August 29, 2023, Weekly Utility Patent Insights

Welcome to the 29th 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 6,732 for the week.
2. Patent Attorney Firm (Fish & Richardson, P.C.) had the most number of patents issued (116 patents).
3. The most prolific Company was SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. with 130 patents.
4. The most prolific city for issued utility patents was San Jose, CA (US) with 267 patents.
5. The most prolific inventor was Tao Luo with 24 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 11 patents.- Location: California
7. Added 7,208 new inventors, and 344 new companies.

Top 10 Inventors:

1. Tao Luo, 24 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
2. Wanshi Chen, 14 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
3. Peter Gaal, 12 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
4. Yan Zhou, 11 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
5. Navid Abedini, 11 patents – Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
6. Qian Zhang, 9 patents – Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
7. Esmael Hejazi Dinan, 9 patents – McLean, VA (US)
8. Tingfang Ji, 8 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
9. Suckchel Yang, 8 patents – Seoul, KR
10. Yi Huang, 7 patents – San Diego, CA (US)

Top 10 Attorneys:

1. Fish & Richardson P.C., 116 patents
2. Foley & Lardner LLP, 80 patents
3. Sughrue Mion, PLLC, 73 patents
4. Cantor Colburn LLP, 71 patents
5. Oliff PLC, 62 patents
6. Perkins Coie LLP, 61 patents
7. Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P., 60 patents
8. Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A., 58 patents
9. Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear LLP, 55 patents
10. Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP, 54 patents

Top 10 Companies:

1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., 151 patents
2. QUALCOMM Incorporated, 98 patents
3. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 83 patents
4. International Business Machines Corporation, 82 patents
5. Apple Inc., 72 patents
6. LG ELECTRONICS INC., 66 patents
7. SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., 63 patents
8. Micron Technology, Inc., 61 patents
9. CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, 49 patents
10. Google LLC, 46 patents

Top 10 Cities:

1. San Jose, CA (US), 267 patents
2. Seoul, KR, 251 patents
3. Tokyo, JP, 224 patents
4. San Diego, CA (US), 211 patents
5. San Francisco, CA (US), 194 patents
6. Beijing, CN, 156 patents
7. Sunnyvale, CA (US), 134 patents
8. Suwon-si, KR, 117 patents
9. Santa Clara, CA (US), 106 patents
10. Hsinchu, TW, 103 patents

Top 10 Countries:

1. United States of America, 3,485 patents
2. Japan, 809 patents
3. China, 517 patents
4. South Korea, 479 patents
5. Germany, 312 patents
6. Taiwan, 270 patents
7. United Kingdom, 212 patents
8. Canada, 197 patents
9. India, 191 patents
10. France, 160 patents