Top 10 U.S. Private Sector Patent Recipients

For the 2005 calendar year from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/speeches/06-03.htm

1. 2,941 International Business Machines Corporation
2. 1,828 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
3. 1,797 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
4. 1,688 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
5. 1,641 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
6. 1,561 Micron Technology, Inc.
7. 1,549 Intel Corporation
8. 1,271 Hitachi, Ltd
9. 1,258 Toshiba Corporation
10. 1,154 Fujitsu Limited