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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 Ofir Ezrielev 70 Dell Products
2 Joshua Edwards 69 Capital One Services
3 Sarbajit K. Rakshit 67 IBM
#4 Jeremy Goodsitt 66 Capital One Services
#5 Austin Walters 64 Capital One Services
#6 Shelesh Chopra 55 Emc Ip Holding Company
#7 Parminder Singh Sethi 54 Dell Products
#8 Shay Benisty 53 Western Digital Technologies
#9 Charles Howard Cella 49 Strong Force Iot Portfolio 2016
#10 Ronald Karr 49 Pure Storage
#11 Adolfo S. Montero 48 Dell Products
#12 Leigh Griffin 47 IBM
#13 Timothy David Anderson 47 Texas Instruments
#14 Amit Kumar Agrawal 45 Amazon
#15 Daniel L. Hamlin 45 Dell Products
#16 Craig Steven Wright 44 Nchain Licensing Ag
#17 Jehuda Shemer 44 Emc Ip Holding Company
#18 Stephen O. Lemay 43 Apple
#19 Vamsi K. Vankamamidi 42 Emc Ip Holding Company
#20 Yang Seok Ki 41 Samsung
#21 Zhen Jia 41 Dell Products
#22 CHIN-PIN KUO 40 Foxconn
#23 Gary W. Grube 40 Cleversafe
#24 Michael Mossoba 40 Capital One Services
#25 Ramanathan Muthiah 40 Western Digital Technologies
#26 Abhishek R. Appu 39 Intel
#27 Anh Truong 39 Capital One Services
#28 Francesc Guim Bernat 38 Intel
#29 Michael Tsirkin 38 IBM
#30 Stanislav Protasov 38 Acronis International Gmbh
#31 Curt C. von Badinski 37 Ouraring
#32 Michael J. Strasser 37 Ouraring
#33 Peter Twiss 37 Ouraring
#34 Armando Montalvo 36 Digital Global Systems
#35 Joydeep Ray 36 Intel
#36 Tyler Maiman 36 Capital One Services
#37 Vincent Pham 36 Capital One Services
#38 Zhe Lin 36 Adobe
#39 Deeder M. Aurongzeb 35 Dell Products
#40 Shan Liu 35 Tencent America
#41 Arshdeep Bahga 34 Unknown
#42 Darran Michael Handshaw 34 Zebra Technologies
#43 Vijay Madisetti 34 Unknown
#44 Zehua SHAO 34 Chengdu Qinchuan Iot Technology Co.
#45 Jeffrey RULE 33 Capital One Services
#46 Toshiyasu SUGIO 33 Sun Patent Trust
#47 Amihai Savir 32 Emc Ip Holding Company
#48 Elya Shechtman 32 Adobe
#49 Frederick A. Ware 32 Rambus
#50 Ibrahim Sayyed 32 Dell Products
#51 Judah Gamliel Hahn 32 Western Digital Technologies
#52 Maharaj Mukherjee 32 IBM
#53 Zijia Wang 32 Dell Products
#54 Alexander Bazarsky 31 Western Digital Technologies
#55 Arieh Don 31 Emc Ip Holding Company
#56 Maxim Balin 31 Dell Products
#57 Miriam Silver 31 Citibank, N.A.
#58 Reda Harb 31 Rovi Guides
#59 Altug Koker 30 Intel
#60 Jeremy R. Fox 30 IBM
#61 Alan C. Dye 29 Apple
#62 Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall 29
#63 Galen Rafferty 29 Capital One Services
#64 Manu Kurian 29 Bank of America
#65 Ramesh Doddaiah 29 Dell Products
#66 Imran Chaudhri 28 Apple
#67 Kenneth Jason Sanchez 28 State Farm
#68 Serg Bell 28 Acronis International Gmbh
#69 Sunil Yadav 28 Emc Ip Holding Company
#70 Haifeng Wang 27 Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co.
#71 Mikko Strandborg 27 Varjo Technologies 0Y
#72 Prasoonkumar Surti 27 Intel
#73 Shailendra Singh 27 Bank of America
#74 Benoit Dageville 26 Snowflake
#75 Charles Yeomans 26 Atombeam Technologies
#76 Jace W. Files 26 Dell Products
#77 Shinichi Kanno 26 Kioxia
#78 Stephen Coady 26 IBM
#79 Subramanian Muralidhar 26 Snowflake
#80 Yi Zhang 26 BOE
#81 John Trevor Morrison 25 Dell Products
#82 Joseph Zbiciak 25 Texas Instruments
#83 Mark J. Charney 25 Intel
#84 Noritaka IGUCHI 25 Panasonic
#85 Ron Diamant 25 Amazon
#86 Robert Valentine 25 Intel
#87 Tomer Shachar 25 Dell Products
#88 Vladimir Shveidel 25 Emc Ip Holding Company
#89 Ami Luttwak 24 Wiz
#90 Ariel Navon 24 Western Digital Technologies
#91 Itamar Berger 24 Snap
#92 Jianming Zhang 24 Adobe
#93 Jonathan S. Parry 24 Micron
#94 Scott Cohen 24 York University
#95 Yevgeni Gehtman 24 Dell Products
#96 Yu Wang 24 BOE
#97 Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis 23 Snap
#98 Chu Hong Hoi 23 Salesforce
#99 Greg R. Dhuse 23 IBM
#100 Jason K. Resch 23 IBM

Top Companies

Rank Company Patents
1 Samsung 2,103
2 IBM 1,444
3 Dell Products 1,172
#4 Microsoft 1,112
#5 Google 1,041
#6 Apple 890
#7 Intel 866
#8 Amazon 655
#9 Micron 642
#10 Huawei 630
#11 NVIDIA 596
#12 Capital One Services 552
#13 Canon 545
#14 Oracle 480
#15 Bank of America 428
#16 Sony 379
#17 Adobe 371
#18 Nec 363
#19 AMD 356
#20 Qualcomm 355
#21 Toyota 338
#22 Snap 333
#23 Sap Se 328
#24 Salesforce 304
#25 BOE 302
#26 LG 270
#27 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 234
#28 Sk Hynix 218
#29 Tencent 217
#30 Cisco 216
#31 JPMorgan Chase 208
#32 Sandisk Technologies 202
#33 Texas Instruments 177
#34 Panasonic 174
#35 Visa 174
#36 Disney 167
#37 Meta 156
#38 PayPal 152
#39 Pure Storage 148
#40 Robert Bosch Gmbh 143
#41 Mastercard 141
#42 Adeia Guides 133
#43 State Farm 130
#44 TSMC 130
#45 Unknown 122
#46 USAA 121
#47 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 120
#48 Walmart Apollo 120
#49 Imagination Technologies Limited 118
#50 Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co. 117
#51 Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. 116
#52 Kioxia 116
#53 Snowflake 115
#54 Netapp 114
#55 KAIST 113
#56 General Motors 113
#57 Comcast 106
#58 Emc Ip Holding Company 105
#59 Palantir Technologies 104
#60 Wacom Co. 102
#61 NTT 101
#62 Broadcom 97
#63 Honeywell 95
#64 Fujifilm 91
#65 GE 89
#66 Accenture Global Solutions Limited 84
#67 Honor Device Co. 83
#68 AT&T 82
#69 Truist Bank 82
#70 Ebay 81
#71 Intuit 79
#72 The Toronto-Dominion Bank 79
#73 Ford 78
#74 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 77
#75 Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 76
#76 Suzhou Metabrain Intelligent Technology Co. 74
#77 Fujifilm Business Innovation 73
#78 Hitachi 73
#79 Maplebear 73
#80 Ericsson 73
#81 Zebra Technologies 73
#82 American Express 72
#83 Block 72
#84 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 72
#85 Verizon 72
#86 Magic Leap 71
#87 Rubrik 71
#88 Tata Consultancy Services Limited 70
#89 Siemens Healthineers Ag 69
#90 Chengdu Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co. 68
#91 Citibank, N.A. 67
#92 Lemon 65
#93 Rambus 65
#94 Silicon Motion 65
#95 Fujitsu Limited 64
#96 OPPO 61
#97 Foxconn 61
#98 Mitsubishi Electric 61
#99 Tencent America 61
#100 Hitachi Vantara 60