August 1, 2023, Weekly Utility Patent Insights

Welcome to the 1st of August 2023: A glimpse at what’s new in weekly utility patent insights on recent patent grants that have been issued across various industries.

Interesting Insights:

1. Utility Patent Volume was 4,886 for the week.
2. Patent Attorney Firm (Fish & Richardson, P.C.) had the most number of patents issued (82 patents).
3. The most prolific Company was SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. with 98 patents.
4. The most prolific city for issued utility patents was San Jose, CA (US) with 179 patents.
5. The most prolific inventor was Tao Luo with 14 patents.- Location: California.- Want to see who’s in their sphere? Visit Tao’s collaboration wheel of co-inventors.
6. The most prolific female inventor was Amrita Mathuriya with 4 patents.- Location: California
7. Added 3,113 new inventors, and 280 new companies.

Top 10 Inventors:

1. Tao Luo, 14 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
2. Xiaoxia Zhang, 8 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
3. Junyi Li, 7 patents – Franklin Park, NJ (US)
4. Jing Sun, 7 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
5. Shunpei Yamazaki, 5 patents – Setagaya, JP
6. Sasikanth Manipatruni, 5 patents – Portland, OR (US)
7. Wooseok Nam, 5 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
8. Assaf Govari, 4 patents – Haifa, IL
9. Yu Zhang, 4 patents – Beijing, CN
10. Ronald Karr, 4 patents – Palo Alto, CA (US)

Top 10 Attorneys:

1. Fish & Richardson P.C., 82 patents
2. Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A., 65 patents
3. Foley & Lardner LLP, 61 patents
4. Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C., 61 patents
5. Sughrue Mion, PLLC, 61 patents
6. Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, 55 patents
7. Cantor Colburn LLP, 54 patents
8. Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P., 51 patents
9. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, 49 patents
10. Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP, 42 patents

Top 10 Companies:

1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., 109 patents
2. TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., 71 patents
3. QUALCOMM Incorporated, 60 patents
4. Apple Inc., 56 patents
5. Micron Technology, Inc., 55 patents
6. Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, 40 patents
7. International Business Machines Corporation, 39 patents
8. Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, 37 patents
9. LG ELECTRONICS INC., 34 patents
10. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., 33 patents

Top 10 Cities:

1. San Jose, CA (US), 179 patents
2. Tokyo, JP, 174 patents
3. Seoul, KR, 158 patents
4. San Francisco, CA (US), 142 patents
5. Sunnyvale, CA (US), 113 patents
6. San Diego, CA (US), 110 patents
7. Beijing, CN, 96 patents
8. Hsinchu, TW, 89 patents
9. Suwon-si, KR, 85 patents
10. Santa Clara, CA (US), 71 patents

Top 10 Countries:

1. United States of America, 2,527 patents
2. Japan, 587 patents
3. China, 382 patents
4. South Korea, 319 patents
5. Taiwan, 225 patents
6. Germany, 213 patents
7. Canada, 148 patents
8. India, 138 patents
9. United Kingdom, 136 patents
10. France, 109 patents