Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce released its annual list of the top patent recipients for 2003.
This was only the second time HP has been in the patent recipients list's top ten.
While roughly 90% of patents granted go to corporations, universities, nonprofits and state governments, individual inventors, as a group, rank in the top three patent recipients for the 14 of 15 most patent-prolific states.
IBM ranked in the top three patent recipients in four of the 15 most creative states, and landed 4,186 patents nationwide the highest number of patents for any single company or individual for the 16th year in a row.
Unlike IFI's annual Top U.S. Patent Recipients, this broader ranking measures the size of a patent owner's global portfolio based on the number of active patent families.
In order to identify the 10 most innovative companies, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed top U.S. patent recipients in 2013, according to IFI CLAIMS Patent Services' annual report.
When tested in vivo by intravenous injection or natural mosquito bite the recipient animals became patent after similar prepatent periods compared to WT sporozoite inoculation (Table 2).
IBM has around 40,000 patents and is granted 3,000 more every year, which has made it the number one recipient at America's patent office for the past 12 years.
The recipient of 562 patents before his death at the age of 74 in 1997, Mr. Lemelson was second only to Thomas Edison, who was awarded 1,093 patents.
Meanwhile, Samsung, which is the world's largest mobile phone maker, is already the second-largest recipient of U.S. patents.
