August 15, 2023, Weekly Utility Patent Insights

Welcome to the 15th 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 6,720 for the week.
2. Patent Attorney Firm (Fish & Richardson, P.C.) had the most number of patents issued (119 patents).
3. The most prolific Company was SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. with 158 patents.
4. The most prolific city for issued utility patents was San Jose, CA (US) with 266 patents.
5. The most prolific inventor was Tao Luo with 38 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 Yan Zhou with 5 patents.- Location: California
7. Added 4,097 new inventors, and 292 new companies.

Top 10 Inventors:

1. Tao Luo, 38 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
2. Junyi Li, 24 patents – Franklin Park, NJ (US)
3. Xiaoxia Zhang, 15 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
4. Jing Sun, 13 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
5. Seyedkianoush Hosseini, 11 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
6. Peter Gaal, 11 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
7. Sony Akkarakaran, 10 patents – Poway, CA (US)
8. Shunpei Yamazaki, 9 patents – Tokyo, JP
9. Wei Yang, 9 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
10. Vasanthan Raghavan, 9 patents – West Windsor Township, NJ (US)

Top 10 Attorneys:

1. Fish & Richardson P.C., 119 patents
2. Foley & Lardner LLP, 91 patents
3. Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A., 83 patents
4. Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C., 77 patents
5. Sughrue Mion, PLLC, 76 patents
6. Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P., 73 patents
7. Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP, 70 patents
8. Cantor Colburn LLP, 66 patents
9. Perkins Coie LLP, 66 patents
10. Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, 59 patents

Top 10 Companies:

1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., 183 patents
2. TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., 126 patents
3. QUALCOMM Incorporated, 108 patents
4. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, 64 patents
5. Samsung Display Co., Ltd., 63 patents
6. Apple Inc., 62 patents
7. Micron Technology, Inc., 61 patents
8. CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, 57 patents
9. GOOGLE LLC, 53 patents
10. LG Electronics Inc., 50 patents

Top 10 Cities:

1. San Jose, CA (US), 266 patents
2. Seoul, KR, 219 patents
3. Tokyo, JP, 200 patents
4. San Francisco, CA (US), 198 patents
5. San Diego, CA (US), 174 patents
6. Hsinchu, TW, 133 patents
7. Sunnyvale, CA (US), 133 patents
8. Suwon-si, KR, 124 patents
9. Beijing, CN, 119 patents
10. Mountain View, CA (US), 116 patents

Top 10 Countries:

1. United States of America, 3,630 patents
2. Japan, 708 patents
3. South Korea, 504 patents
4. China, 405 patents
5. Germany, 329 patents
6. Taiwan, 256 patents
7. Canada, 211 patents
8. United Kingdom, 188 patents
9. India, 179 patents
10. France, 132 patents