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Top 50 Companies by US Patent Grants

The 50 most prolific corporate holders of US utility patents granted 2015–2025, rendered live from the ingested PatentsView dataset.

50
Companies ranked
106,890
Grants · #1 Samsung
46.2%
Held by the top 10
2015–25
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The verdict

It takes about 7,359 granted patents to crack the 50 largest US holders, and the top 10 alone hold 46.2% of this list's volume.

Samsung
#1 - 106,890 grants
7,359
patents to make the top 50
46.2%
held by the top 10 of this list
50
companies ranked

The 15 largest corporate patent holders

Granted US utility patents, 2015–2025, wider bars mean more grants

patents

What this shows Samsung and International Busines… anchor a field dominated by electronics and semiconductor multinationals. The top 10 companies alone hold 46.2% of all patents in this top-50 list, a concentration that reflects how capital-intensive R&D and large in-house attorney teams compound patent output.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025 grant years

Who holds the most US patents?

This ranking aggregates US utility patent grants assigned to companies from 2015 through 2025, drawn from the USPTO PatentsView dataset ingested into PlainPatent. The top 10 companies account for 46.2% of top-50 patent volume, concentration is high among electronics and semiconductor leaders. Every row renders live from the companies table, so the values cannot drift from the current ingested DB state.

Top 10 companies by US patent grants

# Company Patent grantsTotal claimsTop CPC class
1 Samsung 106,890 1,718,963 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
2 International Busines… 72,926 1,141,621 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
3 Canon 34,378 518,660 PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
4 Lg 32,607 393,178 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
5 Taiwan Semiconductor… 31,041 612,371 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
6 Apple 30,560 583,191 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
7 Qualcomm Incorporated 30,354 882,882 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
8 Intel 27,498 550,848 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
9 Microsoft Technology… 24,392 470,775 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
10 Google 24,290 442,862 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING

Top 50 ranking (full list)

Show all 50 companies (rendered live from current DB)
# Company Patent grants Top CPC
1 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 106,890 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
2 International Business Machines Corporation 72,926 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
3 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 34,378 PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
4 LG Electronics Inc. 32,607 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
5 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. 31,041 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
6 Apple Inc. 30,560 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
7 Qualcomm Incorporated 30,354 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
8 Intel Corporation 27,498 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
9 Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc 24,392 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
10 Google Llc 24,290 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
11 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 23,942 TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
12 Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha 21,526 CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
13 SONY Group Corporation 20,593 PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
14 Amazon Technologies, Inc. 20,125 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
15 Ford Global Technologies, Llc 18,527 CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
16 BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. 18,263 ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
17 Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) 15,598 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
18 Micron Technology, Inc. 15,200 STATIC STORES
19 Mitsubishi Electric Corporation 15,053 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
20 Hyundai Motor Company 15,033 CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
21 General Electric Company 14,436 INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
22 Seiko Epson Corporation 14,235 TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
23 Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. 13,148 PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
24 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 12,848 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
25 Honda Motor Co., Ltd. 12,454 CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
26 The Boeing Company 11,922 EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT
27 Robert Bosch Gmbh 11,869 CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
28 GM Global Technology Operations Llc 11,736 CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
29 NIKE, Inc. 10,487 CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
30 Cisco Technology, Inc. 10,299 TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
31 Ricoh Company, Ltd. 10,223 PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
32 Dell Products L.p. 10,222 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
33 Texas Instruments Incorporated 9,915 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
34 SK Hynix Inc. 9,830 STATIC STORES
35 NEC Corporation 9,672 TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
36 Fujitsu Limited 9,654 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
37 Koniniklijke Philips N.v. 9,647 DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
38 AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.p. 9,554 TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
39 Denso Corporation 9,480 CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TO THE
40 Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. 8,656 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
41 Fujifilm Corporation 8,518 OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
42 LG Display Co., Ltd. 8,410 ORGANIC ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES
43 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 8,041 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
44 Tencent Technology (shenzhen) Company Limited 8,039 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
45 Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 8,029 IMPEDANCE NETWORKS, e.g. RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS
46 Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha 7,931 TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
47 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. 7,844 INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
48 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. 7,827 EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
49 Korea Advanced Institute OF Science AND Technology 7,452 TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
50 EMC IP Holding Company Llc 7,359 ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING

How to use this ranking

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Rankings reflect granted US utility patents 2015–2025 from USPTO PatentsView; grants lag filing by 2–3 years and exclude design, plant, and foreign patents. Volume measures filing activity, not commercial value or legal strength.

Methodology

Counts are pre-aggregated from PatentsView bulk data (granted utility patents 2015-2025) by the PlainPatent ETL pipeline. Assignee names are normalized via PatentsView disambiguation tables and assigned to primary owners. Co-assigned patents are resolved by grant share. The page renders SSR-from-DB so the leaderboard always reflects the latest ingested snapshot. Read the full methodology →

Caveats and limitations

Assignee normalization may miss some post-grant transfers. Grants lag filing by 2-3 years, so 2025 may be undercounted. Provisional, design, and plant patents are excluded. Family-level duplicates may inflate aggregates. Data is static between ETL runs; real-time USPTO updates may shift rankings by 1-2%.

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