Top 300 Organizations Granted U.S. Patents in 2017

1 Top 300 Organizations Granted Patents in 2017 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 35th consecutive year. It is based on data obtained from the 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.

2 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. Organization Rank Rank Organization Percent Change From 2016 2017 Patents 2017 Patents Percent Change From 2016 8,996 1 International Business Machines Corp. 5,810 2 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 3,726 3 Intel Corp. 3,664 4 Canon 3,065 5 Alphabet Inc. new 2,989 6 General Electric Co. 2,728 7 Qualcomm, Inc. 2,696 8 LG Electronics Inc. 2,601 9 Microsoft Corp. 2,408 10 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 2,266 11 Samsung Display Co., Ltd. 2,225 12 Apple, Inc. 2,116 13 Sony Corp. 2,015 14 Toyota Jidosha 1,960 15 Amazon Technologies, Inc.

3 1,891 16 Toshiba Corp. 1,876 17 Ford Global Technologies, LLC 1,681 18 Dell Technologies 1,551 19 Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson 1,538 20 Siemens AG 1,531 21 Fujitsu Ltd. 1,472 22 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 1,423 23 United Technologies Corp. 1,414 24 Medtronic Inc. 1,404 25 Seiko Epson Corp. 1,381 26 Nokia Corp. new 1,376 27 BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. 1,338 28 Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. 1,295 29 Hyundai Motor Co. 1,263 30 AT&T Corp. 1,171 31 Boeing Co. 1,158 32 Robert Bosch GmbH 1,147 33 Johnson & Johnson 1,142 34 Mitsubishi Denki 1,140 35 Ricoh Co., Ltd. 1,063 36 GM Global Technology Operations LLC 1,036 37 Honeywell International Inc. 989 38 Cisco Technology, Inc.

4 973 39 Koninklijke Philips 973 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. 938 41 SK Hynix Inc. 923 42 Texas Instruments, Inc. 863 43 Denso Corp. 854 44 Honda Motor Co., Ltd. 837 45 Western Digital Corp. 816 46 NEC Corp. 807 47 Micron Technology, Inc. 782 48 Globalfoundries Inc. 765 49 The Dow Chemical Co. 753 50 Oracle International Corp. 738 51 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. 715 52 Verizon 709 53 Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 705 54 Brother Kogyo 691 55 Fujifilm Corp. 680 56 Schlumberger Technology Corp. 679 57 Sharp Corp. 677 58 Infineon Technologies AG 675 59 STMicroelectronics, Inc. 660 60 Facebook, Inc. 634 61 LG Chem., Ltd. 632 62 Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

5 630 63 HP Inc. 613 64 Olympus Corp. 604 65 LG Display Co., Ltd. 602 66 3M Innovative Properties Co. 602 NXP USA, Inc. new 601 68 Renesas Electronics Corp. 595 69 Caterpillar Inc. 590 70 Applied Materials, Inc. 586 71 Xerox Corp. 585 72 Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute 569 73 Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. 1 2017 Patent Owners Numerical Listing Organization Rank Rank Organization 2017 Patents 2017 Patents Percent Change From 2016 Percent Change From 2016 563 74 Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 553 75 Japan Display Inc. 547 76 Corning Inc. 524 77 University of California, The Regents of 521 78 SAP AG 520 79 LG Innotek Co., Ltd. 509 80 Kyocera Corp. 506 81 Blackberry Ltd. 505 82 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 495 83 Konica Minolta, Inc.

6 491 84 Hitachi, Ltd. 469 85 Procter & Gamble Co. 465 86 DuPont 458 87 Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives 457 88 Seagate Technology, LLC 434 89 Monsanto Technology, LLC 431 90 Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. 427 91 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. 415 92 BASF SE 407 93 ZTE Corp. 403 94 Tokyo Electron Ltd. 398 95 Mediatek Inc. 397 96 Becton Dickinson and Co. 397 Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. 391 98 Sprint Corp. 372 99 Nike, Inc. 359 100 Rolls-Royce PLC 357 101 Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. 354 102 Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. 354 United States of America, Navy 351 104 United Microelectronics Corp. 349 105 Yazaki Corp. 345 106 Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

7 344 107 Dolby Laboratories, Inc. 339 108 ExxonMobil Corp. 336 109 Raytheon Co. 334 110 Adobe Systems Inc. 328 111 Deere & Co. 323 112 Roche Holdings, Inc. 320 113 Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. 314 114 Empire Technology Development LLC 314 Philips Lighting Holding new 312 116 Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan 310 117 Koch Industries 306 118 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 301 119 TE Connectivity 299 120 Fanuc Corp. 296 121 NXP 294 122 Elwha LLC 291 123 InterDigital Technology Corp. 290 124 Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH 288 125 Bank of America Corp. 286 126 Rohm Co., Ltd. 284 127 Sanofi 284 Whirlpool Corp. 281 129 Samsung Electro- Mechanics Co., Ltd. 279 130 Fuji Electric Co.

8 , Ltd. 279 Nvidia Corp. 272 132 CNH Industrial America LLC 271 133 Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. 271 Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG 270 135 Commscope Technologies LLC 262 136 Novartis AG 259 137 Juniper Networks, Inc. 257 138 Eaton Corp. 255 139 Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. 250 140 Illinois Tool Works Inc. 244 141 Stryker Corp. 243 142 ABB Ltd. 243 NetApp, Inc. 242 144 Infineon Technologies Austria AG 242 Thomson Licensing 235 146 Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. 235 Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation 235 Saint-Gobain Corp. 231 149 Marvell International Ltd. new 227 150 Disney Enterprises, Inc. 223 151 ASML Netherlands 223 Audi AG 220 153 Ebay Inc.

9 219 154 University of Texas 218 155 Saudi Arabian Oil Co. 2 2017 Patent Owners Numerical Listing Organization Rank Rank Organization 2017 Patents 2017 Patents Percent Change From 2016 Percent Change From 2016 217 156 Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC 214 157 Symantec Corp. 212 158 Nikon Corp. 211 159 , Inc. 211 Shin Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. 206 161 Casio Computer Co. Ltd. 206 Cree, Inc. 206 Merck Patent GmbH 206 Skyworks Solutions, Inc. new 204 165 CA, Inc. 204 Stanford University 204 Sun Patent Trust 204 Xperi Corp. 203 169 Merck & Co., Inc. 202 170 Paypal. Inc. 201 171 LAM Research Corp. 200 172 Airbus Operations GmbH 200 HTC Corp. 196 174 Nichia Corp. 195 175 ARM Ltd. 195 Avaya Inc.

10 194 177 TDK Corp. 193 178 Komatsu Ltd. 192 179 KLA-Tencor Corp. 192 NTT Docomo, Inc. 192 Red Hat, Inc. 189 182 Continental Automotive GmbH 189 Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. 187 184 Wistron Corp. 186 185 Cook Medical Technologies LLC 185 186 Hitachi High- Technologies Corp. 184 187 Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH 183 188 Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. 182 189 Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corp. 179 190 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. 179 Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. 178 192 Thales 177 193 Aktiebolaget SKF 176 194 Bally Gaming, Inc. 176 Tsinghua University 174 196 Bayerische Motoren Werke AG 172 197 Echostar Technologies LLC 172 Rockwell Collins, Inc. 171 199 Bridgestone Corp.