IFI CLAIMS^® 2012 Top 50 US Patent Assignees

Rankings were compiled using the USPTO source-data by current company or assignee name on file at the USPTO. IFI uses a rigorous name standardization process to improve the accuracy of our data and portfolio counts for over 5800 patent assignees.

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Rank	Grants	Assignee Name	Country
1	6478	International Business Machines Corp (View Snapshot Report)	United States
2	5081	Samsung Electronics Co Ltd KR	Korea
3	3174	Canon K K JP    (View Snapshot Report)	Japan
4	3032	Sony Corp JP	Japan
5	2769	Panasonic Corp JP	Japan
6	2613	Microsoft Corp	United States
7	2447	Toshiba Corp JP	Japan
8	2013	Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd TW	Taiwan
9	1652	General Electric Co	United States
10	1624	LG Electronics Inc KR	Korea
11	1535	Fujitsu Ltd JP	Japan
12	1461	Seiko Epson Corp JP	Japan
13	1436	Hitachi Ltd JP	Japan
14	1410	Ricoh Co Ltd JP	Japan
15	1394	Hewlett-Packard Development Co L P	United States
16	1377	GM Global Technology Operations LLC	United States
17	1292	QUALCOMM Inc	United States
18	1290	Intel Corp	United States
19	1285	Toyota Jidosha K K JP	Japan
20	1157	Broadcom Corp	United States
21	1151	Google Inc	United States
22	1136	Apple Inc	United States
23	1132	Honda Motor Co Ltd JP	Japan
24	1118	Sharp K K JP	Japan
25	1050	Xerox Corp	United States
26	1039	Renesas Electronics Corp JP	Japan
27	1033	Fujifilm Corp JP	Japan
28	1012	Brother Kogyo K K JP	Japan
29	986	Research In Motion Ltd CA	Canada
30	977	Siemens AG DE	Germany
31	951	Cisco Technology Inc	United States
32	913	Micron Technology Inc	United States
33	886	AT&T Intellectual Property I L P	United States
34	861	Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co Ltd JP	Japan
35	843	Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson SE	Sweden
36	830	Koninklijke Philips Electronics N V NL	Netherlands
37	829	Texas Instruments Inc	United States
38	823	NEC Corp JP	Japan
39	815	Honeywell International Inc	United States
40	782	Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co Ltd CN	China
41	765	Denso Corp JP	Japan
42	748	Bosch, Robert GmbH DE	Germany
43	747	SK Hynix Inc KR	Korea
44	696	Mitsubishi Denki K K JP	Japan
45	686	Fuji Xerox Co Ltd JP	Japan
46	673	Boeing Co The	United States
47	664	Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute KR	Korea
48	650	Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co TW	Taiwan
49	636	Alcatel-Lucent FR	France
50	626	LG Display Co Ltd KR	Korea