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Employers

 

Many employers get US patents for the inventions of their engineer employees.
This means that their engineer employees know about patents.

 

See below an alphabetical list of sample such employers. And, clicking on a company’s name below shows you some of its US patents, by conducting a limited, updated patent search. As with all patent-working skills, you should also know the limitations of these particular searches. These searches are in the records of the US Patent Office, and search for US patents only, and only for patents that the owner companies declared as their own near the time of issuance – a declaration that is not required. As such, these searches will not find a) patents declared instead with an earlier or later name of the company, or declared with the name of a subsidiary company, b) published patent applications, c) patent documents in countries other than the US, and so on.

 

Do not see your employer of interest here? Search their patents! Go to the USPTO search page and, in the Query box type: an/ and then the name of the employer you want to research. (This is a word search; if the company name has more than one words, try to use a characteristic word, avoid articles, words link Inc and Gmbh; if you still need multiple words, use quotation marks; etc.)

College Placement Officer: any of your frequent employers of engineers not listed here? If you want to enable your students to look up their patents easily, request us to include them from this page, and we will.

Employer of engineers: If you have patents we can add you to this list.

SAMPLE LISTING OF EMPLOYERS THAT PATENT (we are constantly adding more):

A

Abbott, US Patents
Adidas, US Patents
Adobe Systems, US Patents
AECOM, US Patents
Airbnb, US Patents
Amazon, US Patents
Anheuser-Busch InBev, US Patents
Amgen, US Patents
Apple, US Patents
Autodesk, US Patents
AT&T, US Patents

B

BAE Systems, US Patents
BASF, US Patents
Biogen, US Patents
Blizzard Entertainment, US Patents
BMW Group, US Patents
Boeing, US Patents
Booz Allen Hamilton, US Patents
Bosch, US Patents
Bose, US Patents
Boston Scientific, US Patents
BP, US Patents

C

Canon, US Patents
Caterpillar Inc., US Patents
Chevron Corporation, US Patents
Cisco Systems, US Patents
Clark Construction, US Patents
The Coca-Cola Company, US Patents
Cummins Inc., US Patents

D

Daimler/Mercedes-Benz, US Patents
Dell, US Patents
Denso, US Patents
DowDuPont, US Patents assigned to Dow Chemical

E

Ecolab, US Patents
Ericsson, US Patents
ExxonMobil, US Patents

F

Facebook, US Patents
Ford Motor, US Patents
Fujitsu, US Patents

G

Genentech, US Patents
General Dynamics, US Patents
General Electric (GE), US Patents
General Motors (GM), US Patents
Google, now a part of Alphabet, US Patents

H

The Hershey Company, US Patents
Hewlett Packard, US Patents
Hitachi, US Patents
Honda Companies, US Patents
Honeywell, US Patents
Huawei, US Patents
Hyundai, US Patents

I

IBM, US Patents
IKEA, US Patents
Impinj, US Patents
Infineon, US Patents
Intel, US Patents

J

John Deere, US Patents
Johnson & Johnson, US Patents

K

Koninklijke Philips, US Patents
Kyocera, US Patents

L

Lego, US Patents
Lenovo, US Patents
LinkedIn, US Patents
Lockheed Martin Corporation, US Patents
L’Oreal, US Patents

M

3M, US Patents
Marathon Oil, US Patents
Mayo Clinic, US Patents
Merck, US Patents
Medtronic, US Patents
Micron, US Patents
Microsoft, US Patents
Mitsubishi, US Patents

N

NASA, US Patents
NEC, US Patents
Nike, US Patents
Nintendo, US Patents
Nissan, US Patents
Nokia, US Patents
Northrop Grumman, US Patents
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, US Patents
NVIDIA, US Patents
NXP, US Patents

P

Panasonic, US Patents
PepsiCo, US Patents
Pfizer, US Patents
Procter & Gamble (P&G), US Patents

O

Oracle, US Patents

Q

Qualcomm, US Patents

R

Ricoh, US Patents

S

Samsung, US Patents
Seiko Epson, US Patents
Sharp, US Patents
Shell Oil Company, US Patents
Siemens, US Patents
SK Hynix, US Patents
Sony, US Patents
Southwest Airlines, US Patents
Starbucks, US Patents
Stryker, US Patents

T

Target, US Patents
Tesla, US Patents
Texas Instruments, US Patents
Toshiba, US Patents
Toyota, US Patents

U

Uber, US Patents
Unilever, US Patents
United Airlines, US Patents
U.S. Department of Energy, US Patents
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), US Patents

V

Verizon, US Patents
Volkswagen Group, US Patents

X

Xerox, US Patents

* Employer of engineers: If you have US patents, you have two options for becoming added to this list:
1) (Free of charge) Select a college whose students you have been recruting from; request their College Placement Office to ask us to include you – we will be very happy to do so.
2) (Under development.)

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