IBM Tops U.S. Patent Ranking for 21st Consecutive Year
According to IFI Claims, IBM was assigned a record 6,809 patents in the United States last year, marking the 21st straight year that IBM has topped the inofficial U.S. patent ranking. Google and Apple, often considered the most innovative companies in the world, were ranked 11th and 13th, respectively, both breaking into the Top 20 for the first time.
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This chart ranks the 15 companies that have been granted the most U.S. patents in 2013.
Companies with the most United States patents granted to them in 2024
Ranking of companies with the biggest growth in patents held among the top 50 patent holding companies in the U.S. as of 2012
Number of U.S. patents granted to Apple from 2011 to 2025
Top 20 buyers of U.S. granted patents and applications in 2015
Number of patents in the United States granted to Alphabet Inc. from 2010 to 2024
Ranking of top patent applicant U.S. organizations via the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) in 2020, by number of applications
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