List of Top United States Patent Recipients - 2006

2006

1. 3621 patents to IBM, headquartered in Armonk, New York
2. 2451 patents to Samsung Electronics Co., headquartered in Daegu, Korea
3. 2366 patents to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan
4. 2229 patents to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan
5. 2099 patents to Hewlett-Packard, headquartered in Palo Alto, California
6. 1959 patents to Intel Corporation, headquartered in Santa Clara, California
7. 1771 patents to Sony Corporation
8. 1732 patents to Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo
9. 1672 patents to Toshiba Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo
10. 1610 patents to Micron Technology, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, USA