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| Rank | Assignee | Patents | Inventors | Patent Classes | AvgSpeed (yrs) |
| 1 | QUALCOMM | 67 | 183 | 6 | 2.4 |
| 2 | International Business Machines | 62 | 227 | 13 | 2.9 |
| 3 | APPLE | 45 | 213 | 12 | 2.2 |
| 4 | Intel | 44 | 220 | 8 | 3.2 |
| 5 | AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES | 43 | 160 | 7 | 2.5 |
| 6 | EMC IP Holding | 39 | 117 | 3 | 2.6 |
| 7 | Micron Technology | 37 | 85 | 5 | 2.3 |
| 8 | Microsoft Technology Licensing | 27 | 123 | 3 | 2.8 |
| 9 | 27 | 84 | 6 | 2.6 | |
| 10 | Ford Global Technologies | 25 | 84 | 8 | 2.7 |
| 11 | ATT Intellectual Property I L.P. | 20 | 60 | 3 | 2.2 |
| 12 | Capital One Services | 20 | 53 | 3 | 2.1 |
| 13 | BANK OF AMERICA | 18 | 35 | 2 | 2.2 |
| 14 | Cisco Technology | 18 | 64 | 4 | 2.1 |
| 15 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP | 17 | 60 | 5 | 2.7 |
| 16 | Oracle International | 17 | 54 | 4 | 2.4 |
| 17 | The Boeing | 17 | 67 | 8 | 3.0 |
| 18 | TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | 17 | 43 | 7 | 2.9 |
| 19 | RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES | 16 | 40 | 5 | 3.2 |
| 20 | Halliburton Energy Services | 16 | 46 | 6 | 3.4 |
| 21 | Adobe | 16 | 43 | 3 | 3.2 |
| 22 | General Electric | 15 | 51 | 10 | 2.3 |
| 23 | Applied Materials | 14 | 56 | 4 | 2.3 |
| 24 | NXP USA | 14 | 36 | 5 | 2.0 |
| 25 | Caterpillar | 13 | 25 | 6 | 2.4 |
| 26 | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 12 | 53 | 7 | 2.9 |
| 27 | Snowflake | 12 | 41 | 2 | 0.7 |
| 28 | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | 12 | 53 | 9 | 3.3 |
| 29 | Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America | 12 | 36 | 8 | 2.1 |
| 30 | United Services Automobile Association (USAA) | 12 | 57 | 3 | 2.3 |
| 31 | Verizon Patent Licensing | 12 | 34 | 2 | 1.9 |
| 32 | VMware | 12 | 52 | 2 | 3.1 |
| 33 | Snap | 10 | 30 | 4 | 1.8 |
| 34 | KYNDRYL | 10 | 32 | 4 | 2.9 |
| 35 | META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES | 10 | 32 | 7 | 1.8 |
| 36 | Hewlett-Packard Development L.P. | 10 | 43 | 4 | 5.5 |
| 37 | GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS | 9 | 28 | 7 | 2.3 |
| 38 | DEERE | 9 | 27 | 5 | 2.5 |
| 39 | Magic Leap | 9 | 34 | 3 | 1.7 |
| 40 | The Procter Gamble | 9 | 29 | 4 | 3.3 |
| 41 | Whirlpool | 8 | 32 | 5 | 2.1 |
| 42 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY | 8 | 32 | 3 | 1.9 |
| 43 | PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF AMERICA | 8 | 23 | 4 | 1.9 |
| 44 | PAYPAL | 8 | 17 | 2 | 2.7 |
| 45 | Rockwell Collins | 8 | 29 | 7 | 2.1 |
| 46 | Dell Products L.P. | 8 | 25 | 3 | 2.6 |
| 47 | CARRIER | 8 | 19 | 5 | 3.1 |
| 48 | Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations | 8 | 30 | 5 | 2.6 |
| 49 | BYTEDANCE | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1.2 |
| 50 | Citrix Systems | 7 | 17 | 2 | 2.7 |
| 51 | CommScope Technologies | 7 | 13 | 3 | 2.8 |
| 52 | Ciena | 7 | 24 | 4 | 2.8 |
| 53 | DePuy Synthes Products | 7 | 27 | 1 | 2.9 |
| 54 | Dropbox | 7 | 28 | 2 | 2.4 |
| 55 | Haier US Appliance Solutions | 7 | 19 | 4 | 2.0 |
| 56 | Raytheon | 7 | 19 | 5 | 2.4 |
| 57 | Sprint Communications L.P. | 7 | 23 | 2 | 2.2 |
| 58 | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | 7 | 38 | 5 | 3.0 |
| 59 | Zoox | 7 | 17 | 4 | 3.2 |
| 60 | Waymo | 7 | 16 | 3 | 2.9 |
| 61 | Western Digital Technologies | 7 | 20 | 3 | 2.0 |
| 62 | WALMART APOLLO | 6 | 20 | 2 | 2.5 |
| 63 | The Johns Hopkins University | 6 | 24 | 3 | 4.5 |
| 64 | The Nielsen (US) | 6 | 18 | 2 | 2.1 |
| 65 | SPLUNK | 6 | 19 | 2 | 3.2 |
| 66 | RED HAT | 6 | 11 | 2 | 3.5 |
| 67 | NIKE | 6 | 24 | 2 | 2.9 |
| 68 | GE Precision Healthcare | 6 | 16 | 4 | 2.2 |
| 69 | Hamilton Sundstrand | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2.4 |
| 70 | Honeywell International | 6 | 25 | 3 | 2.3 |
| 71 | Comcast Cable Communications | 6 | 17 | 2 | 1.9 |
| 72 | Covidien LP | 6 | 14 | 1 | 2.8 |
| 73 | eBay | 5 | 11 | 2 | 3.1 |
| 74 | DEXCOM | 5 | 39 | 2 | 3.5 |
| 75 | Enlitic | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2.1 |
| 76 | ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS | 5 | 9 | 4 | 2.8 |
| 77 | Corning | 5 | 26 | 4 | 3.3 |
| 78 | CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS | 5 | 11 | 3 | 1.9 |
| 79 | Altria Client Services | 5 | 21 | 5 | 3.5 |
| 80 | ARRIS Enterprises | 5 | 13 | 2 | 1.9 |
| 81 | Advanced Micro Devices | 5 | 19 | 3 | 1.5 |
| 82 | 3M Innovative Properties | 5 | 21 | 5 | 3.4 |
| 83 | Medtronic | 5 | 19 | 1 | 3.6 |
| 84 | Seagate Technology | 5 | 15 | 4 | 2.2 |
| 85 | State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance | 5 | 19 | 2 | 1.3 |
| 86 | Sony Interactive Entertainment | 5 | 15 | 3 | 3.1 |
| 87 | Visa International Service Association | 5 | 18 | 2 | 4.2 |
| 88 | Toyota Research Institute | 4 | 8 | 3 | 2.2 |
| 89 | UATC | 4 | 13 | 2 | 2.7 |
| 90 | Wells Fargo Bank N.A. | 4 | 17 | 2 | 5.7 |
| 91 | Zebra Technologies | 4 | 9 | 3 | 2.0 |
| 92 | T-Mobile USA | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1.6 |
| 93 | Tencent America | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1.8 |
| 94 | Textron Innovations | 4 | 12 | 1 | 3.4 |
| 95 | SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY | 4 | 8 | 2 | 4.2 |
| 96 | SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES | 4 | 10 | 3 | 3.0 |
| 97 | ROKU | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1.3 |
| 98 | REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | 4 | 16 | 3 | 3.5 |
| 99 | Salesforce | 4 | 15 | 2 | 1.9 |
| 100 | President Fellows of Harvard College | 4 | 12 | 3 | 4.1 |