Most Valuable (Cited)
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Top 100 Most Valuable Patent Portfolios Based on 3 million patents issued from 1-1-2005 to 3-21-2017 Methodology: 1) Identify all US-based patents and their patent citations 2) Identify most cited patents (patent must be cited > 10x as 10x is the average) 3) Aggregate all of the "most cited patents" into their Assignees and sort Patents Total Average Rank Assignee Being Cited Citations Citations/Patent 1 International Business Machines Corporation 5902 163252 27.66 2 Microsoft Corporation 4688 142191 30.33 3 Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. 715 97544 136.43 4 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. 972 71947 74.02 5 Intel Corporation 2273 66689 29.34 6 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. 1922 58888 30.64 7 Tyco Healthcare Group LP 498 56695 113.85 8 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 2097 53863 25.69 9 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 1950 52703 27.03 10 Cisco Technology, Inc. 1702 51491 30.25 11 Micron Technology, Inc. 1567 48443 30.91 12 Medtronic, Inc. 1049 42652 40.66 13 Sony Corporation 1454 37963 26.11 14 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. 1177 36719 31.20 15 Apple Inc. 1057 36234 34.28 16 Hitachi, Ltd. 1314 36126 27.49 17 Western Digital (Fremont), LLC 322 36007 111.82 18 Masimo Corporation 220 35402 160.92 19 IGT 746 35063 47.00 20 Nokia Corporation 1110 34107 30.73 21 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 1346 33712 25.05 22 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 982 29744 30.29 23 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. 1092 29719 27.22 24 General Electric Company 1301 29432 22.62 25 Silverbrook Research PTY LTD 656 25941 39.54 26 Boston Scientific SciMed, Inc. 623 24728 39.69 27 Fujitsu Limited 933 24492 26.25 28 Google Inc. 896 24343 27.17 29 Shell Oil Company 294 23126 78.66 30 Qualcomm Incorporated 800 22214 27.77 31 Broadcom Corporation 784 21980 28.04 32 3M Innovative Properties Company 790 21613 27.36 33 Nortel Networks Limited 656 21338 32.53 34 Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. 594 21232 35.74 35 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. 698 20799 29.80 36 Motorola, Inc. 617 20747 33.63 37 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. 710 20707 29.16 38 Donnelly Corporation 244 19859 81.39 39 Texas Instruments Incorporated 703 19549 27.81 40 DexCom, Inc. 116 19155 165.13 41 Seiko Epson Corporation 841 18981 22.57 42 Medtronic Minimed, Inc. 186 18793 101.04 43 SanDisk Corporation 438 18488 42.21 44 LG Electronics Inc. 761 18387 24.16 45 Digimarc Corporation 334 17970 53.80 46 Eastman Kodak Company 568 17812 31.36 47 Applied Materials, Inc. 602 17746 29.48 48 EMC Corporation 637 17588 27.61 49 Ricoh Company, Ltd. 714 15842 22.19 50 Honeywell International Inc. 637 15681 24.62 51 The Regents of the University of California 540 15518 28.74 52 Lucent Technologies Inc. 478 15321 32.05 53 Xerox Corporation 577 14901 25.82 54 Oracle International Corporation 506 14631 28.92 55 Covidien LP 257 14211 55.30 56 The Boeing Company 612 13074 21.36 57 Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. 316 12757 40.37 58 NEC Corporation 524 12661 24.16 59 Research in Motion Limited 424 12557 29.62 60 Sherwood Services AG 84 12424 147.90 61 ATT Corp. 364 12411 34.10 62 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 369 12361 33.50 63 Infineon Technologies AG 456 12355 27.09 64 CommVault Systems, Inc. 192 12235 63.72 65 Amazon Technologies, Inc. 395 11880 30.08 66 Schlumberger Technology Corporation 489 11865 24.26 67 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 394 11578 29.39 68 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 487 11564 23.75 69 Ford Global Technologies, LLC 529 11084 20.95 70 Yahoo! Inc. 310 10992 35.46 71 SciMed Life Systems, Inc. 242 10928 45.16 72 McAfee, Inc. 335 10760 32.12 73 Monsanto Technology LLC 201 10724 53.35 74 Olympus Corporation 325 10693 32.90 75 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. 415 10490 25.28 76 Juniper Networks, Inc. 318 10330 32.48 77 ADC Telecommunications, Inc. 313 10292 32.88 78 E Ink Corporation 144 9999 69.44 79 Cree, Inc. 255 9820 38.51 80 Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) 329 9787 29.75 81 Panasonic Corporation 395 9665 24.47 82 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 429 9476 22.09 83 Renesas Technology Corp. 383 9360 24.44 84 Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. 247 9346 37.84 85 Pacesetter, Inc. 255 9344 36.64 86 Symantec Corporation 334 9107 27.27 87 Xilinx, Inc. 363 9079 25.01 88 The Procter Gamble Company 409 9076 22.19 89 Nike, Inc. 304 8794 28.93 90 SDGI Holdings, Inc. 108 8777 81.27 91 Symbol Technologies, Inc. 220 8740 39.73 92 Robert Bosch GmbH 377 8621 22.87 93 Western Digital (Fremont), Inc. 72 8581 119.18 94 Honda Motor Co., Ltd. 365 8566 23.47 95 Baker Hughes Incorporated 333 8552 25.68 96 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. 317 8482 26.76 97 Sprint Communications Company L.P. 302 8405 27.83 98 General Motors Corporation 345 8338 24.17 99 Lifescan, Inc. 92 8333 90.58 100 Covidien AG 150 8258 55.05 International Business Machines Corporation Cited CitedPatent Title Count 7039676 Using video image analysis to automatically transmit gestures over a network in a chat or instant messaging session 352 6964023 System and method for multi-modal focus detection, referential ambiguity resolution and mood classification using multi-modal input258 6962872 High density chip carrier with integrated passive devices 222 6934756 Conversational networking via transport, coding and control conversational protocols 215 6921982 FET channel having a strained lattice structure along multiple surfaces 205 6936840 Phase-change memory cell and method of fabricating the phase-change memory cell 203 6873982 Ordering of database search results based on user feedback 194 7137126 Conversational computing via conversational virtual machine 188 6943407 Low leakage heterojunction vertical transistors and high performance devices thereof 188 6931532 Selective data encryption using style sheet processing 185 6999854 Medical infusion pump capable of learning bolus time patterns and providing bolus alerts 182 6947556 Secure data storage and retrieval with key management and user authentication 182 6988241 Client side, web-based spreadsheet 173 6937868 Apparatus and method for managing a mobile phone answering mode and outgoing message based on a location of the mobile phone173 6875703 Method for forming quadruple density sidewall image transfer (SIT) structures 171 7093208 Method for tuning a digital design for synthesized random logic circuit macros in a continuous design space with optional insertion166 of multiple threshold voltage devices 7269612 Method, system, and program for a policy based storage manager 166 7519726 Methods, apparatus and computer programs for enhanced access to resources within a network 166 6984591 Precursor source mixtures 165 7249123 System and method for building social networks based on activity around shared virtual objects 165 7141853 Method and structure for buried circuits and devices 164 6952758 Method and system for providing consistent data modification information to clients in a storage system 164 6985939 Building distributed software services as aggregations of other services 164 6993741 Generating mask patterns for alternating phase-shift mask lithography 164 7177880 Method of creating and displaying relationship chains between users of a computerized network 163 6986061 Integrated system for network layer security and fine-grained identity-based access control 159 6983371 Super-distribution of protected digital content 159 6895547 Method and apparatus for low density parity check encoding of data 159 6973553 Method and apparatus for using extended disk sector formatting to assist in backup and hierarchical storage management 154 7188085 Method and system for delivering encrypted content with associated geographical-based advertisements 153 7103731 Method, system, and program for moving data among storage units 152 7246118 Method and system for automated collaboration using electronic book highlights and notations 151 7350183 Method for improving optical proximity correction 149 7528494 Accessible chip stack and process of manufacturing thereof 148 7308669 Use of redundant routes to increase the yield and reliability of a VLSI layout 147 6983351 System and method to guarantee overwrite of expired data in a virtual tape server 147 7103906 User controlled multi-device media-on-demand system 146 6995456 High-performance CMOS SOI devices on hybrid crystal-oriented substrates 146 7035865 Calendar-enhanced awareness for instant messaging systems and electronic status boards 144 6977194 Structure and method to improve channel mobility by gate electrode stress modification 144 7923337 Fin field effect transistor devices with self-aligned source and drain regions 143 6874084 Method and apparatus for establishing a secure communication connection between a java application and secure server 142 7313593 Method and apparatus for providing full duplex and multipoint IP audio streaming 142 7072849 Method for presenting advertising in an interactive service 142 7213005 Digital content distribution using web broadcasting services 141 7480880 Method, system, and program product for computing a yield gradient from statistical timing 141 7099936 Multi-tier service level agreement method and system 139 6848078 Comparison of hierarchical structures and merging of differences 138 7302651 Technology migration for integrated circuits with radical design restrictions 138 7228354 Method for improving performance in a computer storage system by regulating resource requests from clients 138 7484197 Minimum layout perturbation-based artwork legalization with grid constraints for hierarchical designs 137 7465973 Integrated circuit having gates and active regions forming a regular grating 137 7402442 Physically highly secure