2010
- 5866 patents to IBM, headquartered in Armonk, New York
- 4518 patents to Samsung Electronics Co., headquartered in Suwon, Korea
- 3086 patents to Microsoft Corporation, headquartered in Redmond, Washington,
- 2551 patents to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan
- 2443 patents to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan
- 2212 patents to Toshiba Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan
- 2130 patents to Sony Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan
- 1652 patents to Intel Corporation, headquartered in Santa Clara, California
- 1488 patents to LG ELECTRONICS INC., headquartered in Seoul, Korea
- 1480 patents to Hewlett-Packard, headquartered in Palo Alto, California
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