SanDisk Corp. / Photonics K.K. National Instruments Corp. / Kaneka Corp. / NEC Electronics Corp. / Micron Technology Inc. / Dell Products L.P. / Jukogyo K.K. Koyo Seiko Co. Ltd. / Stine Seed Farm Inc. / Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd. / Electronic Systems Integration Inc. / Organization Patents Uni-Charm Corp. / Dupont Co. / Cornell Research Foundation Inc. / Dongbuanam Semiconductor Inc. / Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. / l'Energie Atomique Fanuc Ltd. / Ebara Corp. / McAfee Inc. / K.K. Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. / Nikon Corp. / Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH / Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. / Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. / Becton Dickinson and Co. / Ohio Inc. / Agere Systems Inc. / Deere & Co. EADS Weatherford/Lamb Inc. / Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. / Advanced Micro Devices Inc. / Callaway Golf Co. / Johnson & Johnson Juniper Networks Inc. / Rohm and Haas Co. / Mitsubishi Denki K.K. Renesas Technology Corp. / Freescale Semiconductor Inc. / NEC LCD Technologies Ltd. / Organization Patents United Microelectronics Corp. / Medtronic Inc. / Snecma Moteurs Sony Corp. / Petrole Integrated Device Technology Inc. / Verizon Visteon Global Technologies Inc. / Abbott Laboratories Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. / Shimadzu Corp. / Johnson & Johnson Boston Scientific Corp. / Space Administration Ajinomoto Co. Inc. Chartered Semiconductor / Ciena Corp. / Canon / Delta Electronics Inc. / 3M Innovative Properties Co. / Pfizer Inc. / Alps Electric Co. Ltd. / Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. Harris Corp. / Applied Materials Inc. / Unilever 3Com Corp. / SRI Sports Ltd. / Technologies Inc. / Emerson Electric Co. International / KLA-Tencor Technologies Corp. / General Electric Co. / Nortel Networks Ltd. / DaimlerChrysler Corp. / Bayer AG / L'Oreal S.A. / ARM Ltd. / Uni-Charm Corp. / Hon Hai Precision Ind. / Dongbu Electronics Co. Ltd. / Interdigital Technology Corp. / Konica Corp. / Shin Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd. / Seiko Instruments Inc. / Integrated Device Technology Inc. / Hyundai Motor Co. Illinois / Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. / IBM Corp. / Halliburton Energy Services Inc. / Technique S.A. / Pacesetter Inc. / Taiwan 255 Alcatel 251 Olympus Corp. / Seagate Technology LLC / NGK Insulators Ltd. / Rolls-Royce PLC / Lexmark International Inc. / Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. / Merck & Co. Inc. / K.K. Carl Zeiss SMT AG / United Technologies Corp. / NTT Docomo Inc. / Illinois Tool Works Inc. / Roche Holdings Genentech Inc. / AT&T Corp. / Headway Technologies Inc. / HRL Laboratories LLC / Amgen Inc. / Robert Bosch GmbH / Michigan Advanced Cardiovascular Systems Inc. / Macronix International Co. Ltd. / Organization National Instruments Corp. / Yamaha Corp. / NSK Ltd. / Olympus Optical Co. Ltd. / PPG Industries Ohio Inc. / Infineon Technologies AG / Applera Corp. / Angewandten Forschung E.V. HRL Laboratories LLC / SPX Corp. / Cypress Semiconductor Corp. / International Rectifier Corp. / Schering Corp. / Baker Hughes Inc. / Daimler-Chrysler AG / LG Electronics Inc. / Nokia Corp. / Sharp Corp. / OKI Electric Industry Co. Ltd. / Organization Patents ITT Manufacturing Enterprises Inc. / Rohm Co. Ltd. / Milliken & Co. / Technology Corp. / Silverbrook Research Pty. Ltd. / PPG Industries / Lenovo PTE Ltd. / Cisco Technology Inc. / Molex Inc. / Unilever Unisys Corp. / Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. / Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. / Shimano Inc. / Hynix Semiconductor Inc. / Human Services Battelle Memorial Institute Symbol Technologies Inc. / Koito Manufacturing Co. Ltd. / Intel Corp. / Lucent Technologies Inc. / Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AG / International Game Technology / Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. / Network Appliance Inc. / EADS Eastman Kodak Co. / Aisin Seiki K.K. Ajinomoto Co. Inc. / Ford Global Technologies LLC / Sun Microsystems Inc. / Lockheed Martin Corp. / Xilinx Inc. / Johns Hopkins University Pitney-Bowes Inc. / Acushnet Co. / Angewandten Forschung E.V. Freescale Semiconductor Inc. / Technology Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. / Dow Chemical Co. / LSI Logic Corp. / Tokyo Electron Ltd. / Thomson Licensing S.A. / Delphi Technologies Inc. / ADC Telecommunications Inc. / Organization Patents Borgwarner Inc. / Telecommunications Research Institute Minolta Camera Co. Ltd. / Pentax Corp. / Army Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH / Agfa-Gevaert N.V. / Corning Inc. / Harris Corp. / Fanuc Ltd. / Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. / K.K. Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd. / Hitachi Ltd. / Seiko Instruments Inc. Semiconductor / AstraZeneca AB / Fujinon Corp. / Marvell International Ltd. / Nikon Corp. Nippon / Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Texas Instruments Inc. / Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. / Pont de Nemours and Co. / Borgwarner Inc. / Thales Thomson Licensing S.A. / Aisin Seiki K.K. KAO Corp. / Sony Corp. / NEC Corp. / Snecma Moteurs Dow Chemical Co. / Japan Ltd. / Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd. Texas / Navy 270 Pioneer Corp. / Juniper Networks Inc. / Navy United Technologies Corp. / AU Optronics Corp. / Visteon Global Technologies Inc. / Petrole NTN Corp. / STMicroelectronics N.V. / Kogyo K.K. Cadence Design Systems Inc. / Apple Inc. / Seiko Epson Corp. / Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. / Motorola Inc. / Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. / Ya Technology Corp. / Caterpillar Inc. / TDK Corp. / Nike Inc. / Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. / Showa Denko K.K. / Technology Callaway Golf Co. / EMC Corp. / Degussa AG / Qualcomm Inc. / Analog Devices Inc. / Alcatel Alps Electric Co. Ltd. / Henkel KGaA / Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. / Rambus Inc. / Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P. / Lear Corp. / Michelin / Organization Patents Headway Technologies Inc. International / Baxter International Inc. / Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Delta Electronics Inc. / Mediatek Inc. / Fuji Electric Co. Ltd. / Hyundai Motor Co. / Minolta Camera Co. Ltd. / Honeywell International Inc. / Organization Emerson Electric Co. / l'Energie Atomique ConocoPhillips Co. / Technology Agency Olympus Optical Co. Ltd. United States of America / Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp. / Agilent Technologies Inc. / Western Digital Technologies Inc. / Tyco Electronics Corp. / Taiwan Infineon Technologies AG / Avaya Technology Corp. / Industrial Research Cypress Semiconductor Corp. / ASML Netherlands B.V. / Texas Verizon VIA Technologies Inc. / Genentech Inc. / Komatsu Ltd. / Adobe Systems Inc. / Microsoft Corp. / Olympus Corp. / ExxonMobil Corp. / Research In Motion Ltd. / BASF Group Battelle Memorial Institute Baxter International Inc. / Army United States of America / Funai Electric Co. Ltd. / Siemens A.G. Silverbrook Research Pty. Ltd. / Digimarc Corp. / Schlumberger Technology Corp. / Sharp Laboratories of America / LM Ericsson 359 BASF Group 350 Pfizer Inc. / Ben Q Corp. / Stanford University Stine Seed Farm Inc. / Jidosha K.K. 384 Ford Global Technologies LLC / Organization Medtronic Inc. / Interdigital Technology Corp. International / Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. / Nan Ya Technology Corp. / United Microelectronics Corp. / CNH America LLC / Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Wyeth Xerox Corp. / Boston Scientific Corp. / Pioneer Corp. / Invensys Systems Inc. / Sumitomo Electric Industries Co. Ltd. / Oracle International Corp. / Northrop Grumman Corp. / Organization International Business Machines Corp. / Caterpillar Inc. Chartered Semiconductor / Denson Corp. / GlaxoSmithKline Rohm Co. Ltd. / Sprint Communications Co. L.P. / Electronics Corp. / Eastman Kodak Co. / BAE Systems / Broadcom Corp. / University of California Renesas Technology Corp. / Air Products and Chemicals Inc. / NTN Corp. / Weatherford/Lamb Inc. / Roche Holdings Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. / GlaxoSmithKline Goodrich Corp. / Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. / Koyo Seiko Co. Ltd. / Procter & Gamble Co. / Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. / Dainippon Screen Mfg. / Carl Zeiss SMT AG / Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. / Eaton Corp. / Pitney-Bowes Inc. / Abbott Laboratories Acushnet Co. / Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. / Co. Ltd. / Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. / NCR Corp. / Nitto Denko Corp. / Goodrich Corp. / Showa Denko K.K. Advantest Corp. / KAO Corp. / Cadence Design Systems Inc. / Nvidia Corp. / Boeing Co. / Yazaki Corp. / California 410 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. / LAM Research Corp. / Novartis AG / Symbol Technologies Inc. Taiwan / ITT Manufacturing Enterprises Inc. / University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. / NGK Spark Plug Co. Ltd. / Advantest Corp. / Black & Decker Inc. / Ricoh Co. Ltd. / Siemens A.G. Fujitsu Ltd. / Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. / Shell Oil Co. / K.K. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. / Toyoda Gosei K.K. Victor Company / Fujitsu Ltd. / Monsanto Technology LLC / Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. / Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. / Raytheon Co. / Xerox Corp. / General Motors Corp. / Omron Corp. / Organization Patents 3Com Corp. / Finisar Corp. / Altera Corp. / Toshiba Corp. / Winbond Electronics Corp. / SDGI Holdings Inc. / Minebea Co. Ltd. / Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. / Merck Patent GmbH / National Semiconductor Corp. / Hilti AG / Alstom Technology Ltd. / University of Texas Apple Inc. / Honda Motor Co. Ltd. / Telecommunications Research Institute 119 EMC Corp. / Toyota Jidosha K.K. Tyco Electronics Corp. / Unisys Corp. / /
Continent
America / /
Country
Japan / United States / /
Facility
University of Michigan Advanced Cardiovascular Systems / University of California / Semiconductor Energy Laboratory / University of Michigan University of Texas Verizon VIA Technologies / LLC Hynix Semiconductor Inc. Hyundai Motor Co. Illinois Tool Works Inc. Industrial Technology Research Institute / Ltd. Marvell International Ltd. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. / Inc. Wyeth California Institute / Industrial Technology Research Institute / Inc. California Institute of Technology Callaway Golf / /
Organization
University of California / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / U.S. Patent & Trademark Office / Johns Hopkins University / University of Michigan University / University of Michigan Advanced Cardiovascular Systems / Taiwan Infineon Technologies AG Institut Francais / National Aeronautics and Space Administration United States of America / Florida Research Foundation / Ltd. Institut Francais / Council of Scientific / Intellectual Property Owners Association / World Intellectual Property Organization / Industrial Technology Research Institute / University of Texas Apple / University of Texas / California Institute of Technology / Cornell / Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute / Telecommunications Research Institute / Council of Scientific and Industrial Research United States of America / Institute of Technology Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. / Stanford University / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / University of Florida / Quality Metrics Task Force / Inc. Wyeth California Institute / /
Top 300 Organizations Granted U.S. Patents in 2006 Numerical and Alphabetical Listings NOTE: NUMBERS OF PATENTS AND NEW PATENT QUALITY METRICS In January 2007 the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced that it will no