USPTO has published 418123 patent applications along with 360625 published patents get granted in 2022.
Samsung is on the top in the race with 10921 published applications, followed by TSMC and Huawei. The main focused applications domain where most of the patent applications were landed was Electric digital data processing, Artificial Intelligence, and semiconductor devices.
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How Many Patents were Published and Granted in the US Every Month in 2022?
We are considering total records of published patent applications for comparison, the reason behind that because a patent application can take up to 18 months to get published so if we consider the recent year patent count for comparison it might be confusing to understand –
The above graph shows a comparison between the patents published vs patents granted in the US of 2022.
| Month | Published Patent Count | Granted Patent Count |
| January | 30752 | 23675 |
| February | 30441 | 27364 |
| March | 43217 | 34625 |
| April | 28292 | 28974 |
| May | 34820 | 36437 |
| June | 43414 | 27747 |
| July | 29456 | 26424 |
| August | 32457 | 36339 |
| September | 39767 | 27659 |
| October | 33632 | 29105 |
| November | 31657 | 36384 |
| December | 40218 | 25892 |
Where did the majority of US innovations come from?
The above chart shows the countries’ interest in the US market and how others are in the race for patent filing, Japan is the second highest patent filer in the US followed by China and Korea (south).
Top patent filers and innovators in the US in 2022
Top Companies
Samsung got the maximum number of patents published in the US in 2022 followed by TSMC and Huawei. The companies from the Asian region are on top by patent filing, the American companies like – IBM, Apple, Intel, Micron, and Google are also in the race that has the most published patent applications in the US in 2022.
Top Inventors
Law firms with the most patent prosecutions in the US in 2022
List of top 20 US Law firms in 2022 –
| Law Firm | Total Applications |
| ScienBiziP | 124 |
| Fish & Richardson | 123 |
| Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox | 102 |
| Perkins Coie | 89 |
| Michael Chen Law Offices | 72 |
| Womble Bond Dickinson | 72 |
| Oblon | 70 |
| Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner | 61 |
| Banner Witcoff | 53 |
| Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear | 52 |
| Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton | 51 |
| Mayer & Williams | 48 |
| Foley & Lardner | 45 |
| Dentons US Llp | 41 |
| JCIPRNET | 37 |
| Bayramoglu Law Office Llc | 35 |
| Sughrue Mion Pllc | 35 |
| Morgan, Lewis & Bockius | 32 |
| Greenberg Traurig | 31 |
| Westbridge Ip Llc | 31 |
Top technology-focused area of published patents in 2022
The focused technology topics were Communications systems & Servers, Batteries and cells, Electronic equipment, and Semiconductor device, these are the technologies area where 20% of the total published application in the US in 2022 landed. Whereas, the top Application domains worked upon were Digital data processing/application, Communication and Broadcasting, and Artificial Intelligence and which is 24% of the total published applications of 2022.
The top 10 technologies area for U.S. patent filings include
- Communications system & Server
- Batteries and cells
- Electronic equipment
- Semiconductor device
- Hemt circuits & Transistor
- Display device
- Healthcare and Pharma
- User equipment & Device material
- Si substrate
- Computer program
The top 10 application area for U.S. patent filings include
- Digital data processing/application
- Communication and Broadcasting
- Character and pattern recognition
- Material analysis
- Digital data information retrieval
- Biological models
- Image analysis
- Organic active ingredients
- Image enhancement
- Machine learning