Top 300 Organizations Granted U.S. Patents in 2016

1 Top 300 Organizations Granted Patents in 2016 Are more Patents better? 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 utility Patents is being published by IPO for the 34th consecutive year. It is based on data obtained from the Patent & 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. 30 May 2017 2016 Patent Owners Numerical Listing Use care in interpreting the percent change from 2015 column. The total number of Patents Granted by the USPTO in 2016 was 303,051, up percent from 2015. The percent change for an individual organization could be affected by mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, inconsistent treatment of subsidiaries in 2015 and 2016, and many other factors.

2 Organization Rank Rank Organization Percent Change From 2015 2016 Patents 2016 Patents Percent Change From 2015 8,023 1 International Business Machines Corp. 5,504 2 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 3,865 3 Canon 3,414 4 Intel Corp. 3,267 5 Google, Inc. 3,118 6 Qualcomm, Inc. 2,566 7 General Electric Co. 2,558 8 Microsoft Corp. 2,426 9 LG Electronics Inc. 2,261 10 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 2,168 11 Sony Corp. 2,101 12 Apple, Inc. 2,010 13 Samsung Display Co., Ltd. 1,920 14 Toshiba Corp. 1,662 15 Amazon Technologies, Inc. 1,644 16 Seiko Epson Corp. 1,628 17 Dell Technologies new 1,563 18 Fujitsu Ltd. 1,552 19 Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson 1,540 20 Toyota Jidosha 1,530 21 Ford Global Technologies, LLC 1,482 22 Siemens AG 1,441 23 Medtronic Inc. 1,404 24 Ricoh Co.

3 , Ltd. 1,400 25 Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. 1,360 26 Globalfoundries Inc. 1,266 27 AT&T Corp. 1,198 28 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 1,122 29 Robert Bosch GmbH 1,115 30 GM Global Technology Operations LLC 1,111 31 Koninklijke Philips 1,108 32 SK Hynix Inc. 1,096 33 United Technologies Corp. 1,066 34 Western Digital Corp. 1,054 35 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. 1,052 36 Boeing Co. 1,032 37 Hyundai Motor Co. 1,011 38 Mitsubishi Denki 987 39 Cisco Technology, Inc. 932 40 Johnson & Johnson 926 41 Brother Kogyo 887 42 Texas Instruments, Inc. 882 43 Micron Technology, Inc. 880 44 NEC Corp. 870 45 Honda Motor Co., Ltd. 822 46 Broadcom Corp. 820 47 Honeywell International Inc. 818 48 Sharp Corp. 815 49 BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. 769 50 Blackberry Ltd.

4 762 51 Xerox Corp. 754 52 Verizon 740 53 Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. 737 54 STMicroelectronics, Inc. 705 55 The Dow Chemical Co. 702 56 Denso Corp. 699 57 Fujifilm Corp. 696 58 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. new 695 59 Nokia Technologies Oy 685 60 Schlumberger Technology Corp. 662 61 Oracle International Corp. 660 62 Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute 656 63 HP Inc. new 638 64 LG Display Co., Ltd. 630 65 Marvell Technology Group 618 66 Infineon Technologies AG 615 67 Hewlett Packard Enterprise new 601 68 Applied Materials, Inc. 589 69 Renesas Electronics Corp. 580 70 Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. 565 71 Alcatel Lucent 555 72 Olympus Corp. 549 73 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. 547 74 Monsanto Co. 1 2016 Patent OwnersNumerical Listing Organization Rank Rank Organization 2016 Patents 2016 Patents Percent Change From 2015 Percent Change From 2015 533 75 3M Innovative Properties Co.

5 522 76 Seagate Technology, LLC 513 77 DuPont 512 78 Hitachi, Ltd. new 511 79 Sprint Corp. 505 80 University of California, The Regents of 503 81 Caterpillar Inc. 497 82 SAP AG 493 83 Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 478 84 LG Chem, Ltd. 472 85 ZTE Corp. 468 86 Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 467 87 Japan Display Inc. 459 88 LG Innotek Co., Ltd. 446 89 Konica Minolta, Inc. 442 90 Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives 442 Facebook, Inc. 433 92 Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. 428 93 Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. 423 94 BASF SE 415 95 Nike, Inc. 412 96 Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. 408 97 Baker Hughes Inc. 400 98 ExxonMobil Corp. 397 99 Procter & Gamble Co. 397 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. 394 101 Yazaki Corp. 394 Corning Inc.

6 388 103 Kyocera Corp. 388 Tokyo Electron Ltd. 388 Roche Holdings, Inc. 374 106 Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan 369 107 Raytheon Co. 352 108 Adobe Systems Inc. 350 109 Nvidia Corp. 344 110 Futurewei Technologies, Inc. 342 111 Empire Technology Development LLC 336 112 United States of America, Navy 324 113 Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. 324 United Microelectronics Corp. 317 115 Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. 317 Wistron Corp. 317 ABB Ltd. 311 118 Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. new 306 119 Panasonic Intellectual Property Corp. of America 300 120 Sanofi 290 121 NXP 284 122 Rohm Co., Ltd. 280 123 Mediatek Inc. 279 124 Bank of America Corp. 278 125 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 277 126 TE Connectivity new 274 127 InterDigital Technology Corp.

7 269 128 Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. 265 129 Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. 264 130 Rolls-Royce PLC 260 131 Thomson Licensing 255 132 Becton Dickinson and Co. 251 133 NetApp, Inc. 247 134 International Game Technology 247 Novartis AG 245 136 Juniper Networks, Inc. 244 137 Stanford University 241 138 Cree, Inc. 239 139 Deere & Co. 235 140 Macronix International Co., Ltd. 231 141 Dolby Laboratories, Inc. 228 142 Elwha LLC 225 143 ASML Netherlands 225 Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. 224 145 , Inc. 223 146 Illinois Tool Works Inc. 222 147 AU Optronics Corp. 221 148 Airbus Operations GmbH 221 Casio Computer Co. Ltd. 221 Whirlpool Corp. 215 151 HTC Corp. 215 NTT Docomo, Inc. 214 153 Eaton Corp. 213 154 Nikon Corp. 212 155 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 212 Symantec Corp.

8 211 157 Bally Gaming, Inc. 211 Saint-Gobain Corp. 2 2016 Patent OwnersNumerical Listing Organization Rank Rank Organization 2016 Patents 2016 Patents Percent Change From 2015 Percent Change From 2015 208 159 Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy 207 160 Cook Medical Technologies LLC 207 Nintendo Co., Ltd. 204 162 Shin Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. 203 163 Fanuc Corp. new 203 Hitachi High-Technologies Corp. new 203 Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. 203 Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC 202 167 Red Hat, Inc. 201 168 California Institute of Technology 201 Commscope Technologies LLC new 199 170 Audi AG 199 Nitto Denko Corp. 198 172 Infineon Technologies Austria AG 197 173 Bridgestone Corp. 197 Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. new 197 Merck & Co., Inc. 195 176 Disney Enterprises, Inc. 192 177 Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co.

9 KG 191 178 Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation 191 Stryker Corp. 191 Xperi Corp. new 190 181 Lockheed Martin Corp. 189 182 Avaya Inc. 184 183 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. new 183 184 CA, Inc. 183 Yahoo, Inc. 181 186 Eastman Kodak Co. 179 187 LAM Research Corp. 179 Tsinghua University 179 UOP 178 190 Hitachi Metals Ltd. new 176 191 Ebay Inc. 176 Motorola Solutions, Inc. 173 193 Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. new 172 194 Citrix Systems, Inc. 171 195 Saudi Arabian Oil Co. 171 Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. 170 197 Rambus, Inc. 170 BAE Systems 169 199 Nielsen 168 200 Merck Patent GmbH 168 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation 167 202 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. 167 Johns Hopkins University 166 204 KLA-Tencor Corp. 166 Nestec, 164 206 ZF Friedrichshafen, AG 163 207 Shell Oil Co.

10 162 208 University of Texas 161 209 Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH 160 210 Stats Chippac Pte. Ltd. 159 211 Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. new 156 212 Shimano Inc. 155 213 Daikin Industries Ltd. 155 Thales 155 Xilinx, Inc. 154 216 Airbus Operations 153 217 Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. 153 Koch Industries 152 219 Komatsu Ltd. 152 Pfizer Inc. 151 221 CNH Industrial America LLC 151 Huawei Device Co., Ltd. 151 Jtekt Corp. 151 TDK Corp. 150 225 Kawasaki Jukogyo 149 226 Aktiebolaget SKF 149 Continental Automotive GmbH 148 228 Aisin Seiki 148 Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corp. new 147 230 Echostar Technologies LLC 147 Foxconn Interconnect Technology Ltd. new 147 United States of America, Department of Health & Human Services 146 233 Globus Medical Inc. 146 Nichia Corp.