June 4, 2024, Weekly Patents Insights

Welcome to the 4th of June 2024: A glimpse at what’s new in weekly patents insights on recent patent grants that have been issued across various industries.

New weekly (June 4, 2024) USPTO Patents data have been added.

Patent Volume was 7,194 for the week, including 6,448 Utility, 734 Design, and 12 Plant Patents.

Most Prolific

Company	Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd	133 patents
Patent Attorney	Fish & Richardson, P.C.	112 patents
City	Tokyo, JP	263 patents
Female Inventor	Li Zhang (Bytedance), San Diego, CA	8 patents
Inventor	Hany Mohamed Abd El-Lateef Ahmed (King Faisal University), Hofouf, SA	17 patents

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Trivia

What is the longest patent granted by the USPTO since 1976?

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Today in Patent History

On June 4, 1963 Patent No. 3,091,888 was granted to 6-year-old Robert Patch for a toy truck.

Featured Inventor

Today we feature Sarbajit Rakshit, the 19th most prolific inventor in the world (in utility patents). He has been a great supporter of IDiyas and was one of the first inventors to send us an unsolicited testimonial.

Honoring a Legacy: Sarbajit Rakshit’s Journey from Distraction to Dedication
May 29, 2024 marked 14 years since Sarbajit Rakshit lost his father. Throughout his life, Sarbajit struggled with distraction and a dislike for exams, focusing more on learning outside the curriculum. Despite his father’s efforts to keep him on track, he preferred exploring various subjects over scoring high marks. During his engineering studies at BEC Shibpur, his passion for diverse topics led to lower scores in his departmental subjects, though he eventually improved his grades in his final years. Realizing higher studies weren’t for him, Sarbajit focused on learning without chasing certificates, much to his father’s disappointment. To honor his father’s wishes, he turned to patents, filing his first one just months after his father’s passing. Today, with 1252 unique patents, Sarbajit is among the top 20 patentees in the world, dedicating all his achievements to his father.

Weekly Statistics

Top Inventors (by Utility Patents) & current Company:

1. Hany Mohamed Abd El-Lateef Ahmed, 17 patents (King Faisal University)
2. Esmael Hejazi Dinan, 14 patents (Ofinno)
3. Tao Luo, 14 patents (Qualcomm)
4. Mai Mostafa Khalaf Ali, 14 patents (King Faisal University)
5. Antar Ahmed Abdelhamid Ahmed, 10 patents (King Faisal University)
6. Junyi Li, 10 patents (Qualcomm)
7. Frederick E. Shelton, IV, 9 patents (Cilag, Ethicon)
8. Hua Zhou, 9 patents (Ofinno)
9. Yunjung Yi, 9 patents (Ofinno, CableLabs)
10. Ruilong Xie, 8 patents (IBM)
11. Li Zhang, 8 patents (Bytedance)
12. Hongbin Liu, 8 patents (Bytedance)

Top Attorneys:

1. Fish & Richardson P.C. – 112
2. Foley & Lardner LLP – 85
3. Sughrue Mion, PLLC – 80
4. Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. – 77
5. Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP – 70
6. Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP – 68
7. CANTOR COLBURN LLP – 66
8. Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. – 64
9. MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP – 63
10. Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP – 58

Top Universities:

1. King Faisal University – 31
2. The Regents of the University of California – 10
3. The Regents of the University of Michigan – 7
4. Cornell University – 6 patents
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 6
6. California Institute of Technology – 6
7. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology – 6
8. President and Fellows of Harvard College – 5
9. The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University – 5
10. Board of Regents, the University of Texas System – 5

Top Cities in  China:

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1. Beijing – 185
2. Shenzhen – 159
3. Shanghai – 100
4. Guangdong – 87
5. Dongguan – 33
6. Zhejiang – 23
7. Hefei – 22
8. Chengdu – 18
9. Wuhan – 18
10. Nanjing – 18

Top Cities in Connecticut (US):

1. New Haven, CT (US) – 5
2. Danbury, CT (US) – 5
3. Glastonbury, CT (US) – 5
4. West Hartford, CT (US) – 4
5. Greenwich, CT (US) – 4
6. Vernon, CT (US) – 4
7. Stamford, CT (US) – 4
8. Westport, CT (US) – 3
9. Madison, CT (US) – 3
10. Cheshire, CT (US) – 3

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Technology Trends by Keyword

– sars-cov-2 – First mention 2020-10-27 in the patent 10815539; Growth Rate: 191%; In all, there are 297 patents with this keyword.

– cybersecurity – First mention 2015-11-03 in the patent 9177139; Growth Rate: 37%; In all, there are 557 patents with this keyword.

– 3d-printed – First mention 2017-06-27 in the patent 9688029; Growth Rate: 37%; In all, there are 169 patents with this keyword.

– cryptocurrency – First mention 2015-05-05 in the patent 9022286; Growth Rate: 32%; In all, there are 335 patents with this keyword.

– microservice – First mention 2016-09-06 in the patent 9438634; Growth Rate: 24%; In all, there are 639 patents with this keyword.

– pre-vapor – First mention 2018-06-19 in the patent 9999258; Growth Rate: 18%; In all, there are 143 patents with this keyword.

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Trivia

The answer is:

The US Patent with the most pages is the Bentwich patent US-8207316-B1 issued June 26, 2012, with 9,206 total pages. The PGPUB with the most pages is US-20070048301-A1, published March 1, 2007, with 8,528 total pages.

Many thanks to the Public Search Facility (PSF) staff within the USPTO for unearthing this information, at our request. Emails to PSF can be sent to: psf@uspto.gov.

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