Rating of 50 companies that received the largest number of patents in 2012

Published rating of 50 companies that received at the end of last year, the largest number of patents in the United States. In total, in 2012, the Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued 253,155 patents.

Which companies were the most inventive?



The largest number of companies in the Top 50 represent the Asian region (26 companies). The second largest region is the USA with 17 companies.
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For the twentieth year in a row, IBM remained the leader in the number of inventions, 6,478 patents were registered in the name of the corporation and its researchers, which is 5% more than in 2011. Samsung ranks second in the rating, having received 5,081 patents. Canon closes the top three with a result of 3174. Sony is in fourth place with a growth of almost 33% compared to 2011. Panasonic and Microsoft are in fifth and sixth places respectively.

For the first time, Google got into the list, having registered 1,151 patents (21st place). Google is immediately followed by Apple, which has 1,136 patents.

A place	Patents	Company	A country
one	6478	International Business Machines Corp	USA
2	5081	Samsung Electronics Co Ltd KR	Korea
3	3174	Canon KK JP	Japan
four	3032	Sony Corp JP	Japan
five	2769	Panasonic Corp JP	Japan
6	2613	Microsoft Corp	USA
7	2447	Toshiba Corp JP	Japan
eight	2013	Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd TW	Taiwan
9	1652	General Electric Co	USA
ten	1624	LG Electronics Inc KR	Korea
eleven	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 LP	USA
sixteen	1377	GM Global Technology Operations LLC	USA
17	1292	QUALCOMM Inc	USA
18	1290	Intel Corp	USA
nineteen	1285	Toyota Jidosha KK JP	Japan
20	1157	Broadcom corp	USA
21	1151	Google inc	USA
22	1136	Apple Inc	USA
23	1132	Honda Motor Co Ltd JP	Japan
24	1118	Sharp KK JP	Japan
25	1050	Xerox Corp	USA
26	1039	Renesas Electronics Corp JP	Japan
27	1033	Fujifilm Corp JP	Japan
28	1012	Brother Kogyo KK JP	Japan
29	986	Research In Motion Ltd CA	Canada
thirty	977	Siemens AG DE	Germany
31	951	Cisco Technology Inc	USA
32	913	Micron Technology Inc	USA
33	886	AT & T Intellectual Property ILP	USA
34	861	Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co JP	Japan
35	843	Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson SE	Sweden
36	830	Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV NL	Netherlands
37	829	Texas Instruments Inc	USA
38	823	NEC Corp JP	Japan
39	815	Honeywell International Inc	USA
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 KK JP	Japan
45	686	Fuji Xerox Co Ltd JP	Japan
46	673	Boeing co the	USA
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

Patents obtained by IBM in 2012 include inventions that will lead to fundamental breakthroughs in key areas for the company, including analytics, Big Data, cybersecurity, cloud technologies, mobile communications, social networks and virtual environments. , as well as in industry solutions for retail, banking, healthcare and transport:

• US Patent No. 8,275,803: System and Method for Forming Answers to Questions. This patented invention has been applied in the IBM Watson system and describes a technology that allows a computer to take questions in natural language, fully understand them, and give accurate answers.
• US Patent No. 8250010: Electronic self-learning synapse with peak-time-dependent synaptic plasticity and using unipolar memory switching elements. This patent describes the algorithms and schemes for effectively simulating the ability of the synapse of the human brain to learn and lays the foundation for the creation of computer architecture, not based on the principles of von Neumann. IBM is working on a cognitive computing project called Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE), which aims to emulate the brain's ability to perceive information, perform actions, and learn by receiving signals of lesser amplitude and power, without programming.
• US Patent No. 8185480: A system and method for optimizing pattern detection using non-Gaussian parameters. This patent describes technology related to patterns and their recognition in fast-growing, large data sets with complex information, such as speech recognition or satellite data processing in order to predict traffic jams.
• US Patent No. 8,200,501: Methods, systems, and computer programs for combining information about medical procedures in databases of health facilities. This invention describes a technology that allows physicians to more efficiently obtain and analyze medical data and records stored in several different data sources, which improves their ability to research, diagnose and treat diseases.
• U.S. Patent No. 8,293,178: Simplified Deployment Modeling and No. 8332873: Dynamically Placing an Application Instance in a Datacenter Environment. These patented inventions describe a virtual software environment consisting of a modeling platform for describing application components along with their requirements and characteristics, and an intelligent control system for dynamically deploying, updating and managing working instances. The inventions enable the IBM PureSystems family of products to use repetitive patterns for faster deployment and optimized management of the life cycle of application workflows.
• US Patent No. 8341441: Reducing Power Consumption in Cloud Computing Environments. This patented invention describes a technology that enables more efficient use of cloud computing system resources, which helps minimize power consumption.
• US Patent No. 8247261: Production of thin-film substrates by chipping the substrate under stress. This patent describes an affordable way to produce a new class of flexible semiconductor materials that will be the basis for ultrathin, lightweight and flexible products with a wide range of possible applications, such as biomedicine, security, wearable computers and LED lighting systems.
• US Patent No. 8302173: Providing a set of access codes to a user device. This invention describes a method of checking and receiving one or more security codes — valid for a short period of time to increase security — via a mobile network (eg SMS) and a separate encrypted channel from a secure server, which can be used, for example, to perform secure transactions or secure logon from mobile phone.

Examples of other interesting and important inventions IBM, patented in 2012, can be viewed here .