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U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
Patent Technology Monitoring Team (PTMT)

Patenting In Technology Classes,
Breakout By Organization

Count of 2006 - 2010 Utility Patent Grants,
By Calendar Year of Grant
With Patent Counts Based on Primary Patent Classification

- Explanation of Data -

Rank Ordered Listing of Organizations Receiving 5 or More Utility Patents During the Period
Having Primary Classification In

Class 712, Processing Architectures and Instruction Processing, e.g., Processors (Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems)

( technology class is determined by the primary classification assigned to the patent- see 'Explanation of Data' )
( patent ownership is determined by the first-named assignee listed on a patent )

The following table displays first-named assignees and counts of their associated patents, as distributed by the year of patent grant.
First-Named Assignee 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Total
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION 35 38 63 55 86 277
INTEL CORPORATION 61 47 48 37 31 224
SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. 22 22 30 42 11 127
ARM LIMITED 10 9 16 9 38 82
MIPS TECHNOLOGIES INC. 7 13 8 15 25 68
FUJITSU LIMITED 10 9 12 10 18 59
~INDIVIDUALLY OWNED PATENT 10 7 7 11 18 53
HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P. 16 9 15 3 6 49
NVIDIA CORPORATION 1 6 7 18 10 42
QUALCOMM, INC. 2 3 4 12 19 40
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 7 11 9 4 8 39
BROADCOM CORPORATION 9 12 6 4 5 36
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, INCORPORATED 5 2 7 12 10 36
IP FIRST LLC 9 15 6 3 2 35
RENESAS TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 8 3 9 6 5 31
ALTERA CORPORATION 2 6 5 6 6 25
INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG 5 8 6 3 3 25
MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 7 5 4 6 3 25
FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC. 6 2 3 2 11 24
SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION 5 3 5 6 5 24
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD. 7 6 9 0 0 22
XILINX, INC. 1 3 3 7 8 22
NXP B.V. 0 5 4 6 5 20
SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC. 3 2 7 3 5 20
ORACLE AMERICA, INC. 0 0 0 0 18 18
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. 2 2 2 4 8 18
MICROUNITY SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, INC. 0 4 4 3 6 17
TOSHIBA CORPORATION 2 3 5 1 6 17
APPLE COMPUTER, INC. 3 1 6 5 1 16
MICROSOFT CORPORATION 2 4 2 2 6 16
STMICROELECTRONICS, INC. 4 1 1 5 5 16
VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 2 4 4 2 4 16
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V. 5 4 1 0 4 14
PANASONIC CORPORATION 0 0 1 7 6 14
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. 4 2 5 1 1 13
HITACHI, LTD 5 1 1 4 2 13
STMICROELECTRONICS S.A. 2 2 3 3 3 13
ANALOG DEVICES, INC. 3 3 4 0 2 12
MARVELL INTERNATIONAL LTD. 1 1 3 0 7 12
NEC CORPORATION 1 2 2 2 5 12
NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION 0 1 0 5 4 10
TRANSMETA CORPORATION 4 2 3 1 0 10
GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC. 0 0 0 0 9 9
PTS CORPORATION 8 0 1 0 0 9
LSI LOGIC CORPORATION 8 0 0 0 0 8
TILERA CORPORATION 0 0 1 3 4 8
ATMEL CORPORATION 0 0 1 2 4 7
SONY CORPORATION 2 2 0 1 2 7
STRETCH, INC. 0 1 1 5 0 7
VERISILICON HOLDINGS, CO., LTD. 0 5 2 0 0 7
CLEARSPEED TECHNOLOGY LIMITED 0 0 1 3 2 6
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA (SHARP CORPORATION) 4 0 1 1 0 6
STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L. 0 3 1 1 1 6
VIA-CYRIX, INC. 4 1 0 1 0 6
ATI TECHNOLOGIES INC. 1 1 2 0 1 5
CRAY INC. 1 0 3 0 1 5
SEARETE LLC 0 0 0 2 3 5
UBICOM, INC. 3 0 0 1 1 5


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