41 Christian Jacobi 37 IBM
#42 Dung Q. Nguyen 37 IBM
#43 Haisheng Wang 37 BOE
#44 Philippe Armangau 36 Emc Ip Holding Company
#45 Russell Speight VanBlon 36 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.
#46 Shelesh Chopra 36 Emc Ip Holding Company
#47 Shikhar Kwatra 36 IBM
#48 Shay Benisty 35 Western Digital Technologies
#49 Clifford A. Pickover 34 IBM
#50 David Meiri 34 Emc Ip Holding Company
#51 Manu Kurian 34 Bank of America
#52 Prasoonkumar Surti 34 Intel
#53 Martin G. Keen 33 IBM
#54 Mark Watson 32 Capital One Services
#55 Seema Nagar 32 IBM
#56 Vijay Ekambaram 32 IBM
#57 Beth A. Peterson 31 IBM
#58 Eu-Joon BYUN 31 Sk Hynix
#59 Robert Valentine 31 Intel
#60 Shu Li 31 Alibaba
#61 Stanley J. Vernier 31 IBM
#62 Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira 30 Capital One Services
#63 Brian W. Thompto 30 IBM
#64 Donna K. Byron 30 IBM
#65 Eric Zavesky 30 AT&T
#66 Istvan Cseri 30 Snowflake
#67 Kishore Kumar Muchherla 30 Micron
#68 Stephen O. Lemay 30 Apple
#69 Vladimir Shveidel 30 Emc Ip Holding Company
#70 Xiangping Chen 30 Emc Ip Holding Company
#71 Xiaoliang Ding 30 BOE
#72 Clint A. Hardy 29 IBM
#73 James E. Bostick 29 Kyndryl
#74 Kelley Anders 29 IBM
#75 Andrew C. M. Hicks 28 IBM
#76 Arieh Don 28 Emc Ip Holding Company
#77 Gregory J. Boss 28 Globalfoundries
#78 Joseph Zbiciak 28 Texas Instruments
#79 Keith G. Frost 28 IBM
#80 Kyle M. Brake 28 IBM
#81 Stephen A. Boxwell 28 IBM
#82 Aaron K. Baughman 27 IBM
#83 John Jong-Suk Lee 27 The Toronto-Dominion Bank
#84 Micah Price 27 Capital One Services
#85 Nikolay Dobrovolskiy 27 Parallels International Gmbh
#86 Roman A. Pletka 27 IBM
#87 Sasa Tomic 27 IBM
#88 Serguei M. Beloussov 27 Parallels International Gmbh
#89 Travis T. Schluessler 27 Intel
#90 Xue Dong 27 BOE
#91 Yingming Liu 27 BOE
#92 Andrew D. Baptist 26 IBM
#93 David C. Reed 26 IBM
#94 Fan Zhang 26 Sk Hynix
#95 Gang Wang 26 Google
#96 Gregory E. McBride 26 IBM
#97 Hayato Kurasawa 26 Japan Display
#98 Ilya Volvovski 26 IBM
#99 Jeremy A. Greenberger 26 IBM
#100 Jibing Dong 26 Emc Ip Holding Company

Top Companies

Rank ↑ Company ↕ Patents ↕
1 IBM 5,176
2 Samsung 1,919
3 Microsoft 1,622
#4 Intel 1,240
#5 Emc Ip Holding Company 1,055
#6 Amazon 935
#7 Apple 907
#8 Google 898
#9 Canon 653
#10 Micron 607
#11 Advanced New Technologies Co. 563
#12 Capital One Services 524
#13 Sap Se 518
#14 Meta 501
#15 Dell Products 490
#16 Sony 479
#17 Oracle 471
#18 Salesforce 455
#19 NVIDIA 425
#20 Adobe 415
#21 Broadcom 409
#22 Huawei 391
#23 Sk Hynix 385
#24 BOE 370
#25 Cisco 335
#26 Fujitsu Limited 332
#27 LG 332
#28 Bank of America 299
#29 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 288
#30 AMD 277
#31 Nec 274
#32 Mastercard 267
#33 Western Digital Technologies 254
#34 PayPal 253
#35 Verizon 245
#36 Fujifilm Business Innovation 239
#37 Tencent 232
#38 Visa 231
#39 HP 228
#40 Hitachi 223
#41 Ebay 214
#42 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 213
#43 Disney 211
#44 Accenture Global Solutions Limited 204
#45 State Farm 182
#46 Qualcomm 180
#47 Intuit 177
#48 Ricoh Company 175
#49 Walmart Apollo 172
#50 Pure Storage 169
#51 USAA 168
#52 Toyota 167
#53 Snap 166
#54 Panasonic 165
#55 AT&T 157
#56 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 155
#57 Texas Instruments 151
#58 TSMC 147
#59 Unknown 146
#60 Palantir Technologies 144
#61 OPPO 141
#62 Snowflake 139
#63 Citrix Systems 137
#64 Kyocera Document Solutions 137
#65 Servicenow 137
#66 Alibaba 129
#67 Groupon 122
#68 Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co. 121
#69 JPMorgan Chase 121
#70 Seiko Epson 117
#71 Toshiba Memory 115
#72 The Boeing 105
#73 Brother Kogyo 102
#74 Japan Display 101
#75 KAIST 101
#76 Commvault Systems 100
#77 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 100
#78 Imagination Technologies Limited 98
#79 Seagate Technology 95
#80 Dropbox 94
#81 Silicon Motion 94
#82 Inc Square, Co. 93
#83 Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 92
#84 GE 91
#85 Netapp 90
#86 Mitsubishi Electric 87
#87 Fujifilm 86
#88 Ncr 85
#89 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 84
#90 Ford 84
#91 Cadence Design Systems 81
#92 Magic Leap 81
#93 Micro Focus 79
#94 Tata Consultancy Services Limited 78
#95 Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co. 77
#96 Xiaomi 77
#97 Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha 76
#98 Robert Bosch Gmbh 75
#99 Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co. 75
#100 Wacom Co. 74