# Qualcomm received more US patents in 2025 than any other S&P 500 company Published 2026-11-07 · By Pushbuild · Data: [Patents by Ticker API – Patent Grant Pace and 13F Holders](https://pushbuild.com/apis/patents-by-ticker.html) **500**Qualcomm received more US patents in 2025 than any other S&P · as of 2026-11-07 **Qualcomm was granted 3,876 US patents in 2025, ahead of Apple's 3,503 and Alphabet's 2,454. IBM, the leader for decades, received 2,314, down from 9,526 in 2019.** “The Open Data Portal (ODP) is USPTO's data platform that empowers you to discover and easily extract USPTO data in one place for free.” — [USPTO Open Data Portal](https://data.uspto.gov/) | Ticker | Company | 2019 | 2025 | Change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QCOM | QUALCOMM INC/DE | 2,502 | 3,876 | +54.9% | | AAPL | Apple Inc. | 3,140 | 3,503 | +11.6% | | GOOG | Alphabet Inc. | 2,975 | 2,454 | -17.5% | | IBM | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP | 9,526 | 2,314 | -75.7% | | INTC | INTEL CORP | 3,590 | 2,288 | -36.3% | | MSFT | MICROSOFT CORP | 3,288 | 1,803 | -45.2% | | MU | MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC | 1,267 | 1,461 | +15.3% | | AMZN | AMAZON COM INC | 2,567 | 1,458 | -43.2% | | RTX | RTX Corp | 2,392 | 1,285 | -46.3% | | NKE | NIKE, Inc. | 1,042 | 1,024 | -1.7% | | MDT | Medtronic plc | 1,361 | 982 | -27.8% | | GE | GENERAL ELECTRIC CO | 2,233 | 889 | -60.2% | | HPQ | HP INC | 2,090 | 840 | -59.8% | | AMAT | APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE | 682 | 833 | +22.1% | | BA | BOEING CO | 1,406 | 819 | -41.7% | ## Caveats USPTO grants counted under each company's current and former SEC names and patent-holding subsidiaries, as applicant or as assignee in an ownership transfer (security interests excluded), read November 7, 2026. Companies are today's S&P 500 members, so the history follows today's index, not the index of each year; Alphabet's two share classes count once. CSV: [sp500-top-patent-recipients-2025.csv](data:text/csv;base64,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) ## Sources - [USPTO Open Data Portal](https://data.uspto.gov/), read through the Pushbuild [Patents by Ticker API](https://pushbuild.com/apis/patents-by-ticker.html) on 2026-11-07 - [SEC Form 13F data sets](https://www.sec.gov/data-research/sec-markets-data/form-13f-data-sets), read through the Pushbuild [Patents by Ticker API](https://pushbuild.com/apis/patents-by-ticker.html) on 2026-11-07 Data as of 2026-11-07. Every figure in this post is in the table above and the CSV below. Download the data behind this post: [b5-sp500-top-patent-recipients-2025.csv](https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/data/b5-sp500-top-patent-recipients-2025.csv) ## Get this data Every number in this post comes from the [Patents by Ticker API – Patent Grant Pace and 13F Holders](https://pushbuild.com/apis/patents-by-ticker.html). $0.0040 per row returned; every key gets $1 of free usage each month. ``` curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/patents-by-ticker/run \ -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"ticker": "NVDA", "maxItems": 20}' ``` [API docs and key](https://pushbuild.com/apis/patents-by-ticker.html)[More analysis from this data](https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/api/patents-by-ticker/)Embed this chart Free to reuse with the credit link. Paste this HTML into your page, or use the [SVG file](https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/most-us-patents-sp500-2025/chart.svg). 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