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Data storage Patent Leaders in 2023 2023

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 Kishore Kumar Muchherla 31 Micron
2 Yih Wang 28 TSMC
3 Masanobu Shirakawa 24 Kioxia
#4 Sasikanth Manipatruni 22 Kepler Computing
#5 Frederick A. Ware 21 Rambus
#6 Woongrae Kim 21 Sk Hynix
#7 Norihito Kasada 20 Fujifilm
#8 Xiang Yang 20 Sandisk Technologies
#9 Michael Sheperek 19 Micron
#10 Amrita Mathuriya 18 Kepler Computing
#11 Karthik Sarpatwari 18 Micron
#12 Meng-Sheng Chang 18 TSMC
#13 Minoru Yamaga 18 Sony
#14 Rajeev Kumar Dokania 18 Kepler Computing
#15 Sivagnanam Parthasarathy 18 Micron
#16 Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu 17 Micron
#17 Yu-Der Chih 17 TSMC
#18 Chia-En Huang 16 TSMC
#19 Fabio Pellizzer 16 Micron
#20 Ferdinando Bedeschi 16 Micron
#21 Mustafa N. Kaynak 16 Micron
#22 Yen-Huei Chen 16 TSMC
#23 Bruce A. Liikanen 15 Micron
#24 Umberto Di Vincenzo 15 Micron
#25 Daniele Vimercati 14 Micron
#26 Sampath K. Ratnam 14 Micron
#27 Zhenming Zhou 14 Micron
#28 James Fitzpatrick 13 Micron
#29 Nevil N. Gajera 13 Micron
#30 Peter Feeley 13 Micron
#31 Shane Nowell 13 Micron
#32 Tingjun Xie 13 Micron
#33 Alberto Troia 12 Micron
#34 Haitao Liu 12 Micron
#35 Hiroki Noguchi 12 TSMC
#36 Perng-Fei Yuh 12 TSMC
#37 Riccardo Muzzetto 12 Micron
#38 Robert G. Biskeborn 12 IBM
#39 Tomoko Ogura Iwasaki 12 Halo Lsi
#40 Zvi Or-Bach 12 Monolithic 3D
#41 Hung-Jen Liao 11 TSMC
#42 Innocenzo Tortorelli 11 Micron
#43 Junghwan Choi 11 Samsung
#44 Koji Sakui 11 Micron
#45 Larry J. Koudele 11 Micron
#46 Shunpei Yamazaki 11 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory
#47 Yoshihiko Kamata 11 Micron
#48 Ashutosh Malshe 10 Micron
#49 Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy 10 Micron
#50 Eric N. Lee 10 Micron
#51 James S. Rehmeyer 10 Micron
#52 Kang-Yong Kim 10 Micron
#53 Ku-Feng Lin 10 TSMC
#54 Marie Takada 10 Kioxia
#55 Noboru Shibata 10 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#56 Patrick R. Khayat 10 Micron
#57 Po-Hao Tseng 10 Macronix International Co.
#58 Youngdon Choi 10 Samsung
#59 Yuan He 10 Micron
#60 Antonino Mondello 9 Micron
#61 Harish Reddy Singidi 9 Micron
#62 He-Zhou WAN 9 TSMC
#63 Ian Shaeffer 9 Rambus
#64 Jinyoung Kim 9 Samsung
#65 Kamal M. Karda 9 Micron
#66 Liang Li 9 Sandisk Technologies
#67 Quang Le 9 Western Digital Technologies
#68 Shih-Lien Linus Lu 9 TSMC
#69 Violante Moschiano 9 Micron
#70 Yuniarto Widjaja 9 Zeno Semiconductor
#71 Zhenlei Shen 9 Micron
#72 Akira Goda 8 Micron
#73 Brian Cronquist 8 Monolithic 3D
#74 Brett R. Herdendorf 8 Seagate Technology
#75 Chung-Te Lin 8 TSMC
#76 Ching-Wei Wu 8 TSMC
#77 Deepanshu Dutta 8 Sandisk Technologies
#78 Hidehiro Fujiwara 8 TSMC
#79 Hieu Van Tran 8 University of California
#80 Hyung Jin CHOI 8 Sk Hynix
#81 Jason Bellorado 8 Seagate Technology
#82 Jeremy Binfet 8 Micron
#83 Jin-Woo Han 8 Monolithic 3D
#84 Jiahui Yuan 8 Sandisk Technologies
#85 Jonathan Tsung-Yung Chang 8 TSMC
#86 John Eric Linstadt 8 Rambus
#87 Kallol Mazumder 8 Micron
#88 Krishnan Subramanian 8 Seagate Technology
#89 Kuok San Ho 8 Western Digital Technologies
#90 Masayuki Takagishi 8 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#91 Murong Lang 8 Micron
#92 Naoyuki Narita 8 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#93 Nhan Do 8 Silicon Storage Technology
#94 Nozomu Harada 8 Unisantis Electronics Singapore Pte.
#95 Riyan Alex Mendonsa 8 Seagate Technology
#96 Robert J. Gleixner 8 Micron
#97 Sehwan Park 8 Samsung
#98 Tatsuya ONUKI 8 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory
#99 Thomas H. Kinsley 8 Micron
#100 Thomas Vogelsang 8 Rambus

Top Companies

Rank ↑ Company ↕ Patents ↕
1 Micron 614
2 Samsung 237
3 Sk Hynix 219
#4 TSMC 196
#5 Kioxia 172
#6 Western Digital Technologies 138
#7 Seagate Technology 78
#8 Sandisk Technologies 74
#9 Changxin Memory Technologies 72
#10 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 70
#11 Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage 68
#12 IBM 66
#13 Rambus 45
#14 Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. 45
#15 Sony 41
#16 United Microelectronics 40
#17 Fujifilm 33
#18 Macronix International Co. 33
#19 Intel 26
#20 Qualcomm 23
#21 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory 22
#22 Nanya Technology 20
#23 NVIDIA 19
#24 Kepler Computing 18
#25 Gopro 17
#26 AMD 16
#27 Stmicroelectronics Sa 14
#28 Headway Technologies 12
#29 Silicon Storage Technology 12
#30 Snap 12
#31 Tdk 12
#32 Texas Instruments 12
#33 Apple 11
#34 Monolithic 3D 11
#35 Stmicroelectronics International N.V. 11
#36 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 10
#37 Hoya 10
#38 Quantum 10
#39 Renesas Electronics 10
#40 Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co. 9
#41 Dell Products 9
#42 Sunrise Memory 9
#43 Tsmc China Company, Limited 9
#44 Zeno Semiconductor 9
#45 Google 9
#46 Applied Materials 8
#47 Ememory Technology 8
#48 Unisantis Electronics Singapore Pte. 8
#49 Canon 8
#50 Microsoft 8
#51 Amazon 7
#52 Beijing Dajia Internet Information Technology Co. 7
#53 Imec Vzw 7
#54 Magnecomp 7
#55 Rovi Guides 7
#56 Stmicroelectronics (Rousset) Sas 7
#57 Globalfoundries U.S. 6
#58 Hefei Reliance Memory Limited 6
#59 Nxp Usa 6
#60 Sae Magnetics (H.K.) 6
#61 Synopsys 6
#62 Disney 6
#63 Adobe 5
#64 Ferroelectric Memory Gmbh 5
#65 Infineon Technologies Ag 5
#66 Integrated Silicon Solution, (Cayman) 5
#67 Nhk Spring Co. 5
#68 Tohoku University 5
#69 BOE 5
#70 Univeristy Of Alabama 4
#71 Crossbar 4
#72 Emc Ip Holding Company 4
#73 Fujitsu Limited 4
#74 Innogrit Technologies Co. 4
#75 National University Of Singapore 4
#76 Realtek Semiconductor 4
#77 University of Minnesota 4
#78 Resonac 4
#79 Showa Denko K.K. 4
#80 Silicon Motion 4
#81 Tsmc Nanjing Company, Limited 4
#82 AT&T 3
#83 Avalanche Technology 3
#84 Chenbro Micom Co. 3
#85 Everspin Technologies 3
#86 Globalfoundries Singapore Pte. 3
#87 Inventec 3
#88 Inventec (Pudong) Technology 3
#89 Iridia 3
#90 Korea University Research And Business Foundation 3
#91 Mediatek 3
#92 Minebea Mitsumi 3
#93 Netflix 3
#94 Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing 3
#95 Proton World International N.V. 3
#96 Roku 3
#97 Seoul National University R&Db Foundation 3
#98 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 3
#99 Spotify Ab 3
#100 Tetramem 3