October 17, 2023, Weekly Utility Patent Insights.

Welcome to the 17th of October 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 7,183 for the week.
  2. Patent Attorney Firm (Fish & Richardson, P.C.) had the most number of patents issued (120 patents).
  3. The most prolific Company was SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. with 122 patents.
  4. The most prolific city for issued utility patents was Tokyo, JP with 262 patents.
  5. The most prolific inventor was Tao Luo with 30 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 7 patents.- Location: California
  7. Added 5,301 new inventors, and 403 new companies.
Top 10 Inventors:
  1. Tao Luo, 30 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
  2. Xiaoxia Zhang, 14 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
  3. Wanshi Chen, 14 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
  4. Peter Gaal, 12 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
  5. Junyi Li, 11 patents – Chester, NJ (US)
  6. Jing Sun, 11 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
  7. Frederick E. Shelton, IV, 9 patents – Hillsboro, OH (US)
  8. Juan Montojo, 9 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
  9. Kazuki Takeda, 8 patents – Tokyo, JP
  10. Yi Huang, 8 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
10 Most forward citations growth:
  1. Frederick E Shelton, IV, +5,417 – Hillsboro, OH (US)
  2. Jason L Harris, +1,812 – Lebanon, OH (US)
  3. Jerome R Morgan, +1,434 – Cincinnati, OH (US)
  4. Jeffrey S Swayze, +1,070 – West Chester, OH (US)
  5. Chester O Baxter, III, +1,032 – Loveland, OH (US)
  6. David C Yates, +1,004 – West Chester, OH (US)
  7. Frank J Viola, +747 – Sandy Hook, CT (US)
  8. Charles J Scheib, +499 – Loveland, OH (US)
  9. Gregory J Bakos, +479 – Mason, OH (US)
  10. William Bruce Weisenburgh, II, +474 – Maineville, OH (US)
Top 10 Attorneys:
  1. Fish & Richardson P.C., 120 patents
  2. Sughrue Mion, PLLC, 88 patents
  3. Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, 79 patents
  4. Foley & Lardner LLP, 77 patents
  5. Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C., 73 patents
  6. Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A., 71 patents
  7. Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P., 65 patents
  8. Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP, 64 patents
  9. CANTOR COLBURN LLP, 60 patents
  10. Perkins Coie LLP, 58 patents
Top 10 Companies:
  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., 138 patents
  2. QUALCOMM Incorporated, 113 patents
  3. TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LIMITED, 82 patents
  4. CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, 72 patents
  5. International Business Machines Corporation, 71 patents
  6. Apple Inc., 68 patents
  7. SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., 60 patents
  8. INTEL CORPORATION, 60 patents
  9. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., 55 patents
  10. Amazon Technologies, Inc., 47 patents
Top 10 Cities:
  1. Tokyo, JP, 262 patents
  2. San Jose, CA (US), 234 patents
  3. Seoul, KR, 200 patents
  4. San Francisco, CA (US), 182 patents
  5. San Diego, CA (US), 180 patents
  6. Beijing, CN, 171 patents
  7. Sunnyvale, CA (US), 127 patents
  8. Suwon-si, KR, 119 patents
  9. Fremont, CA (US), 110 patents
  10. Kanagawa, JP, 104 patents
Top 10 Countries:
  1. United States of America, 3,652 patents
  2. Japan, 887 patents
  3. China, 618 patents
  4. South Korea, 465 patents
  5. Germany, 410 patents
  6. Taiwan, 285 patents
  7. United Kingdom, 212 patents
  8. India, 203 patents
  9. Canada, 190 patents
  10. France, 153 patents
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