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Hand tools Patent Leaders in 2023 2023

Primary CPC class B25 · Section B

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 2,592 patents in 2025.peak 2,5921996: 630 patents19961997: 577 patents1998: 779 patents1999: 873 patents19992000: 1,007 patents2001: 998 patents2002: 885 patents20022003: 845 patents2004: 808 patents2005: 824 patents20052006: 1,013 patents2007: 849 patents2008: 695 patents20082009: 575 patents2010: 804 patents2011: 870 patents20112012: 1,051 patents2013: 1,250 patents2014: 1,171 patents20142015: 1,303 patents2016: 1,281 patents2017: 1,408 patents20172018: 1,340 patents2019: 1,575 patents2020: 1,857 patents20202021: 1,869 patents2022: 2,186 patents2023: 2,239 patents20232024: 2,408 patents2025: 2,592 patents2025

Top Inventors

Rank ↑ Inventor ↕ Patents ↕ Primary Company ↕
1 Youjun Xiong 19 Ubtech Robotics Corp
2 Rosen Nikolaev Diankov 13 Mujin
3 Samir Menon 12 Dexterity
#4 Chih-Ching Hsieh 11 Kabo Tool
#5 Thomas Wagner 11 Berkshire Grey Operating Company
#6 Yoshitaka Machida 11 Makita
#7 Zhouwen Sun 11 Dexterity
#8 Christopher Geyer 10 Berkshire Grey Operating Company
#9 Fraser M. Smith 10 Sarcos
#10 Joseph Romano 10 Berkshire Grey Operating Company
#11 Kazutaka Nakayama 10 Fanuc
#12 Matthew T. Mason 9 Berkshire Grey Operating Company
#13 Marc X. Olivier 9 Sarcos
#14 Thomas Koletschka 9 Berkshire Grey Operating Company
#15 Christopher S. Hoppe 8 Milwaukee Electric Tool
#16 Clara Vu 8 Veo Robotics
#17 Daniel Smith 8 Berkshire Grey Operating Company
#18 Gene Temple Price 8 Berkshire Grey Operating Company
#19 Harry Zhe Su 8 Dexterity
#20 Jacob P. Schneider 8 Milwaukee Electric Tool
#21 Kevin Ahearn 8 Berkshire Grey Operating Company
#22 Kevin Jose Chavez 8 Dexterity
#23 Kyle Maroney 8 Berkshire Grey Operating Company
#24 Masafumi Ooba 8 Fanuc
#25 Michael Dawson-Haggerty 8 Berkshire Grey Operating Company
#26 Prasanna Velagapudi 8 Berkshire Grey Operating Company
#27 Scott Denenberg 8 Veo Robotics
#28 Siddhartha Srinivasa 8 Berkshire Grey Operating Company
#29 Tetsuaki Kato 8 Fanuc
#30 Thomas Allen 8 Berkshire Grey Operating Company
#31 Aaron S. Blumenthal 7 Milwaukee Electric Tool
#32 Jianxin Pang 7 Ubtech Robotics Corp
#33 Joshua Aaron Lessing 7 Soft Robotics
#34 Lucian Cristache 7 Lucomm Technologies
#35 Talbot Morris-Downing 7 Dexterity
#36 Troy C. Thorson 7 Milwaukee Electric Tool
#37 Alexander Alspach 6 Toyota
#38 Alberto Moel 6 Veo Robotics
#39 Ariyan M. Kabir 6 Graymatter Robotics
#40 Brual C. Shah 6 Graymatter Robotics
#41 Hajime Takeuchi 6 Makita
#42 Masanori Furusawa 6 Makita
#43 Martin Hosek 6 Persimmon Technologies
#44 Masayuki Kamon 6 Kawasaki
#45 Marcus Wechselberger 6 Milwaukee Electric Tool
#46 Michael Paul Rowe 6 Toyota
#47 Ryan Knopf 6 Soft Robotics
#48 Satyandra K. Gupta 6 Graymatter Robotics
#49 Takashi Ueda 6 Cateye Co.
#50 Zheng Xie 6 Ubtech Robotics Corp
#51 Aaron M. Williams 5 Milwaukee Electric Tool
#52 Andrew Crispin Graham 5 Oliver Crispin Robotics Limited
#53 Bala Venkata Sai Ravi Krishna Kolluri 5 Intrinsic Innovation
#54 Benjamin Cohen 5 Berkshire Grey Operating Company
#55 Chia-Yu Chien 5 Basso Industry
#56 Guy Satat 5 X Development
#57 Hans T. Banholzer 5 Milwaukee Electric Tool
#58 Hiroshi Tanaka 5 Fujitsu Limited
#59 Jacob N. Zimmerman 5 Milwaukee Electric Tool
#60 John S. Dey, IV 5 Milwaukee Electric Tool
#61 Jonathan Westin Sykes 5 Altec Industries
#62 Kiyonobu Yoshikane 5 Makita
#63 Liqun Huang 5 Ubtech Robotics Corp
#64 Matthew J. Mergener 5 Milwaukee Electric Tool
#65 Mackenzie J. Nick 5 Milwaukee Electric Tool
#66 Mingguo Zhao 5 Ubtech Robotics Corp
#67 Naveen Suresh Kuppuswamy 5 Toyota
#68 Patrick Sobalvarro 5 Veo Robotics
#69 Rohit Arka Pidaparthi 5 Dexterity
#70 Seyed Mohammad Khansari Zadeh 5 Google
#71 Sergey Levine 5 Google
#72 Steven W. Hyma 5 Milwaukee Electric Tool
#73 Sunho Yang 5 LG
#74 Takashi Satou 5 Fanuc
#75 Tilo Dittrich 5 Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
#76 Timothy J. Mourlam 5 Altec Industries
#77 Xiaoyu Ren 5 Ubtech Robotics Corp
#78 Yunfei Bai 5 Google
#79 Alexander James LONSBERRY 4 Path Robotics
#80 Andrew Gordon LONSBERRY 4 Path Robotics
#81 Andrew Lovett 4 Dexterity
#82 Beom Su Kim 4 Hyundai Motor
#83 Chinbay Q. Fan 4 Illinois Tool Works
#84 Chungin Jung 4 LG
#85 David A. Bierdeman 4 Milwaukee Electric Tool
#86 Damon K. Cox 4 Applied Materials
#87 David Gabriel Hallock 4 Kindred Systems
#88 David Lindquist 4 Altec Industries
#89 Denys Kanunikov 4 Mujin
#90 Dieter Fox 4 NVIDIA
#91 Dong Jin Hyun 4 Hyundai Motor
#92 Erik C. Sobel 4 Toyota
#93 Eulpyo Hong 4 LG
#94 Gregory Coleman 4 Amazon
#95 Guenter Lang 4 Lang Technik Gmbh
#96 Guo-Zhen Wang 4 Disney
#97 Hitoshi Iida 4 Makita
#98 Hiroyuki Yoneyama 4 Fujifilm
#99 Hongyu Ding 4 Ubtech Robotics Corp
#100 Huan Tan 4 GE

Top Companies

Rank ↑ Company ↕ Patents ↕
1 Fanuc 84
2 Milwaukee Electric Tool 81
3 Seiko Epson 56
#4 Makita 52
#5 LG 42
#6 Toyota 32
#7 Robert Bosch Gmbh 31
#8 Black & Decker 28
#9 Google 26
#10 Snap-On Incorporated 25
#11 X Development 22
#12 Intrinsic Innovation 21
#13 Ubtech Robotics Corp 21
#14 Kawasaki 20
#15 Canon 19
#16 Samsung 19
#17 Sony 19
#18 Boston Dynamics 18
#19 Koki Holdings Co. 18
#20 Honda Motor Co. 17
#21 Illinois Tool Works 17
#22 Mujin 17
#23 Dexterity 16
#24 Omron 16
#25 Hilti Aktiengesellschaft 15
#26 The Boeing 15
#27 Amazon 14
#28 Apex Brands 13
#29 Atlas Copco Industrial Technique Ab 13
#30 Berkshire Grey Operating Company 13
#31 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 13
#32 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 13
#33 Abb Schweiz Ag 11
#34 Basso Industry 11
#35 Kabo Tool 11
#36 Unknown 11
#37 Panasonic 11
#38 Hyundai Motor 10
#39 Max Co. 10
#40 Ford 10
#41 Kuka Deutschland Gmbh 9
#42 Intel 9
#43 Applied Materials 8
#44 ITRI 8
#45 Nanjing Chervon Industry Co. 8
#46 Sanctuary Cognitive Systems 8
#47 Sarcos 8
#48 Soft Robotics 8
#49 Veo Robotics 8
#50 GE 8
#51 Intuitive Surgical 7
#52 Lucomm Technologies 7
#53 Techtronic Cordless Gp 7
#54 Uipath 7
#55 Disney 7
#56 General Motors 7
#57 Altec Industries 6
#58 Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S. 6
#59 Irobot 6
#60 Yaskawa Electric 6
#61 Kia 6
#62 Ocado Innovation Limited 6
#63 Persimmon Technologies 6
#64 IBM 6
#65 NVIDIA 6
#66 AMD 5
#67 Brooks Automation Gmbh 5
#68 Globe (Jiangsu) Co. 5
#69 Graymatter Robotics 5
#70 Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Co. 5
#71 Hitachi 5
#72 Korea Institute Of Science And Technology 5
#73 MIT 5
#74 Mitsubishi Electric 5
#75 Mitsubishi Electric 5
#76 Oliver Crispin Robotics Limited 5
#77 Preferred Networks 5
#78 Tata Consultancy Services Limited 5
#79 Techtronic Power Tools Technology Limited 5
#80 Verb Surgical 5
#81 Walmart Apollo 5
#82 Autodesk 4
#83 Bear Robotics 4
#84 Brain 4
#85 Cloudminds Robotics Co. 4
#86 Cmr Surgical Limited 4
#87 Grip Holdings 4
#88 Kia Motors 4
#89 Kinova 4
#90 Kyocera Senco Industrial Tools 4
#91 Lang Technik Gmbh 4
#92 Nimble Robotics 4
#93 Path Robotics 4
#94 Pilz Gmbh & Co. Kg 4
#95 Realtime Robotics 4
#96 Saudi Arabian Oil 4
#97 TSMC 4
#98 Comcast 4
#99 Andreas Stihl Ag & Co. Kg 3
#100 Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 3