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International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)

NYSE: IBM · Computer & office Equipment · Armonk, NY · filing with the SEC since 1994
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US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

167,530 patents granted to the 7 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to International Business Machines Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
167,530
166,625 utility, 799 design, 77 reissue, 27 defensive publication, 1 plant, 1 statutory invention registration, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
2,442
Against 2,754 in 2024 and 3,940 in 2023
Applications published
137,917
2,615 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
7
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Computer technology13,392
Digital communication3,321
Semiconductors2,416
IT methods for management662
Medical technology429
Audio-visual technology410
Measurement362
Control296
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy287
Basic communication processes192
Telecommunications174
Optics129
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name7 counted
International Business Machines Corporation its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 15 more under the same name are not counted (printed in JP, printed in NG, printed in FR)
163,962 granted
71,853 published
International Business Machines Corporation its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US. 4 more under the same name are not counted (printed in NY, printed in JP, printed in CN)
0 granted
63,190 published
Red Hat, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 2 more under the same name are not counted (printed in IL)
3,548 granted
616 published
Red Hat, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
2,254 published
IBM INTERNATIONAL GROUP BV a subsidiary
NL, as the owner printed on each patent
16 granted
1 published
IBM Japan Ltd. a subsidiary
JP, as the owner printed on each patent
4 granted
1 published
IBM International Group B.V. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in NL
0 granted
2 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 30, 202512,513,985CFET with independent gate control and low parasitic capacitanceSemiconductorsInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,513,980Stacked vertical transport field effect transistor with anchorsSemiconductorsInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,513,210Intelligent data movement for data residency restrictionsDigital communicationInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,513,207System and method for coordinated resource scaling in microservice-based and serverless applicationsDigital communicationInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,513,178Compound threat detection for a computing systemDigital communicationInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,513,028Orthogonal impedance tuning and feed forward equalization for segmented multiple level SST transmitterDigital communicationInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,512,672System level phase unbalancing to improve overall data center sustainabilityElectrical machinery, apparatus, energyInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,512,118Beam support for staggered modules of a tilted head in a storage systemAudio-visual technologyInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,512,089Testing cascaded deep learning pipelines comprising a speech-to-text model and a text intent classifierComputer technologyInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,511,662Generalized demand estimation for automated forecasting systemsComputer technologyInternational Business Machines Corporation
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 25, 20252025/0393482CONTROLLABLE QUBIT DEVICE WITH A SINGLE JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONSemiconductorsInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0393480SERPENTINE ELECTRODE FOR MEMORY DEVICESSemiconductorsInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0393479MRAM WITH DUAL SPACER AND TOP VIASemiconductorsInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0393477MRAM WITH RECESSED ELECTRODESSemiconductorsInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0393314VERTICAL SILICON CONTROLLED RECTIFIERSSemiconductorsInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0393282SELF-ALIGNED BACKSIDE VBPR WITH WRAP AROUND CONTACTSemiconductorsInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0393272BJT WITH BACKSIDE BASE CONTACTSemiconductorsInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0393271ASYMMETRICAL BACKSIDE CONTACT FOR SHIFTED STACKED TRANSISTORSemiconductorsInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0393265STRESSED NANOSHEET CHANNELSSemiconductorsInternational Business Machines Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0393244FORMING CONTACT IN TIGHT TIP-TO-TIP SPACESemiconductorsInternational Business Machines Corporation
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 3,144 · Semiconductors 1,094 · Digital communication 574 · IT methods for management 224 · Audio-visual technology 119 · Control 91.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

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