Patent Applications by Public Companies
Recent USPTO patent applications filed by covered public companies — an R&D-direction signal. These are applications, not granted patents; many will be amended, abandoned, or rejected. From the USPTO Open Data Portal.
Covered Companies
Counts are tracked patent applications per company — not granted patents. “Granted Parents” counts filings that continue an already-granted parent patent. Source: USPTO Open Data Portal (public).
| # | Ticker | Applicant | Applications | Granted Parents | Latest Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GOOGL | Google LLC | 151 | 91 | 2026-03-27 |
| 2 | CSCO | Cisco Technology, Inc. | 69 | 54 | 2026-02-12 |
| 3 | AMZN | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | 60 | 47 | 2026-01-28 |
| 4 | ORCL | Oracle International Corporation | 52 | 48 | 2026-01-28 |
| 5 | AVGO | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | 51 | 38 | 2026-01-28 |
| 6 | AAPL | Apple Inc. | 50 | 47 | 2026-02-12 |
| 7 | ADBE | Adobe Inc. | 50 | 45 | 2026-01-30 |
| 8 | AMAT | Applied Materials, Inc. | 50 | 33 | 2026-02-12 |
| 9 | AMD | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 50 | 17 | 2026-01-12 |
| 10 | AMGN | AMGEN INC. | 50 | 14 | 2026-02-12 |
| 11 | IBM | International Business Machines Corporation | 50 | 18 | 2026-01-06 |
| 12 | INTC | Intel Corporation | 50 | 18 | 2026-02-12 |
| 13 | JNJ | Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 50 | 23 | 2025-11-21 |
| 14 | LLY | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 50 | 6 | 2026-01-16 |
| 15 | META | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 50 | 6 | 2025-12-22 |
| 16 | MRK | MERCK & CO., INC. | 50 | 2 | 2022-09-06 |
| 17 | MSFT | Microsoft Corporation | 50 | 9 | 2025-04-16 |
| 18 | MU | Micron Technology, Inc. | 50 | 50 | 2026-02-12 |
| 19 | NVDA | NVIDIA Corporation | 50 | 46 | 2026-01-29 |
| 20 | PFE | Pfizer Inc. | 50 | 12 | 2025-12-29 |
| 21 | QCOM | QUALCOMM Incorporated | 50 | 47 | 2026-03-24 |
| 22 | TSLA | Tesla, Inc. | 50 | 27 | 2026-01-21 |
| 23 | TXN | Texas Instruments Incorporated | 50 | 50 | 2026-01-27 |
What this measures — and what it doesn't
A patent application is a request for protection, filed long before any grant decision — the median wait at the USPTO runs about two years, and a large share of applications never become patents at all. In plain English: the volume and subject lines of a company’s recent applications tell you where its R&D money is pointed today, which is exactly why we track them — but an application is a claim of intent, not a granted right. Where a filing is a continuation of an already-granted parent patent, we show that parent’s number; everything else here is pending. Coverage is a curated set of covered companies matched by applicant name, so a company absent from this list may still file patents under subsidiary names. Source: USPTO Open Data Portal (public).