Top 300 Organizations Granted U.S. Patents in 2017

Top 300 Organizations Granted U.S. Patents in 2017

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IPO does not attempt to answer the question above. IPO publishes patent owner lists as an information service for IPO members. This list of organizations that received the most U.S. utility patents is being published by IPO for the 35th consecutive year. It is based on data obtained from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Patents granted to parent and subsidiary companies are combined in many instances. See the end notes for more information. IPO makes reasonable efforts to avoid errors, but cannot guarantee accuracy.

18 June 2018

2017 Patent Owners

Numerical Listing

Use care in interpreting the "percent change from 2016" column. The total number of patents granted by the USPTO in 2017 was 318,829, up 5 percent from 2016. The percent change for an individual organization could be affected by mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, inconsistent treatment of subsidiaries in 2016 and 2017, and many other factors.

Rank

Organization

1 International Business Machines Corp.

2 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

3 Intel Corp.

4 Canon K.K.

5 Alphabet Inc.

6 General Electric Co.

7 Qualcomm, Inc.

8 LG Electronics Inc.

9 Microsoft Corp.

10 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

11 Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

12 Apple, Inc.

13 Sony Corp.

14 Toyota Jidosha K.K.

15 Amazon Technologies, Inc.

16 Toshiba Corp.

17 Ford Global Technologies, LLC

18 Dell Technologies

19 Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson

20 Siemens AG

21 Fujitsu Ltd.

22 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

23 United Technologies Corp.

24 Medtronic Inc.

25 Seiko Epson Corp.

26 Nokia Corp.

27 BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.

28 Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

29 Hyundai Motor Co.

30 AT&T Corp.

31 Boeing Co.

32 Robert Bosch GmbH

33 Johnson & Johnson

34 Mitsubishi Denki K.K.

35 Ricoh Co., Ltd.

36 GM Global Technology Operations LLC

37 Honeywell International Inc.

2017 Patents

8,996

5,810 3,726 3,664 3,065 2,989 2,728 2,696 2,601 2,408

2,266 2,225 2,116 2,015 1,960 1,891 1,876 1,681 1,551

1,538 1,531 1,472 1,423 1,414 1,404 1,381 1,376

1,338

1,295 1,263 1,171 1,158 1,147 1,142 1,140 1,063

1,036

Percent Change From 2016

10.8

5.3 8.4 -5.5 new 14.2 -14.3 10.0 1.7 6.1

11.3 5.6 -2.5

23.6 15.2 -1.5 18.4

3.2 -0.1

3.6 -2.1 18.6 23.0 -1.9 -17.1 new 40.8

-4.6

20.3 -0.2 10.2 3.1 18.7 11.5 -23.2 -4.9

20.8

Rank

Organization

Percent

2017

Change

Patents From 2016

38 Cisco Technology, Inc. 39 Koninklijke Philips N.V.

Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. 41 SK Hynix Inc. 42 Texas Instruments, Inc.

989

0.2

973

-14.2

973

-8.3

938

-18.1

923

3.9

43 Denso Corp. 44 Honda Motor Co., Ltd. 45 Western Digital Corp. 46 NEC Corp. 47 Micron Technology, Inc. 48 Globalfoundries Inc.

863

18.7

854

-1.9

837

-27.4

816

-7.8

807

-9.3

782

-73.9

49 The Dow Chemical Co. 50 Oracle International Corp. 51 Halliburton Energy

Services, Inc. 52 Verizon

765

7.8

753

12.1

738

25.6

715

-5.5

53 Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.

709

30.5

54 Brother Kogyo K.K.

705

-31.3

55 Fujifilm Corp.

691

-1.2

56 Schlumberger Technology Corp.

680

-0.7

57 Sharp Corp.

679

-20.5

58 Infineon Technologies AG 59 STMicroelectronics, Inc. 60 Facebook, Inc. 61 LG Chem., Ltd. 62 Kyocera Document

Solutions Inc. 63 HP Inc.

677

8.7

675

-9.2

660

33.0

634

24.6

632

-17.1

630

-4.1

64 Olympus Corp. 65 LG Display Co., Ltd.

613

9.5

604

-5.6

66 3M Innovative Properties Co.

602

11.5

NXP USA, Inc.

602

new

68 Renesas Electronics Corp. 69 Caterpillar Inc.

601

2.0

595

15.5

70 Applied Materials, Inc.

71 Xerox Corp.

72 Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

590

-1.9

586

-30.0

585

-12.8

73 Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

569

-1.9



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2017 Patent Owners Numerical Listing

Rank

Organization

74 Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

75 Japan Display Inc.

76 Corning Inc.

77 University of California, The Regents of

78 SAP AG

79 LG Innotek Co., Ltd.

80 Kyocera Corp.

81 Blackberry Ltd.

82 Hewlett Packard Enterprise

83 Konica Minolta, Inc.

84 Hitachi, Ltd.

85 Procter & Gamble Co.

86 DuPont

87 Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives

88 Seagate Technology, LLC

89 Monsanto Technology, LLC

90 Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

91 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

92 BASF SE

93 ZTE Corp.

94 Tokyo Electron Ltd.

95 Mediatek Inc.

96 Becton Dickinson and Co.

Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.

98 Sprint Corp.

99 Nike, Inc.

100 Rolls-Royce PLC

101 Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

102 Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd.

United States of America, Navy

104 United Microelectronics Corp.

105 Yazaki Corp.

106 Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

107 Dolby Laboratories, Inc.

108 ExxonMobil Corp.

109 Raytheon Co.

110 Adobe Systems Inc.

111 Deere & Co.

112 Roche Holdings, Inc.

113 Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

114 Empire Technology Development LLC

Philips Lighting Holding B.V.

2017 Patents

563 553 547 524

521 520 509 506 505 495 491 469 465 458

457 434 431

427

415 407 403 398 397 397 391 372 359 357 354

354 351 349 345 344 339 336 334 328 323 320 314

314

Percent Change From 2016

16.9 15.6 28.0

3.6

4.6 11.7 23.8 -52.0 -21.8

9.9 -4.3 15.4 -10.3 3.5

-14.2 -26.0 24.8

7.0

-1.9 -16.0

3.7 29.6 35.8 -9.1 -30.7 -11.6 26.5 11.2 25.1

5.1 7.7 -12.9 0.3 32.8 -18.0 -9.8 -5.4 27.1 -20.1 2.8 -8.9

new

Rank

Organization

116 Industrial Technology

Research Institute, Taiwan

117 Koch Industries

118 Massachusetts Institute

of Technology

119 TE Connectivity

120 Fanuc Corp.

121 NXP B.V.

122 Elwha LLC

123 InterDigital Technology Corp. 124 Bayer Intellectual

Property GmbH 125 Bank of America Corp.

126 Rohm Co., Ltd. 127 Sanofi

Whirlpool Corp.

129 Samsung ElectroMechanics Co., Ltd.

130 Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

Nvidia Corp.

132 CNH Industrial America LLC

133 Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG

135 Commscope Technologies LLC 136 Novartis AG 137 Juniper Networks, Inc.

138 Eaton Corp. 139 Sumitomo Electric

Industries, Ltd. 140 Illinois Tool Works Inc.

141 Stryker Corp.

142 ABB Ltd.

NetApp, Inc.

144 Infineon Technologies Austria AG

Thomson Licensing S.A.

146 Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. Saint-Gobain Corp.

Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation

149 Marvell International Ltd. 150 Disney Enterprises, Inc.

151 ASML Netherlands B.V. Audi AG

153 Ebay Inc.

154 University of Texas

155 Saudi Arabian Oil Co.

2017 Patents

312

Percent Change From 2016

-19.9

310

50.6

306

9.2

301

8.0

299

32.1

296

2.0

294

22.4

291

5.8

290

52.4

288

3.1

286

0.7

284

-5.6

284

22.2

281

-46.6

279

19.4

279

-25.4

272

44.5

271

-57.9

271

29.2

270

25.6

262

5.7

259

5.4

257

16.7

255

-5.5

250

10.8

244

21.7

243

-30.5

243

-3.3

242

18.2

242

-7.4

235

16.2

235

10.2

235

18.7

231

new

227

14.1

223

-0.9

223

10.8

220

20.0

219

26.0

218

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2017 Patent Owners Numerical Listing

Rank

Organization

156 Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC

157 Symantec Corp.

158 Nikon Corp.

159 , Inc.

Shin Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.

161 Casio Computer Co. Ltd.

Cree, Inc.

Merck Patent GmbH

Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

165 CA, Inc.

Stanford University

Sun Patent Trust

Xperi Corp.

169 Merck & Co., Inc.

170 Paypal. Inc.

171 LAM Research Corp.

172 Airbus Operations GmbH

HTC Corp.

174 Nichia Corp.

175 ARM Ltd.

Avaya Inc.

177 TDK Corp.

178 Komatsu Ltd.

179 KLA-Tencor Corp.

NTT Docomo, Inc.

Red Hat, Inc.

182 Continental Automotive GmbH

Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.

184 Wistron Corp.

185 Cook Medical Technologies LLC

186 Hitachi HighTechnologies Corp.

187 Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH

188 Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.

189 Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corp.

190 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

192 Thales

193 Aktiebolaget SKF

194 Bally Gaming, Inc.

Tsinghua University

196 Bayerische Motoren Werke AG

197 Echostar Technologies LLC

Rockwell Collins, Inc.

199 Bridgestone Corp.

2017 Patents

217

214 212 211 211 206 206 206 206 204 204 204 204 203 202 201 200 200 196 195 195 194 193 192 192 192 189 189 187 186

185

184

183 182

179 179

178 177 176 176 174 172 172 171

Percent Change From 2016

6.5

0.9 -0.5 -6.2 3.3 -7.3 -17.0 18.4 new 10.3 -19.6 42.2 6.4 3.0 27.7 10.9 -10.5 -7.5 25.5 40.5 3.1 22.2 21.2 13.5 -12.0 -5.2 21.2 9.5 -69.5 -11.3

-9.7

12.5

24.6 18.7

-2.8 21.2

12.9 15.8 -19.9 -1.7 28.2 14.5 21.5 -15.2

Rank

Organization

Lockheed Martin Corp.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corp. of America

202 Nitto Denko Corp.

203 LSIS Co., Ltd.

204 Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.

205 King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Mahle International GmbH

207 Johns Hopkins University

208 Ecolab USA Inc.

209 Airbus Operations S.A.S.

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

Foxconn Interconnect Technology Ltd.

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

213 Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Rambus, Inc.

215 Cooper Technologies Co.

216 Hitachi Metals Ltd.

IGT

218 Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.

219 AU Optronics Corp.

Harvard College, President and Fellows

221 Daikin Industries Ltd.

222 BAE Systems

Syngenta Participations AG

224 Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.

225 Accenture Global Services Ltd.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp.

227 Aisin Seiki K.K.

Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH

Shimadzu Corp.

230 California Institute of Technology

Chevron USA Inc.

Globus Medical Inc.

Marvell World Trade Ltd.

Nielsen

235 L'Oreal S.A.

Panasonic Corp.

237 Here Global B.V.

Omron Corp.

Synaptics, Inc.

2017 Patents

171 171

Percent Change From 2016

-11.1 -78.9

170

-17.1

169

30.8

168

new

167

new

167

26.9

164

-1.8

163

14.7

162

4.9

162

new

162

9.3

162

-3.7

161

-28.6

161

-5.6

159

15.7

158

-12.7

158

-56.3

157

2.5

156

-42.3

156

new

155

0.0

154

-10.4

154

16.9

153

-3.9

152

3.9

152

new

151

2.0

151

15.2

151

14.6

150

-34.0

150

14.0

150

2.7

150

new

150

-12.7

149

23.5

149

2.7

148

19.6

148

10.8

148

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2017 Patent Owners Numerical Listing

Rank

Organization

240 Macronix International Co., Ltd.

Shimano Inc.

ZF Friedrichshafen, AG

243 Kobe Steel, Ltd.

244 Delta Electronics Inc.

Jtekt Corp.

246 Innolux Corp.

247 Evonik Degussa GmbH

Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho K.K.

United States of America, Army

250 Borgwarner Inc.

Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K.

252 Acushnet Co.

Bose Corp.

Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin

255 Nuance Communications, Inc.

256 Analog Devices, Inc.

Xiaomi Inc.

258 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Hyundai Mobis, Co., Ltd.

260 Nestec, S.A.

Open Invention Network, LLC

Toray Industries Inc.

263 Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp.

Xilinx, Inc.

265 Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd.

Sonos, Inc.

267 Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

United States of America, Department of Health & Human Services

269 Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

271 Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Citrix Systems, Inc.

Huawei Device Co., Ltd.

Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.

275 Colgate-Palmolive Co.

Excalibur IP, LLC

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Rovi Guides, Inc.

University of Michigan

280 Ciena Corp.

NTN Corp.

2017 Patents

147 147 147 145 144 144 143 142 142

142 141 141 140 140 140

139 138 138 137 137 136 136 136 134

134 133 133 132

132

130 130

129 129 129 129 128 128 128 128 128 127 127

Percent Change From 2016

-59.9 -6.1

-11.6 13.8

8.3 -4.9 new new new

4.2 new -6.4 10.0 new 19.3

4.3 2.2 new -54.7 13.9 -22.1 11.8 5.1 -30.6

-15.7 new new -0.8

-11.4

new -56.2

14.0 -33.3 -17.1 10.1 new new -37.5 new -10.9 new

2.4

Rank

Organization

282 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS

Cypress Semiconductor Corp.

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.

285 Qorvo US, Inc.

286 Arris Enterprises, LLC

T-Mobile, USA, Inc.

UOP

289 Delphi Technologies, Inc.

HRL Laboratories, LLC

291 Broadcom Corp.

Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.

293 Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.

294 United States of America, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

295 DSM IP Assets B.V.

NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.

University of South Florida

298 Acer Inc.

General Hospital Corp.

Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.

JFE Steel Corp.

Smith & Nephew, Inc.

2017 Patents

126

126 126 125 124 124 124 121 121 119 119

118

117

116 116 116 115 115 115 115 115

Percent Change From 2016

-1.6

-32.5 4.0 new 8.9 new

-44.4 new 4.1 -590.8 -3.4

-6.8

1.7

-24.1 -6.0 1.7 4.3 new

-18.3 new -85.2

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