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Data storage Patent Leaders in 2017 2017

Primary CPC class G11 · 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 7,073 patents in 2010.peak 7,0731996: 3,440 patents19961997: 3,601 patents1998: 5,080 patents1999: 5,108 patents19992000: 5,282 patents2001: 5,495 patents2002: 5,727 patents20022003: 5,965 patents2004: 6,233 patents2005: 5,473 patents20052006: 6,998 patents2007: 6,466 patents2008: 6,445 patents20082009: 6,377 patents2010: 7,073 patents2011: 7,014 patents20112012: 6,604 patents2013: 5,900 patents2014: 5,913 patents20142015: 5,217 patents2016: 4,708 patents2017: 4,209 patents20172018: 3,362 patents2019: 3,589 patents2020: 3,839 patents20202021: 3,495 patents2022: 3,198 patents2023: 3,109 patents20232024: 3,312 patents2025: 3,065 patents2025

Top Inventors

Rank ↑ Inventor ↕ Patents ↕ Primary Company ↕
1 Robert G. Biskeborn 45 IBM
2 Calvin S. Lo 26 IBM
3 Tim Rausch 22 Seagate Technology
#4 Jhon Jhy Liaw 20 TSMC
#5 Masanobu Shirakawa 19 Kioxia
#6 Wenzhong Zhu 19 Seagate Technology
#7 Edward Charles Gage 18 Seagate Technology
#8 Frederick A. Ware 18 Rambus
#9 Kaizhong Gao 17 Seagate Technology
#10 Hee Youl Lee 16 Sk Hynix
#11 Mark A. Lantz 16 IBM
#12 Sang-Wan Nam 16 Samsung
#13 Anirban Roy 15 Medtronic
#14 Chang Hyun Kim 15 Sk Hynix
#15 Kiran Pangal 15 Intel
#16 Michael C. Kautzky 15 Seagate Technology
#17 Yen-Huei Chen 15 TSMC
#18 Deepanshu Dutta 14 Sandisk Technologies
#19 Hung-Jen Liao 14 TSMC
#20 Hyun-Kook Park 14 Samsung
#21 Jae Il Kim 14 Sk Hynix
#22 Jung Pill Kim 14 Qualcomm
#23 Michael A. Sadd 14 Nxp Usa
#24 Toru Tanzawa 14 Micron
#25 Tong Zhao 14 Seagate Technology
#26 Yeong-Taek Lee 14 Samsung
#27 Chang Hua Siau 13 Unity Semiconductor
#28 Dae-Seok Byeon 13 Samsung
#29 Hiroyuki Ito 13 Headway Technologies
#30 Ian Shaeffer 13 Rambus
#31 Kiyoshi Kato 13 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory
#32 Kuljit S. Bains 13 Intel
#33 Simeon Furrer 13 IBM
#34 Yingda Dong 13 Sandisk Technologies
#35 Yoshitaka Sasaki 13 Headway Technologies
#36 Brent Buchanan 12 Hewlett Packard Enterprise
#37 Seung H. Kang 12 Qualcomm
#38 Shigeki Tanemura 12 Headway Technologies
#39 Syed M. Alam 12 Everspin Technologies
#40 Violante Moschiano 12 Micron
#41 Yuniarto Widjaja 12 Zeno Semiconductor
#42 Akira Goda 11 Micron
#43 Alexander Fritsch 11 IBM
#44 Declan Macken 11 Seagate Technology
#45 Eric W. Singleton 11 Seagate Technology
#46 John B. Halbert 11 Intel
#47 Min Chang KIM 11 Sk Hynix
#48 Michael Kugel 11 IBM
#49 Robert A. Hutchins 11 IBM
#50 Chul-Woo Park 10 Samsung
#51 Do Yun Lee 10 Sk Hynix
#52 Eran Sharon 10 Sandisk Technologies
#53 Feng Liu 10 Western Digital (Fremont)
#54 Hernan A. Castro 10 Micron
#55 Hong Rak Son 10 Samsung
#56 Jae Jin Lee 10 Sk Hynix
#57 Jason Liang 10 IBM
#58 Kitae Park 10 Samsung
#59 Mark Anthony Gubbins 10 Seagate Technology
#60 Norihito Kasada 10 Fujifilm
#61 Noboru Shibata 10 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#62 Tatsuya ONUKI 10 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory
#63 Tianhong Yan 10 —
#64 Yong-Kyu Lee 10 Samsung
#65 Cheng Hung Lee 9 TSMC
#66 Erich F. Haratsch 9 Seagate Technology
#67 Hagop Nazarian 9 Crossbar
#68 Hiroshi Maejima 9 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#69 Hieu Van Tran 9 University of California
#70 Hun Sam Jung 9 Sk Hynix
#71 James Gary Wessel 9 Seagate Technology
#72 Kenichiro Yamada 9 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#73 Qiang Tang 9 Micron
#74 Shuhei Nagatsuka 9 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory
#75 Yuichiro Ishii 9 Renesas Electronics
#76 Alfredo Sam Chu 8 Seagate Technology
#77 Christophe J. Chevallier 8 Micron
#78 Chun-Hsiung Hung 8 Macronix International Co.
#79 Choung Ki SONG 8 Sk Hynix
#80 David A. Deen 8 Seagate Technology
#81 Dong Keun Kim 8 Sk Hynix
#82 Donghun Kwak 8 Samsung
#83 Ferdinando Bedeschi 8 Micron
#84 Idan Alrod 8 Sandisk Technologies
#85 Jae-Young Yi 8 Seagate Technology
#86 John Charles Duda 8 Seagate Technology
#87 Jong-Pil Son 8 Samsung
#88 Jun Jin Kong 8 Samsung
#89 Kazuki Sato 8 Headway Technologies
#90 Koichiro Zaitsu 8 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#91 Kwang-Il Park 8 Samsung
#92 Liang Pang 8 Sandisk Technologies
#93 Martin Blaber 8 Seagate Technology
#94 Marcus B. Mooney 8 Seagate Technology
#95 Makoto Yabuuchi 8 Renesas Electronics
#96 Michael Allen Seigler 8 Seagate Technology
#97 Nhan X. Bui 8 IBM
#98 Nian Niles Yang 8 Sandisk Technologies
#99 Ramin Ghodsi 8 Micron
#100 Sanjay Tiwari 8 Micron

Top Companies

Rank ↑ Company ↕ Patents ↕
1 Sk Hynix 378
2 Samsung 296
3 Seagate Technology 281
#4 Micron 268
#5 IBM 229
#6 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 211
#7 Sandisk Technologies 136
#8 Intel 135
#9 TSMC 88
#10 Western Digital Technologies 80
#11 Renesas Electronics 64
#12 Qualcomm 64
#13 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory 61
#14 Toshiba Memory 55
#15 Macronix International Co. 52
#16 Rambus 46
#17 Sony 44
#18 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 41
#19 NVIDIA 41
#20 Nxp Usa 37
#21 Apple 32
#22 Headway Technologies 30
#23 Disney 30
#24 Texas Instruments 30
#25 Ememory Technology 29
#26 Globalfoundries 28
#27 United Microelectronics 28
#28 Western Digital (Fremont) 28
#29 Panasonic 27
#30 Stmicroelectronics Sa 26
#31 Fujifilm 24
#32 Tdk 23
#33 Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. 22
#34 Cypress Semiconductor 20
#35 Everspin Technologies 19
#36 Canon 19
#37 Hgst Netherlands, B.V. 18
#38 Amazon 15
#39 Crossbar 15
#40 CEA 14
#41 Unknown 14
#42 AMD 13
#43 Gopro 13
#44 Hoya 13
#45 Silicon Storage Technology 13
#46 BOE 13
#47 Google 13
#48 Microsoft 13
#49 Longitude Semiconductor S.A.R.L. 12
#50 Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) 12
#51 Silicon Motion 12
#52 Zeno Semiconductor 12
#53 Oracle 12
#54 Globalfoundries Singapore Pte. 11
#55 Infineon Technologies Ag 11
#56 Socionext 11
#57 Stmicroelectronics (Rousset) Sas 11
#58 Kilopass Technology 10
#59 Mediatek 10
#60 Nhk Spring Co. 10
#61 Nidec 10
#62 Phison Electronics 10
#63 Hutchinson 9
#64 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 9
#65 Stmicroelectronics International N.V. 9
#66 Wd Media 9
#67 AT&T 8
#68 Avalanche Technology 8
#69 Conversant Intellectual Property Management 8
#70 Fujitsu Limited 8
#71 Integrated Device Technology 8
#72 Ovonyx Memory Technology 8
#73 Huawei 8
#74 LG 8
#75 Crocus Technology Sa 7
#76 Dell Products 7
#77 Empire Technology Development 7
#78 Hitachi 7
#79 Invecas 7
#80 National Tsing Hua University 7
#81 Sae Magnetics (H.K.) 7
#82 Unity Semiconductor 7
#83 Meta 7
#84 Casio Computer Co. 6
#85 Echostar Technologies L.L.C. 6
#86 Fuji Electric Co. 6
#87 Gsi Technology 6
#88 Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co. 6
#89 Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University 6
#90 Memory-Tech Holdings 6
#91 US Air Force 6
#92 Adesto Technologies 5
#93 Au Optronics 5
#94 Cadence Design Systems 5
#95 Cavium, Llc. 5
#96 CNRS 5
#97 Intellectual Ventures 5
#98 Invensas 5
#99 Nantero 5
#100 Northrop Grumman 5