Prolific inventors are a rarity
Looking at the past 20 years of USPTO data, the top 100,000 inventors (top 1.89% of all inventors) generated 3,423,287 patents (62.24% of all patents)....
Patent that took the longest time to get Issued from Filed Date
A patent titled Process for the manufacture and use of pancreatin micropellet cores by Abbvie Pharmaceuticals GMBH was filed on August 15, 2006 and was...
Patent with the most number of Inventors
Patent # 10,367,677, titled Network architecture, methods, and devices for a wireless communications network issued to Ericsson on July 30, 2019, has 133 inventors....
Samsung likely to top IBM in 2022 for issued patents
As of July 5, 2022 Samsung has 3,535 issued patents, compared to IBM’s 2,541 issued patents. Samsung’s been the #2 Assignee since 2009. The last...