IP Ownership · Mechanical Engineering
Who owns the mechanical engineering patents?
Precision manufacturing, advanced materials, robotics, and mechanical system patents.
Patents indexed
369
Total citations
14,879
Top-3 hold
35% of citations
Assignees ranked
10
Ranked by total forward citations — 10 companies
How the First Nuclear Reactor Works
US 2708656 · 232 citations
16%
of citations
How Canon's Bubble Jet Printers Make Ink Droplets
US 4723129 · 1,806 citations
12%
of citations
How 3D Printers Build Objects Layer by Layer from Liquid
US 4575330 · 1,094 citations
7%
of citations
How to Make Pill Coatings That Keep Medicine Stable Over Time
US 5639476 · 1,092 citations
7%
of citations
How Machines Build 3D Objects Layer by Layer from Melting Plastic
US 5121329 · 793 citations
5%
of citations
How Stores Make Custom Products On-Demand with Remote Approval
US 4528643 · 498 citations
3%
of citations
How Piezoelectric Inkjet Printing Works
US 3946398 · 448 citations
3%
of citations
How the Modern LEGO Brick Design Works
US 3005282 · 374 citations
3%
of citations
How Keurig's Original Single-Serve Coffee Pod System Works
US 5325765 · 359 citations
2%
of citations
How Thermal Inkjet Printers Use Two-Step Heating to Shoot Ink
US 4490728 · 329 citations
2%
of citations
Rankings by total forward citations within PatentBrief's enriched patent corpus for the Mechanical Engineering technology domain. Forward citations are the industry standard proxy for patent influence and commercial importance. Coverage reflects patents currently indexed; the full USPTO corpus is larger.