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 2nd consecutive year. The list for 2016 is available here. It is based on data obtained from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
