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Data storage Patent Leaders in 2022 2022

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 Norihito Kasada 53 Fujifilm
2 Kishore Kumar Muchherla 25 Micron
3 Huai-Yuan Tseng 24 Sandisk Technologies
#4 Sasikanth Manipatruni 21 Kepler Computing
#5 Woongrae Kim 21 Sk Hynix
#6 Masanobu Shirakawa 20 Kioxia
#7 Minoru Yamaga 20 Sony
#8 Yuan He 19 Micron
#9 Ferdinando Bedeschi 18 Micron
#10 Hyung Jin CHOI 18 Sk Hynix
#11 Deepanshu Dutta 17 Sandisk Technologies
#12 Eiki Ozawa 17 Fujifilm
#13 James S. Rehmeyer 17 Micron
#14 Sivagnanam Parthasarathy 16 Micron
#15 Umberto Di Vincenzo 16 Micron
#16 Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu 16 Micron
#17 Yih Wang 16 TSMC
#18 Yu-Chung Lien 16 Sandisk Technologies
#19 Amrita Mathuriya 15 Kepler Computing
#20 Hieu Van Tran 15 University of California
#21 Noriyuki Sato 15 Kepler Computing
#22 Rajeev Kumar Dokania 15 Kepler Computing
#23 Yen-Huei Chen 15 TSMC
#24 Daniele Vimercati 14 Micron
#25 Fabio Pellizzer 14 Micron
#26 Harish Reddy Singidi 14 Micron
#27 Karthik Sarpatwari 14 Micron
#28 Nhan Do 14 Silicon Storage Technology
#29 Yu-Der Chih 14 TSMC
#30 Ashutosh Malshe 13 Micron
#31 Chia-En Huang 13 TSMC
#32 Dong Pan 13 Micron
#33 Frederick A. Ware 13 Rambus
#34 Quang Le 13 Western Digital Technologies
#35 Riyan Alex Mendonsa 13 Seagate Technology
#36 Tanay Gosavi 13 Kepler Computing
#37 Xiong Liu 13 Seagate Technology
#38 Andy Wangkun Chen 12 NVIDIA
#39 Brett R. Herdendorf 12 Seagate Technology
#40 Masayuki Takagishi 12 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#41 Michele Piccardi 12 Micron
#42 Naoyuki Narita 12 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#43 Sampath K. Ratnam 12 Micron
#44 Alberto Troia 11 Micron
#45 Hidehiro Fujiwara 11 TSMC
#46 James Fitzpatrick 11 Micron
#47 Michael Sheperek 11 Micron
#48 Mustafa N. Kaynak 11 Micron
#49 Noboru Shibata 11 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#50 Riccardo Muzzetto 11 Micron
#51 Shih-Lien Linus Lu 11 TSMC
#52 Vipin Tiwari 11 Silicon Storage Technology
#53 Antonino Mondello 10 Micron
#54 Atsushi Musha 10 Fujifilm
#55 Bruce A. Liikanen 10 Micron
#56 Debra M. Bell 10 Micron
#57 Debo Olaosebikan 10 Kepler Computing
#58 Eran Sharon 10 Sandisk Technologies
#59 Glen E. Hush 10 Micron
#60 Hee Youl Lee 10 Sk Hynix
#61 Hirofumi Suto 10 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#62 Hung-Jen Liao 10 TSMC
#63 Innocenzo Tortorelli 10 Micron
#64 Marco Sforzin 10 Micron
#65 Nevil N. Gajera 10 Micron
#66 Pratyush Pandey 10 Kepler Computing
#67 Qiang Tang 10 Micron
#68 Takanobu Iwama 10 Sony
#69 Tae H. Kim 10 Micron
#70 Takuto Kurokawa 10 Fujifilm
#71 Tazumi Nagasawa 10 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#72 Zvi Or-Bach 10 Monolithic 3D
#73 Aman Bhatia 9 Sk Hynix
#74 Fan Zhang 9 Sk Hynix
#75 Hagop Nazarian 9 Crossbar
#76 Hitoshi Iwasaki 9 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#77 Krishnan Subramanian 9 Seagate Technology
#78 Patrick R. Khayat 9 Micron
#79 Ravi Kumar 9 Sandisk Technologies
#80 Robert G. Biskeborn 9 IBM
#81 Takuya Matsumoto 9 Hitachi
#82 Thuan Vu 9 Silicon Storage Technology
#83 Troy A. Manning 9 Micron
#84 Anh Ly 8 Silicon Storage Technology
#85 Chung-Cheng Chou 8 TSMC
#86 Cheng Hung Lee 8 TSMC
#87 Chung-Te Lin 8 TSMC
#88 Dejiao Hu 8 Amethystum Storage Technology Co.
#89 He-Zhou WAN 8 TSMC
#90 Jin-Woo Han 8 Monolithic 3D
#91 Jinyoung Kim 8 Samsung
#92 Jun Tian 8 Tencent America
#93 Larry J. Koudele 8 Micron
#94 Marie Takada 8 Kioxia
#95 Mu Zheng 8 Amethystum Storage Technology Co.
#96 Paolo Amato 8 Micron
#97 Scott J. Derner 8 Micron
#98 Shane Nowell 8 Micron
#99 Sung Lae OH 8 Sk Hynix
#100 Tiewei Luo 8 Amethystum Storage Technology Co.

Top Companies

Rank ↑ Company ↕ Patents ↕
1 Micron 601
2 Sk Hynix 290
3 Samsung 211
#4 Kioxia 162
#5 TSMC 160
#6 Western Digital Technologies 148
#7 Seagate Technology 97
#8 Sandisk Technologies 87
#9 Fujifilm 79
#10 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 71
#11 Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage 69
#12 Sony 64
#13 IBM 53
#14 United Microelectronics 49
#15 Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. 39
#16 Intel 39
#17 Macronix International Co. 29
#18 Rambus 29
#19 NVIDIA 26
#20 Changxin Memory Technologies 25
#21 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory 22
#22 Qualcomm 22
#23 Silicon Storage Technology 21
#24 Gopro 17
#25 Panasonic 17
#26 Stmicroelectronics Sa 16
#27 Headway Technologies 15
#28 Kepler Computing 15
#29 Tdk 14
#30 AMD 13
#31 Realtek Semiconductor 13
#32 Ememory Technology 12
#33 Snap 12
#34 Nxp Usa 11
#35 Canon 11
#36 Disney 11
#37 Crossbar 10
#38 Ferroelectric Memory Gmbh 10
#39 Stmicroelectronics International N.V. 10
#40 Texas Instruments 10
#41 Globalfoundries U.S. 9
#42 Hefei Reliance Memory Limited 9
#43 Monolithic 3D 9
#44 Silicon Motion 9
#45 Toshiba Memory 9
#46 BOE 9
#47 Huawei 9
#48 Amazon 8
#49 Apple 8
#50 Amethystum Storage Technology Co. 8
#51 Nanya Technology 8
#52 Rovi Guides 8
#53 Tsmc China Company, Limited 8
#54 China Flash Co. 7
#55 Furukawa Electric Co. 7
#56 Magnecomp 7
#57 Netflix 7
#58 Tohoku University 7
#59 Uacj 7
#60 Zeno Semiconductor 7
#61 Google 7
#62 Microsoft 7
#63 Quantum 6
#64 Renesas Electronics 6
#65 Showa Denko K.K. 6
#66 Tetramem 6
#67 Beijing Dajia Internet Information Technology Co. 5
#68 Dell Products 5
#69 Fujitsu Limited 5
#70 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 5
#71 Infineon Technologies Ag 5
#72 Stmicroelectronics (Rousset) Sas 5
#73 Sunrise Memory 5
#74 Synopsys 5
#75 CEA 4
#76 Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology 4
#77 Emc Ip Holding Company 4
#78 Honda Motor Co. 4
#79 Imec Vzw 4
#80 Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University 4
#81 Integrated Silicon Solution, (Cayman) 4
#82 Jiangsu Advanced Memory Technology Co. 4
#83 Mediatek 4
#84 Microchip Technology Incorporated 4
#85 Nxp B.V. 4
#86 Seoul National University R&Db Foundation 4
#87 Tokyo Institute Of Technology 4
#88 Tsmc Nanjing Company, Limited 4
#89 Meta 4
#90 Adobe 3
#91 Alibaba 3
#92 Alto Memory Technology 3
#93 Beijing Boe Technology Development Co. 3
#94 Fadu 3
#95 Fujifilm Business Innovation 3
#96 Globalfoundries Singapore Pte. 3
#97 Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co. 3
#98 Hkc Corporation Limited 3
#99 Huazhong University Of Science And Technology 3
#100 Innogrit Technologies Co. 3