IP Ownership · Consumer Electronics
Who owns the patents on consumer electronics?
Touchscreens, smartphones, wearables, and the hardware IP that defines modern consumer devices.
Patents indexed
468
Total citations
47,640
Top-3 hold
31% of citations
Assignees ranked
10
Ranked by total forward citations — 10 companies
How Multi-Touch Screens Track Multiple Fingers at Once
US 7663607 · 1,995 citations
17%
of citations
Chester Carlson's Original Xerography Patent
US 2297691 · 737 citations
8%
of citations
How a Multi-Touch Screen Detects Multiple Fingers and Palms
US 6323846 · 2,641 citations
6%
of citations
How Canon's Bubble Jet Printers Make Ink Droplets
US 4723129 · 1,806 citations
4%
of citations
Logitech's Method for Using Two Fingers on a Touchpad
US 5825352 · 1,577 citations
3%
of citations
How Websites Get Ranked by Importance
US 6285999 · 818 citations
3%
of citations
How RSA Public-Key Encryption Keeps Digital Messages Secret
US 4405829 · 1,015 citations
3%
of citations
The Design Patent for the Original iPod Mini
US D504889 · 573 citations
3%
of citations
How Google Ads Detect Which Web Page You Are Viewing
US 7136875 · 427 citations
3%
of citations
Making Strong, Porous PTFE: The Gore-Tex Process
US 3953566 · 1,364 citations
3%
of citations
Rankings by total forward citations within PatentBrief's enriched patent corpus for the Consumer Electronics 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.