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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 Sarbajit K. Rakshit 77 IBM
2 Joydeep Ray 75 Intel
3 Abhishek R. Appu 73 Intel
#4 Benoit Dageville 73 Snowflake
#5 Altug Koker 72 Intel
#6 Austin Walters 70 Capital One Services
#7 Jeremy Goodsitt 70 Capital One Services
#8 Joshua Edwards 67 Capital One Services
#9 Thierry Cruanes 64 Snowflake
#10 Shikhar Kwatra 59 IBM
#11 Jian Gao 58 Emc Ip Holding Company
#12 Jeremy R. Fox 56 IBM
#13 Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall 55
#14 Haisheng Wang 55 BOE
#15 Jonathan Blake Brannon 55 Broadcom
#16 Michael Mossoba 54 Capital One Services
#17 Wenguang Wang 51 Broadcom
#18 Lokesh M. Gupta 50 IBM
#19 Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira 48 Capital One Services
#20 Shelesh Chopra 46 Emc Ip Holding Company
#21 Geng Han 45 Emc Ip Holding Company
#22 Timothy David Anderson 45 Texas Instruments
#23 Mikhail Danilov 44 Emc Ip Holding Company
#24 Vincent Pham 44 Capital One Services
#25 Hao Zhang 43 BOE
#26 Balaji Vembu 42 Intel
#27 Michael Tsirkin 42 IBM
#28 Xiaoliang Ding 42 BOE
#29 Anh Truong 41 Capital One Services
#30 Xinlei Xu 40 Emc Ip Holding Company
#31 Robert Valentine 39 Intel
#32 Yingming Liu 39 BOE
#33 Arieh Don 37 Emc Ip Holding Company
#34 Kishore Kumar Muchherla 37 Micron
#35 Jason K. Resch 36 IBM
#36 Vamsi K. Vankamamidi 36 Emc Ip Holding Company
#37 Zachary A. Silverstein 36 IBM
#38 Shay Benisty 35 Western Digital Technologies
#39 Philippe Armangau 34 Emc Ip Holding Company
#40 Shinichi Kanno 34 Kioxia
#41 Ashish B. Kurani 33 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
#42 Eric Zavesky 33 AT&T
#43 Eu-Joon BYUN 33 Sk Hynix
#44 Frederick A. Ware 33 Rambus
#45 Jonathan Dunne 33 IBM
#46 Lili Chen 33 BOE
#47 Mark J. Charney 33 Intel
#48 Prasoonkumar Surti 33 Intel
#49 Reza Farivar 33 Capital One Services
#50 Aaron K. Baughman 32 IBM
#51 Matthew G. Borlick 32 IBM
#52 Ronald Karr 32 Pure Storage
#53 Russell Speight VanBlon 32 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.
#54 Zhe Lin 32 Adobe
#55 Imran Chaudhri 31 Apple
#56 Istvan Cseri 31 Snowflake
#57 Lei Wang 31 BOE
#58 Ron Diamant 31 Amazon
#59 Assaf Natanzon 30 Emc Ip Holding Company
#60 Jeffrey RULE 30 Capital One Services
#61 Kevin J. Ash 30 IBM
#62 Patrick L. Coffman 30 Apple
#63 Andrey V. Kuzmin 29 Radian Memory Systems, Illc
#64 Craig M. Trim 29 IBM
#65 Jibing Dong 29 Emc Ip Holding Company
#66 Kannan Achan 29 Walmart Apollo
#67 Shaoli Liu 29 Cambricon Technologies Corporation Limited
#68 Tony M. Brewer 29 Micron
#69 Yang Zhang 29 BOE
#70 Bharat Prasad 28 USAA
#71 David Meiri 28 Emc Ip Holding Company
#72 Lisa Seacat DeLuca 28 Unstoppable Domains
#73 Subramanian Muralidhar 28 Snowflake
#74 Vivek Viswanathan Iyer 28 Qualcomm
#75 Vladimir Shveidel 28 Emc Ip Holding Company
#76 Huamin Chen 27 IBM
#77 Kenneth Neumann 27 Kpn Innovations
#78 Manu Kurian 27 Bank of America
#79 Ravikanth Chaganti 27 Dell Products
#80 Ronen Gazit 27 Emc Ip Holding Company
#81 Tianshi Chen 27 Cambricon Technologies Corporation Limited
#82 Daniel Keith Van Ostrand 26 Sigmasense, Llc.
#83 Dharmesh M. Patel 26 Dell Products
#84 Martin G. Keen 26 IBM
#85 Madhusudhanan Krishnamoorthy 26 Bank of America
#86 Serguei M. Beloussov 26 Parallels International Gmbh
#87 Stephen O. Lemay 26 Apple
#88 Allison Waingold Lee 25 Snowflake
#89 Jesus Corbal 25 Intel
#90 Jianbin Kang 25 Emc Ip Holding Company
#91 Kyler A. Anderson 25 IBM
#92 Ming Zhang 25 Emc Ip Holding Company
#93 Paul X. Wang 25 Apple
#94 Shu Li 25 Alibaba
#95 Stanislav Protasov 25 Acronis International Gmbh
#96 Sunil Yadav 25 Emc Ip Holding Company
#97 Xue Dong 25 BOE
#98 Alan C. Dye 24 Apple
#99 Craig M. Trim 24
#100 David M. Durham 24 Intel

Top Companies

Rank Company Patents
1 IBM 3,003
2 Samsung 1,946
3 Microsoft 1,268
#4 Emc Ip Holding Company 1,135
#5 Intel 1,000
#6 Amazon 964
#7 Google 874
#8 Apple 866
#9 Micron 756
#10 Dell Products 701
#11 Canon 624
#12 Sap Se 539
#13 Oracle 535
#14 Capital One Services 533
#15 Sony 497
#16 Salesforce 483
#17 Huawei 463
#18 Sk Hynix 462
#19 Meta 427
#20 NVIDIA 411
#21 BOE 408
#22 Bank of America 401
#23 Adobe 386
#24 Broadcom 366
#25 HP 349
#26 LG 335
#27 Nec 323
#28 Cisco 308
#29 AMD 299
#30 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 299
#31 Fujitsu Limited 297
#32 Advanced New Technologies Co. 292
#33 Western Digital Technologies 270
#34 Mastercard 244
#35 Tencent 242
#36 Toyota 241
#37 Fujifilm Business Innovation 237
#38 Hitachi 236
#39 Visa 236
#40 PayPal 229
#41 Snap 226
#42 Qualcomm 209
#43 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 206
#44 USAA 199
#45 Snowflake 198
#46 Disney 194
#47 Accenture Global Solutions Limited 192
#48 Citrix Systems 188
#49 Ebay 188
#50 AT&T 178
#51 Pure Storage 175
#52 Texas Instruments 174
#53 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 167
#54 Palantir Technologies 167
#55 Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co. 166
#56 Kioxia 157
#57 Walmart Apollo 157
#58 Alibaba 151
#59 Intuit 150
#60 JPMorgan Chase 150
#61 Verizon 147
#62 Unknown 143
#63 Servicenow 140
#64 State Farm 138
#65 Ricoh Company 132
#66 Panasonic 131
#67 Kyndryl 128
#68 Seiko Epson 127
#69 Robert Bosch Gmbh 126
#70 Magic Leap 124
#71 NTT 119
#72 Netapp 115
#73 Commvault Systems 114
#74 Brother Kogyo 113
#75 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 113
#76 Imagination Technologies Limited 112
#77 Beijing Boe Technology Development Co. 109
#78 Mitsubishi Electric 108
#79 TSMC 107
#80 Groupon 104
#81 Honda Motor Co. 102
#82 Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co. 101
#83 Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. 98
#84 Kyocera Document Solutions 97
#85 Silicon Motion 97
#86 The Toronto-Dominion Bank 94
#87 Tata Consultancy Services Limited 93
#88 Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha 92
#89 Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 91
#90 GE 90
#91 OPPO 89
#92 KAIST 88
#93 Xiaomi 87
#94 Block 86
#95 Rovi Guides 85
#96 Seagate Technology 82
#97 Chengdu Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co. 78
#98 Japan Display 78
#99 Wacom Co. 78
#100 Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co. 78