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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 99 IBM
2 Austin Walters 93 Capital One Services
3 Jeremy Goodsitt 93 Capital One Services
#4 Joshua Edwards 83 Capital One Services
#5 Charles Howard Cella 63 Strong Force Iot Portfolio 2016
#6 Benoit Dageville 58 Snowflake
#7 Vincent Pham 57 Capital One Services
#8 Anh Truong 56 Capital One Services
#9 Joydeep Ray 56 Intel
#10 Ronald Karr 56 Pure Storage
#11 Kishore Kumar Muchherla 54 Micron
#12 Shelesh Chopra 54 Emc Ip Holding Company
#13 Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira 52 Capital One Services
#14 Michael Mossoba 52 Capital One Services
#15 Abhishek R. Appu 50 Intel
#16 Altug Koker 48 Intel
#17 Daniel Keith Van Ostrand 48 Sigmasense, Llc.
#18 Shay Benisty 48 Western Digital Technologies
#19 Shikhar Kwatra 48 IBM
#20 Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall 47
#21 Shinichi Kanno 47 Kioxia
#22 Michael Tsirkin 46 IBM
#23 Shaoli Liu 46 Cambricon Technologies Corporation Limited
#24 Tony M. Brewer 45 Micron
#25 Jeremy R. Fox 44 IBM
#26 Richard Stuart Seger, JR. 43 Sigmasense, Llc.
#27 Zhe Lin 42 Adobe
#28 Jason K. Resch 41 IBM
#29 Thierry Cruanes 41 Snowflake
#30 Ashish B. Kurani 40 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
#31 Jeffrey RULE 40 Capital One Services
#32 Reza Farivar 40 Capital One Services
#33 Frederick A. Ware 38 Rambus
#34 John Colgrove 38 Pure Storage
#35 Kannan Achan 38 Walmart Apollo
#36 Poorna Kale 38 Micron
#37 Timothy David Anderson 37 Texas Instruments
#38 Yao Zhang 37 Cambricon Technologies Corporation Limited
#39 Balaji Vembu 36 Intel
#40 Shuo Li 36 IBM
#41 Stanislav Protasov 36 Acronis International Gmbh
#42 Subramanian Muralidhar 36 Snowflake
#43 Xiaobo Wang 36 IBM
#44 Caiming Xiong 35 Salesforce
#45 Shan Liu 35 Tencent America
#46 Vivek Viswanathan Iyer 35 Qualcomm
#47 Jehuda Shemer 34 Emc Ip Holding Company
#48 Patrick L. Coffman 34 Apple
#49 Imran Chaudhri 33 Apple
#50 Patrick Troy Gray 33 Sigmasense, Llc.
#51 Robert Valentine 33 Intel
#52 Galen Rafferty 32 Capital One Services
#53 Kevin Osborn 32 Capital One Services
#54 Marcel van Os 32 Apple
#55 Prasoonkumar Surti 32 Intel
#56 Micah Price 31 Capital One Services
#57 Richard C. Murphy 31 Micron
#58 Robert M. Walker 31 Micron
#59 Serguei Beloussov 31 Acronis International Gmbh
#60 Sheng Yan Sun 31 IBM
#61 Wenguang Wang 31 Broadcom
#62 Ashutosh Malshe 30 Micron
#63 Bingrui Wang 30 Cambricon Technologies Corporation Limited
#64 Di Wu 30 Medtronic
#65 Jiangli Zhu 30 Micron
#66 Mark J. Charney 30 Intel
#67 Adrien David Gaidon 29 Toyota
#68 Bharat Prasad 29 USAA
#69 David M. Durham 29 Intel
#70 Gerald Dale Morrison 29 Sigmasense, Llc.
#71 Kenneth Neumann 29 Kpn Innovations
#72 Sunil Yadav 29 Emc Ip Holding Company
#73 Venkata Vara Prasad Karri 29 IBM
#74 Andrew D. Baptist 28 IBM
#75 Chris Kalaboukis 28 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
#76 Judah Gamliel Hahn 28 Western Digital Technologies
#77 Mihir Narendra Mody 28 Texas Instruments
#78 Neelakantan Sundaresan 28 Ebay
#79 Qiaochu Tang 28 Capital One Services
#80 Stephen O. Lemay 28 Apple
#81 Tianshi Chen 28 Cambricon Technologies Corporation Limited
#82 Timothy W. Markison 28 Cleversafe
#83 Tyler Maiman 28 Capital One Services
#84 Gary W. Grube 27 Cleversafe
#85 Geng Han 27 Emc Ip Holding Company
#86 Martin G. Keen 27 IBM
#87 Madhusudhanan Krishnamoorthy 27 Bank of America
#88 Mukund P. Khatri 27 Dell Products
#89 Ramanathan Ramanathan 27 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
#90 Sampath K. Ratnam 27 Micron
#91 Aaron K. Baughman 26 IBM
#92 Boris Galitsky 26 Oracle
#93 David Aaron Palmer 26 Micron
#94 Jonathan S. Parry 26 Micron
#95 Mark Watson 26 Capital One Services
#96 Vladimir Shveidel 26 Emc Ip Holding Company
#97 Yang Zhang 26 BOE
#98 Adam Vukich 25 Capital One Services
#99 Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis 25 Snap
#100 Darran Michael Handshaw 25 Zebra Technologies

Top Companies

Rank Company Patents
1 IBM 2,534
2 Samsung 1,871
3 Microsoft 1,207
#4 Google 1,113
#5 Micron 1,018
#6 Apple 922
#7 Intel 879
#8 Amazon 793
#9 Capital One Services 756
#10 Dell Products 743
#11 Emc Ip Holding Company 716
#12 Canon 596
#13 Oracle 562
#14 Salesforce 485
#15 Adobe 433
#16 NVIDIA 430
#17 Bank of America 424
#18 Broadcom 419
#19 Huawei 406
#20 Sap Se 401
#21 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 394
#22 Cisco 393
#23 Sony 369
#24 AMD 356
#25 Snap 349
#26 Meta 331
#27 BOE 317
#28 Sk Hynix 313
#29 Nec 309
#30 Western Digital Technologies 284
#31 LG 279
#32 Visa 277
#33 Toyota 276
#34 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 231
#35 PayPal 231
#36 Pure Storage 227
#37 Mastercard 225
#38 Fujitsu Limited 222
#39 Qualcomm 222
#40 Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co. 220
#41 Ebay 219
#42 Intuit 208
#43 USAA 207
#44 Walmart Apollo 200
#45 Texas Instruments 194
#46 Kioxia 193
#47 Disney 191
#48 TSMC 189
#49 Snowflake 187
#50 Hitachi 184
#51 JPMorgan Chase 184
#52 State Farm 180
#53 Unknown 173
#54 Palantir Technologies 171
#55 Tencent 168
#56 Fujifilm Business Innovation 156
#57 Imagination Technologies Limited 152
#58 HP 149
#59 Accenture Global Solutions Limited 132
#60 Magic Leap 132
#61 Netapp 129
#62 NTT 126
#63 Brother Kogyo 125
#64 Robert Bosch Gmbh 124
#65 AT&T 118
#66 Ricoh Company 117
#67 Panasonic 115
#68 Block 113
#69 Kyocera Document Solutions 113
#70 Rovi Guides 103
#71 Japan Display 102
#72 Kyndryl 101
#73 Ford 101
#74 Alibaba 100
#75 Wacom Co. 99
#76 Verizon 99
#77 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 93
#78 GE 92
#79 KAIST 91
#80 Seiko Epson 91
#81 Xiaomi 90
#82 Groupon 90
#83 The Toronto-Dominion Bank 90
#84 Servicenow 89
#85 Commvault Systems 86
#86 The Nielsen Company (Us) 86
#87 Zebra Technologies 85
#88 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 82
#89 Comcast 82
#90 Atlassian Pty 81
#91 Silicon Motion 81
#92 Tata Consultancy Services Limited 79
#93 Chengdu Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co. 78
#94 Citrix Systems 78
#95 Mitsubishi Electric 78
#96 Worldpay 78
#97 Rambus 76
#98 Sonos 74
#99 Synopsys 74
#100 Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha 74