Intellectual Property Owners Association published a list of top patent recipients in the US for 2005. The top 45 patent recipients in 2005 are:
- International Business Machines Corp. – 2941
- Hitachi, Ltd. – 1918
- Canon K.K. – 1875
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. – 1813
- Hewlett-Packard Co. – 1808
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. – 1641
- Micron Technology, Inc. – 1561
- Intel Corp. – 1549
- Siemens A.G. – 1345
- Toshiba Corp. – 1338
- Sony Corp. – 1234
- General Electric Co. – 1206
- Fujitsu Ltd. – 1154
- Seiko Epson Corp. – 884
- Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V. – 794
- Infineon Technologies A.G. – 787
- Robert Bosch GmbH – 756
- Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. – 750
- Microsoft Corp. – 750
- Texas Instruments, Inc. – 734
- Sun Microsystems Inc. – 715
- Honda Motor Co., Ltd. – 698
- Eastman Kodak Co. – 694
- NEC Corp. – 661
- Mitsubishi Denki K.K. – 612
- Denso Corp. – 609
- Renesas Technology Corp. – 606
- Agilent Technologies – 562
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. – 526
- Motorola – 511
- Honeywell International Inc. – 500
- Nokia Corp. – 496
- Sharp Corp. – 473
- Ricoh Co., Ltd. – 469
- LG Electronics Inc. – 463 – 3M Co. – 443
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. – 441
- Cisco Technology, Inc. – 440
- Xerox Corp. – 426
- Broadcom Corp. – 414
- Delphi Technologies, Inc. – 405
- Lucent Technologies Inc. – 405
- Boeing Co. – 403
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. – 400
- General Motors Corp. – 392
- Pfizer Inc. – 389