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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 Joshua Edwards 96 Capital One Services
2 Shelesh Chopra 90 Emc Ip Holding Company
3 Sarbajit K. Rakshit 78 IBM
#4 Austin Walters 77 Capital One Services
#5 Jeremy Goodsitt 77 Capital One Services
#6 Michael Mossoba 58 Capital One Services
#7 Kevin Osborn 55 Capital One Services
#8 Sunil Yadav 55 Emc Ip Holding Company
#9 Tyler Maiman 54 Capital One Services
#10 Joydeep Ray 53 Intel
#11 Ronald Karr 53 Pure Storage
#12 Shinichi Kanno 53 Kioxia
#13 Abhishek R. Appu 52 Intel
#14 Jeffrey RULE 52 Capital One Services
#15 Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall 51
#16 Anh Truong 50 Capital One Services
#17 Vincent Pham 50 Capital One Services
#18 Altug Koker 49 Intel
#19 Daniel Keith Van Ostrand 49 Sigmasense, Llc.
#20 Timothy David Anderson 49 Texas Instruments
#21 Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira 45 Capital One Services
#22 Richard Stuart Seger, JR. 44 Sigmasense, Llc.
#23 Jeremy R. Fox 43 IBM
#24 Benoit Dageville 42 Snowflake
#25 Stephen O. Lemay 42 Apple
#26 Vladimir Shveidel 42 Emc Ip Holding Company
#27 George Kondiles 41 Ocient Holdings
#28 John Colgrove 39 Pure Storage
#29 Parminder Singh Sethi 39 Dell Products
#30 Shay Benisty 39 Western Digital Technologies
#31 Frederick A. Ware 38 Rambus
#32 Kishore Kumar Muchherla 38 Micron
#33 Shan Liu 37 Tencent America
#34 Stanislav Protasov 37 Acronis International Gmbh
#35 Subramanian Muralidhar 37 Snowflake
#36 Ashish B. Kurani 36 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
#37 Jason K. Resch 36 IBM
#38 Peng Hui Jiang 36 IBM
#39 Reza Farivar 36 Capital One Services
#40 Vivek Viswanathan Iyer 36 Qualcomm
#41 Zhe Lin 36 Adobe
#42 Amit Kumar Agrawal 35 Amazon
#43 Jehuda Shemer 35 Emc Ip Holding Company
#44 Jonathan S. Parry 35 Micron
#45 Michael Tsirkin 35 IBM
#46 Darran Michael Handshaw 34 Zebra Technologies
#47 Daniel J. Sullivan 34 The Strategic Coach
#48 Imran Chaudhri 34 Apple
#49 Tony M. Brewer 34 Micron
#50 Ron Diamant 33 Amazon
#51 Robert Valentine 33 Intel
#52 Shikhar Kwatra 33 IBM
#53 Victor Carbune 33 Google
#54 Barbara Sue Smith 32 The Strategic Coach
#55 Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis 32 Snap
#56 Marcel van Os 32 Apple
#57 Micah Price 32 Capital One Services
#58 Patrick Troy Gray 32 Sigmasense, Llc.
#59 Shaoli Liu 32 Cambricon Technologies Corporation Limited
#60 Galen Rafferty 31 Capital One Services
#61 Gerald Dale Morrison 31 Sigmasense, Llc.
#62 Kannan Achan 31 Walmart Apollo
#63 Mark J. Charney 31 Intel
#64 Prasoonkumar Surti 31 Intel
#65 Thierry Cruanes 31 Snowflake
#66 Lei Zhang 30 Microsoft
#67 Matthew Sharifi 30 Google
#68 Steven Teig 30 Cadence Design Systems
#69 CHIN-PIN KUO 29 Foxconn
#70 Edward Barkan 29 Zebra Technologies
#71 Leigh Griffin 29 IBM
#72 Ramanathan Muthiah 29 Western Digital Technologies
#73 Ramanathan Ramanathan 29 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
#74 Timothy W. Markison 29 Cleversafe
#75 Toshiyasu SUGIO 29 Sun Patent Trust
#76 Vamsi K. Vankamamidi 29 Emc Ip Holding Company
#77 Zehua SHAO 29 Chengdu Qinchuan Iot Technology Co.
#78 Bryant Yee 28 Capital One Services
#79 Charles Howard Cella 28 Strong Force Iot Portfolio 2016
#80 Kenneth Neumann 28 Kpn Innovations
#81 Neelakantan Sundaresan 28 Ebay
#82 Qiaochu Tang 28 Capital One Services
#83 Ryoma Oami 28 Nec
#84 Varghese George 28 Intel
#85 Vasanth Ranganathan 28 Intel
#86 Yang Seok Ki 28 Samsung
#87 Francesc Guim Bernat 27 Intel
#88 Gang Wang 27 Google
#89 Geoffrey Dagley 27 Capital One Services
#90 Jason Arnold 27 Ocient Holdings
#91 Subramaniam Maiyuran 27
#92 Adam Vukich 26 Capital One Services
#93 Alan C. Dye 26 Apple
#94 Gary W. Grube 26 Cleversafe
#95 Mark Watson 26 Capital One Services
#96 Craig Steven Wright 25 Nchain Licensing Ag
#97 John G. Favor 25 Ventana Micro Systems
#98 Mihir Narendra Mody 25 Texas Instruments
#99 Rameshchandra Bhaskar Ketharaju 25 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
#100 Serguei Beloussov 25 Acronis International Gmbh

Top Companies

Rank Company Patents
1 Samsung 1,961
2 IBM 1,693
3 Google 1,218
#4 Dell Products 1,114
#5 Microsoft 1,087
#6 Apple 977
#7 Capital One Services 894
#8 Micron 858
#9 Intel 841
#10 Amazon 732
#11 Huawei 620
#12 Canon 522
#13 NVIDIA 497
#14 Oracle 474
#15 Sony 474
#16 Nec 454
#17 Sap Se 438
#18 Bank of America 421
#19 Snap 414
#20 AMD 411
#21 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 381
#22 Adobe 379
#23 Salesforce 347
#24 BOE 344
#25 Tencent 324
#26 Emc Ip Holding Company 319
#27 Cisco 315
#28 Toyota 302
#29 NTT 295
#30 LG 282
#31 USAA 263
#32 Qualcomm 263
#33 Visa 258
#34 Sk Hynix 255
#35 Broadcom 242
#36 Pure Storage 241
#37 PayPal 223
#38 Kioxia 217
#39 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 207
#40 State Farm 206
#41 Walmart Apollo 206
#42 Texas Instruments 202
#43 Meta 196
#44 JPMorgan Chase 186
#45 Snowflake 184
#46 Mastercard 184
#47 Panasonic 184
#48 Intuit 177
#49 Hitachi 170
#50 Western Digital Technologies 168
#51 Netapp 151
#52 Unknown 145
#53 Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co. 137
#54 Ebay 136
#55 Disney 136
#56 KAIST 135
#57 Palantir Technologies 135
#58 Brother Kogyo 133
#59 Imagination Technologies Limited 133
#60 TSMC 133
#61 HP 129
#62 Robert Bosch Gmbh 128
#63 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 127
#64 Rovi Guides 125
#65 Wacom Co. 125
#66 The Toronto-Dominion Bank 114
#67 Accenture Global Solutions Limited 112
#68 Ford 111
#69 Fujifilm 109
#70 Block 107
#71 Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 104
#72 Magic Leap 104
#73 Ricoh Company 104
#74 Zebra Technologies 104
#75 Tata Consultancy Services Limited 100
#76 General Motors 100
#77 Chengdu Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co. 98
#78 Japan Display 94
#79 Seiko Epson 91
#80 Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co. 90
#81 Comcast 90
#82 Inspur Suzhou Intelligent Technology Co. 89
#83 AT&T 88
#84 Rambus 88
#85 Fujifilm Business Innovation 87
#86 Truist Bank 87
#87 Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha 85
#88 Allstate Insurance 84
#89 Honda Motor Co. 84
#90 Hyundai Motor 83
#91 Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co. 82
#92 Dropbox 81
#93 Sonos 81
#94 Ericsson 80
#95 Open Text 79
#96 Silicon Motion 78
#97 Mitsubishi Electric 77
#98 The Boeing 77
#99 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 76
#100 Sandisk Technologies 76