• Mar 29, 2018
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The total number of patents granted by the USPTO in 2017 was 351,406, up 5.3 percent from 2016. The percent change for an individual company could be affected by mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and many other factors. Patents granted to parent and subsidiary companies are combined in many instances. Citius Minds makes reasonable efforts to avoid errors, but cannot guarantee accuracy.

2017 Rank	Company	2017 Grants	2016 Grants	Percent Change From 2016
1	Samsung Group	9,995	10,163	-1.7
2	International Business Machines Corp	9,009	8,063	11.7
3	LG Corp.	4,912	4,548	8.0
4	Canon Kabushiki Kaisha	3,416	3,783	-9.7
5	Intel Corp	3,407	3,001	13.5
6	Google LLC	2,880	3,389	-15.0
7	Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC	2,719	2,954	-8.0
8	Qualcomm Inc.	2,676	3,020	-11.4
9	Apple Inc.	2,572	2,535	1.5
10	Sony Corp	2,530	2,457	3.0
11	Toyota	2,520	1,934	30.3
12	Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) Ltd	2,420	2,287	5.8
13	Toshiba Corp.	2,283	2,298	-0.7
14	General Electric Co	2,200	2,103	4.6
15	Mitsubishi Group	2,178	2,005	8.6
16	Ford	2,029	1,712	18.5
17	Amazon Technologies Inc.	1,987	1,696	17.2
18	Panasonic Corp	1,916	2,088	-8.2
19	Hitachi, Ltd	1793	1892	-5.2
20	Fujitsu Ltd	1,726	1,798	-4.0
21	Huawei Technologies Co Ltd	1,648	1,395	18.1
22	Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson	1,582	1,696	-6.7
23	Hyundai Motor Co	1,532	1,247	22.9
24	Sumitomo Group	1488	1406	5.8
25	Siemens AG	1468	1458	0.7
26	BOE Technology Group Co Ltd	1,432	936	53.0
27	Seiko Epson Corp	1,428	1,663	-14.1
28	Robert Bosch GmbH	1,292	1,297	-0.4
29	GM Global Technology Operations LLC	1,292	1,248	3.5
30	Koninklijke Philips N.V.	1280	1,194	7.2
31	Nike, Inc.	1213	691	75.5
32	Ricoh Co Ltd	1,190	1,451	-18.0
33	AT&T Corp	1184	1191	-0.6
34	Boeing Co	1177	1051	12.0
35	Kyocera	1167	1158	0.8
36	Hewlett Packard Enterprise	1072	1154	-7.1
37	Honda Group	1047	1082	-3.2
38	Xerox Corp.	1046	1227	-14.8
39	Infineon Technologies AG	1026	925	10.9
40	Denso Corp.	997	811	22.9
41	Cisco Technology Inc.	981	990	-0.9
42	Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co Ltd	971	1,075	-9.7
43	SK Hynix Inc.	964	1,127	-14.5
44	Sharp Corp	955	1082	-11.7
45	NXP Semiconductors N.V./Freescale Semiconductor	952	996	-4.4
46	GlobalFoundries Inc.	946	1,489	-36.5
47	NEC Corp	936	1044	-10.3
48	Texas Instruments Inc.	930	909	2.3
49	Honeywell International Inc.	914	705	29.6
50	Nokia Technologies Oy	912	963	-5.3
51	Fujifilm Corp.	827	773	7.0
52	Micron Technology Inc.	798	863	-7.5
53	Micron Technology, Inc.	795	861	-7.7
54	Oracle International Corp	768	700	9.7
55	Brother Industries Ltd	758	956	-20.7
56	Halliburton Energy Services Inc.	743	552	34.6
57	STMicroelectronics, Inc.	734	802	-8.5
58	Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co Ltd	704	495	42.2
59	Dell Technologies	692	567	22.0
60	Facebook Inc.	674	451	49.4
61	3M Innovative Properties Co	673	628	7.2
62	Olympus Corp.	662	604	9.6
63	Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.	661	836	-20.9
64	Airbus Operations GmbH	642	674	-4.7
65	Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd	632	525	20.4
66	Renesas Electronics Corp.	618	599	3.2
67	Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.	616	647	-4.8
68	The Regents of the University of California	601	569	5.6
69	The Dow Chemical Co.	590	545	8.3
70	Medtronic Inc.	587	588	-0.2
71	Konica Minolta, Inc.	575	558	3.0
72	Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute	572	618	-7.4
73	Procter & Gamble Co.	563	501	12.4
74	Japan Display Inc.	552	468	17.9
75	Caterpillar Inc.	551	494	11.5
76	MediaTek Inc.	546	433	26.1
77	Nissan Motor Company Ltd	544	508	7.1
78	Corning Inc.	531	430	23.5
79	Applied Materials, Inc.	529	523	1.1
80	Blackberry Ltd	518	791	-34.5
81	BASF SE	518	548	-5.5
82	Verizon	512	604	-15.2
83	Baker Hughes Inc.	510	408	25.0
84	United Technologies Corp.	493	365	35.1
85	Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives	485	489	-0.8
86	SAP AG	473	513	-7.8
87	Seagate Technology, LLC	463	510	-9.2
88	DuPont	459	492	-6.7
89	Alcatel Lucent	451	582	-22.5
90	ABB Group	444	427	4.0
91	ZTE Corp	441	514	-14.2
92	Schlumberger Technology Corp.	439	452	-2.9
93	Monsanto Co	439	466	-5.8
94	Avago Technologies	429	323	32.8
95	Marvell Technology Group	420	633	-33.6
96	Sprint Corp.	386	498	-22.5
97	Tencent Technology Company Limited	370	378	-2.1
98	Yazaki Corp	366	408	-10.3
99	Rolls-Royce Holdings	360	268	34.3
100	ROHM Semiconductor	356	343	3.8

This list of organizations that received the most U.S. utility patents is being published by Citius Minds for the 2^nd consecutive year. The list for 2016 is available here. It is based on data obtained from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.