The top 50 patent assignees received a total of 79,052 utility grants, or 26% of all patents assigned in 2015. 42,864 unique assignees received utility grants while 6% of all patents had no assignee. The top 10 patent assignees are below:

1. International Business Machines Corp (7,355)
2. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (5,072)
3. Canon KK (4,134)
4. Qualcomm (2,900)
5. Google (2,835)
6. Toshiba Corp (2,627)
7. Sony Corp (2,455)
8. LG Electronics Inc (2,242)
9. Intel Corp (2,048)
10. Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (195)

Interesting that most are high tech companies. UNXL's patent portfolio is growing too.

UniPixel has 16 issued patents and 58 patent applications covering key technology areas.