IBM Corp says it was awarded the most US patents for the fourth straight year, receiving a record 1,867 from from the US Patent & Trademark Office. Next came Canon Inc with 1,538 patents, Motorola Inc, 1,064, NEC Corp with 1,042, and Hitachi Inc with 961, followed by five Japanese, Mitsubishi Electric Corp with 932, […]
IBM Corp says it was awarded the most US patents for the fourth straight year, receiving a record 1,867 from from the US Patent & Trademark Office. Next came Canon Inc with 1,538 patents, Motorola Inc, 1,064, NEC Corp with 1,042, and Hitachi Inc with 961, followed by five Japanese, Mitsubishi Electric Corp with 932, Toshiba Corp with 912, Fujitsu Ltd, 868, Sony Corp with 854, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd with 837, then General Electric Co with 819.
