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Data storage Patent Leaders in 2024 2024

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 Xiang Yang 31 Sandisk Technologies
2 Chia-En Huang 28 TSMC
3 Jiahui Yuan 22 Sandisk Technologies
#4 Yih Wang 22 TSMC
#5 Ferdinando Bedeschi 21 Micron
#6 Kishore Kumar Muchherla 21 Micron
#7 Zvi Or-Bach 20 Monolithic 3D
#8 Meng-Fan Chang 19 National Tsing Hua University
#9 Norihito Kasada 19 Fujifilm
#10 Jiacen Guo 18 Sandisk Technologies
#11 Jin-Woo Han 18 Monolithic 3D
#12 Kang-Yong Kim 18 Micron
#13 Meng-Sheng Chang 18 TSMC
#14 Zhenming Zhou 18 Micron
#15 Masanobu Shirakawa 16 Kioxia
#16 Win-San Khwa 16 TSMC
#17 Yu-Chung Lien 16 Sandisk Technologies
#18 Po-Hao Tseng 15 Macronix International Co.
#19 Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu 15 Micron
#20 Yu-Der Chih 15 TSMC
#21 Frederick A. Ware 14 Rambus
#22 Liang Li 14 Sandisk Technologies
#23 Shih-Lien Linus Lu 14 TSMC
#24 Tetsuya Kaneko 14 Canon
#25 Feng-Min Lee 13 Macronix International Co.
#26 Innocenzo Tortorelli 13 Micron
#27 Koji Sakui 13 Micron
#28 Nozomu Harada 13 Unisantis Electronics Singapore Pte.
#29 Sivagnanam Parthasarathy 13 Micron
#30 Yi Song 13 Sandisk Technologies
#31 Choung Ki SONG 12 Sk Hynix
#32 Deepanshu Dutta 12 Sandisk Technologies
#33 Dong Hun KWAK 12 Samsung
#34 Hyung Jin CHOI 12 Sk Hynix
#35 Katherine H. Chiang 12 TSMC
#36 Karthik Sarpatwari 12 Micron
#37 Riccardo Muzzetto 12 Micron
#38 Robert G. Biskeborn 12 IBM
#39 Shunpei Yamazaki 12 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory
#40 Toru Nakao 12 Fujifilm
#41 Umberto Di Vincenzo 12 Micron
#42 Weibing Shang 12 Changxin Memory Technologies
#43 Yen-Huei Chen 12 TSMC
#44 Yuniarto Widjaja 12 Zeno Semiconductor
#45 Atul Katoch 11 TSMC
#46 Chung-Te Lin 11 TSMC
#47 Daniele Vimercati 11 Micron
#48 Fabio Pellizzer 11 Micron
#49 Hieu Van Tran 11 University of California
#50 Jonathan Tsung-Yung Chang 11 TSMC
#51 Jui-Jen Wu 11 TSMC
#52 Kuen Chee Ee 11 Magnecomp
#53 Masayuki Takagishi 11 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#54 Murong Lang 11 Micron
#55 Naoyuki Narita 11 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#56 Patrick R. Khayat 11 Micron
#57 Sai-Hooi Yeong 11 TSMC
#58 Sungsoo Chi 11 Changxin Memory Technologies
#59 Tomoyuki Maeda 11 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#60 Violante Moschiano 11 Micron
#61 Yuan He 11 Micron
#62 Yuji Nakagawa 11 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#63 Abhijith Prakash 10 Sandisk Technologies
#64 Brian R. York 10 Western Digital Technologies
#65 Hidehiro Fujiwara 10 TSMC
#66 Hiroshi Maejima 10 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#67 James Fitzpatrick 10 Micron
#68 Liang Zhang 10 Huawei
#69 Marco Sforzin 10 Micron
#70 Nevil N. Gajera 10 Micron
#71 Scott E. Schaefer 10 Micron
#72 Tazumi Nagasawa 10 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#73 Tomoko Ogura Iwasaki 10 Halo Lsi
#74 Woongrae Kim 10 Sk Hynix
#75 Yoichi Akano 10 Fujifilm
#76 Yu-Ming Lin 10 TSMC
#77 Zhan Ying 10 Changxin Memory Technologies
#78 Chung-Cheng Chou 9 TSMC
#79 Chia-Fu Lee 9 TSMC
#80 Harsh Rawat 9 Stmicroelectronics International N.V.
#81 Jun He 9 Intel
#82 Ke Zhang 9 Honeywell
#83 Ming-Hsiu Lee 9 Macronix International Co.
#84 Muhammad Asif Bashir 9 —
#85 Paolo Fantini 9 Micron
#86 Perng-Fei Yuh 9 TSMC
#87 Yi-Ching Liu 9 TSMC
#88 Akira Goda 8 Micron
#89 Alexander Goncharov 8 Western Digital Technologies
#90 Angelo Visconti 8 Micron
#91 Ashutosh Malshe 8 Micron
#92 Cherngye Hwang 8 IBM
#93 Cheng Hung Lee 8 TSMC
#94 Hari Giduturi 8 Micron
#95 Henry Chin 8 Sandisk Technologies
#96 Hee Youl Lee 8 Sk Hynix
#97 He-Zhou WAN 8 TSMC
#98 Hisashi Takano 8 Hitachi
#99 James S. Rehmeyer 8 Micron
#100 Jen-Chieh Liu 8 TSMC

Top Companies

Rank ↑ Company ↕ Patents ↕
1 Micron 476
2 Samsung 269
3 TSMC 234
#4 Kioxia 186
#5 Sk Hynix 180
#6 Changxin Memory Technologies 167
#7 Western Digital Technologies 131
#8 Sandisk Technologies 126
#9 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 84
#10 Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage 77
#11 Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. 67
#12 IBM 54
#13 Macronix International Co. 52
#14 Fujifilm 50
#15 United Microelectronics 43
#16 Seagate Technology 36
#17 Rambus 35
#18 Intel 31
#19 Sony 31
#20 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory 30
#21 NVIDIA 26
#22 Nanya Technology 24
#23 Monolithic 3D 19
#24 Stmicroelectronics International N.V. 19
#25 Qualcomm 18
#26 AMD 17
#27 Globalfoundries U.S. 17
#28 Microsoft 17
#29 Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. 15
#30 CEA 15
#31 Gopro 15
#32 Stmicroelectronics Sa 15
#33 Silicon Storage Technology 14
#34 Huawei 14
#35 Unisantis Electronics Singapore Pte. 13
#36 Texas Instruments 13
#37 Magnecomp 12
#38 Zeno Semiconductor 11
#39 Realtek Semiconductor 10
#40 Meta 10
#41 Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co. 9
#42 Ememory Technology 9
#43 Headway Technologies 9
#44 Infineon Technologies Ag 9
#45 Renesas Electronics 9
#46 Snap 9
#47 Synopsys 9
#48 Tsmc China Company, Limited 9
#49 Adobe 8
#50 Crossbar 8
#51 Nhk Spring Co. 8
#52 Weebit Nano 8
#53 BOE 8
#54 Disney 8
#55 Panasonic 8
#56 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 7
#57 Hoya 7
#58 KAIST 7
#59 Rovi Guides 7
#60 Google 7
#61 Anhui University 6
#62 Everspin Technologies 6
#63 Hefei Reliance Memory Limited 6
#64 Lodestar Licensing Group 6
#65 Stmicroelectronics (Rousset) Sas 6
#66 Tsmc Nanjing Company, Limited 6
#67 CNRS 5
#68 Dell Products 5
#69 Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co. 5
#70 Kepler Computing 5
#71 National Tsing Hua University 5
#72 Neo Semiconductor 5
#73 Nxp Usa 5
#74 Resonac 5
#75 Roku 5
#76 Silicon Motion 5
#77 Tdk 5
#78 Apple 4
#79 Adeia Guides 4
#80 Cadence Design Systems 4
#81 Ceremorphic 4
#82 Etron Technology 4
#83 Globalfoundries Singapore Pte. 4
#84 Hefei Boe Joint Technology Co. 4
#85 Institute Of Microelectronics Of The Chinese Academy Of Sciences 4
#86 Nantero 4
#87 Nuvoton Technology 4
#88 Pure Storage 4
#89 Rohm Co. 4
#90 Sae Magnetics (H.K.) 4
#91 Socionext 4
#92 Tencent 4
#93 Vervain 4
#94 Applied Materials 3
#95 Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited 3
#96 Blackmagic Design Pty 3
#97 Deepx Co. 3
#98 Ferroelectric Memory Gmbh 3
#99 Furukawa Electric Co. 3
#100 Goanimate 3