{"format":"alysly-page/1","url":"https://alysly.com/m-and-a/","json":"https://alysly.com/json/m-and-a/index.json","lang":"en-US","title":"M&A and Patents: US Patent Grants to the Magnificent 7","description":"US patents granted each week to Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Tesla, with share of all grants and main technology field.","modified":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z","alternates":[{"lang":"de-DE","url":"https://alysly.com/de/m-and-a/","json":"https://alysly.com/json/de/m-and-a/index.json"}],"about":"Machine-readable version of the page at url. It contains the text, tables and key figures published there, but not the interactive charts and tools.","content":[{"type":"heading","level":1,"text":"M&A and Patents"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"M&A stands for mergers and acquisitions: companies are bought, sold or combined. Before a purchase, the buyer examines the target in a due diligence review, and intellectual property is part of it: which patents the company holds, how long they run and who owns them. This section starts with that layer. It counts the patents the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grants to the seven companies known as the Magnificent 7, issue by issue, from the office’s weekly Official Gazette."},{"type":"heading","level":2,"id":"alysly","text":"Alysly Data Analysis: Magnificent 7 Patents"},{"type":"heading","level":3,"id":"patents","text":"Patents Granted by Company"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In the 52 issues of the Official Gazette from Oct 21, 2025 to Oct 13, 2026, the US patent office granted 319,696 utility patents. The companies in the table received 8,951 of them, or 2.8%. Apple received the most, 2,279."},{"type":"table","caption":"US patents granted by company","columns":["Company","Utility patents","Share","Design patents","Top technology field","Filing to grant"],"rows":[[{"text":"Apple","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/apple-inc/"},"2,279","0.71%","761","G06F Electric digital data processing (22%)","2.6 yrs"],[{"text":"Alphabet","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/alphabet-inc-class-a/"},"1,904","0.60%","209","G06F Electric digital data processing (29%)","2.6 yrs"],[{"text":"Microsoft","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/microsoft-corporation/"},"1,713","0.54%","14","G06F Electric digital data processing (47%)","2.5 yrs"],[{"text":"Amazon","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/amazon-com-inc/"},"1,499","0.47%","99","G06F Electric digital data processing (28%)","2.6 yrs"],[{"text":"NVIDIA","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/nvidia-corporation/"},"1,075","0.34%","2","G06F Electric digital data processing (29%)","3.0 yrs"],[{"text":"Meta Platforms","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/meta-platforms-inc-class-a/"},"398","0.12%","39","G06F Electric digital data processing (19%)","2.6 yrs"],[{"text":"Tesla","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/tesla-inc/"},"83","0.03%","7","H01M Batteries and fuel cells (13%)","2.7 yrs"]]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Share: the company's utility patents divided by all utility patents in those issues. Technology field: CPC subclass of the main classification, with its share of the company's utility patents in brackets. Filing to grant: median in years across patents with a known filing date. As of the issue of Oct 13, 2026."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 1","href":"#dn-1"},{"type":"heading","level":3,"text":"Patents Granted in the Issue of Oct 13, 2026"},{"type":"table","caption":"Selected utility patents from the latest issue","columns":["Company","Patent","Title","Filed","Technology field"],"rows":[["Apple","US 12764883","Clad parts","Sep 6, 2022","H05K Printed circuits and casings of electric equipment"],["Apple","US 12764825","Low power data communications","Oct 19, 2021","H04W Wireless communication networks"],["Apple","US 12764814","Triggered multi-link access coordination","Dec 12, 2022","H04W Wireless communication networks"],["Alphabet","US 12765273","Impurity reduction for quantum devices","Jul 20, 2023","H10N Other electric solid-state devices"],["Microsoft","US 12764334","Securely encoding authenticity tokens into artificial intelligence (AI) generated content","Jun 5, 2024","H04N Pictorial communication and video"],["Amazon","US 12764528","Managing simultaneous use of private wireless local area networks and cellular radio-based networks","May 31, 2023","H04W Wireless communication networks"],["NVIDIA","US 12764905","Coolant connectors with embedded condensers","Jan 30, 2024","H05K Printed circuits and casings of electric equipment"],["NVIDIA","US 12764899","Tank-based dual-mode datacenter cooling system","Feb 10, 2023","H05K Printed circuits and casings of electric equipment"],["Meta Platforms","US 12764803","Systems and methods of classifying wireless devices","Dec 28, 2023","H04W Wireless communication networks"],["Tesla","US 12764907","Cold plate with integrated sliding pedestal and processing system including the same","Mar 1, 2022","H05K Printed circuits and casings of electric equipment"]]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"For each company the patent with the highest number in this issue, filled up to ten rows. Titles as published by the office."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"All grants from the last 13 issues, filterable by company, type and technology field, are in the patent screener. The stock pages of the seven companies list their five most recent utility patents in the fundamental analysis section.","links":[{"text":"patent screener","href":"https://alysly.com/tools/patent-screener/"}]},{"type":"heading","level":2,"id":"what-patent-counts-show-and-what-they-do-not","text":"What Patent Counts Show and What They Do Not"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Every grant counted here appeared in the Official Gazette for Patents, which the USPTO publishes each Tuesday. A grant is the end of a long process. The office usually publishes an application 18 months after its earliest priority date, and examination often takes longer than that, so a patent granted today reflects research from several years ago. The table above shows the median time between filing and grant for each company, measured on the patents in our data."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Two kinds of patents are kept apart. A utility patent protects a technical invention and runs for 20 years from the filing date. A design patent protects the ornamental shape of a product and, for applications filed since May 13, 2015, runs for 15 years from the grant. Apple receives far more design patents than the other six companies, most of them for on-screen user interfaces and electronic devices."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The gazette names the owner at the time of grant, not the parent group. Large companies hold patents through subsidiaries such as Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC or Amazon Technologies, Inc., and acquired companies keep their names, such as Mellanox at NVIDIA or Zoox at Amazon. Patents can change hands after the grant. The gazette does not record that, and neither does this page."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"A count says nothing about the value of a single patent. Many patents are never licensed or enforced. Others lapse early because the owner stops paying the maintenance fees, which are due 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after the grant. The data covers only the United States; patents at the European Patent Office, in China or elsewhere are not included."},{"type":"heading","level":2,"id":"patents-in-an-ma-due-diligence","text":"Patents in an M&A Due Diligence"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In a due diligence review, the buyer’s advisers usually check the intellectual property along a few questions. Does the seller own each patent, and is every transfer recorded at the patent office? How many years of protection remain in each patent family? Which licenses have been granted to others? Are there disputes over validity or infringement? Are the key inventions also protected in the countries that matter for the business? The answers usually sit in a virtual data room, where the seller places the patent lists, contracts and correspondence for the buyer to review."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The data on this page answers only a small part of that list: who received a US patent, when, and in which technology field. It is a starting point for questions, not a review of a portfolio."},{"type":"list","ordered":false,"items":[{"text":"Patent screener","href":"https://alysly.com/tools/patent-screener/"},{"text":"Magnificent 7","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/magnificent-7/"},{"text":"Stocks","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/"}]},{"type":"heading","level":2,"id":"note-legend-h","text":"Data Notes"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"How the figures on this page are produced and how current they are. All calculations run automatically and are not investment advice."},{"type":"list","ordered":true,"items":[{"id":"dn-1","text":"Grants by the US patent office from the weekly Official Gazette for Patents (public domain, source: USPTO), counted by the owner at the time of grant."}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data and methodology: Alysly · Responsible for content: Alexander Bock","links":[{"text":"Alysly","href":"https://alysly.com/methodology/"},{"text":"Alexander Bock","href":"https://alysly.com/about/"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"View all data notes","href":"https://alysly.com/notes/"}],"structured_data":[{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://alysly.com/#org","name":"Alysly","url":"https://alysly.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://alysly.com/img/icon-512.png","width":512,"height":512},"description":"Data-driven insights, transparent analysis and powerful tools for long-term investors.","email":"mail@alysly.com","contactPoint":{"@type":"ContactPoint","contactType":"customer support","email":"mail@alysly.com","availableLanguage":["de","en"]},"address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Haltern am See","postalCode":"45721","addressCountry":"DE"},"founder":{"@id":"https://alysly.com/#founder"},"sameAs":["https://www.linkedin.com/company/alyslycom/","https://www.youtube.com/@alyslycom","https://x.com/alyslycom"],"publishingPrinciples":"https://alysly.com/methodology/"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https://alysly.com/#founder","name":"Alexander Bock","jobTitle":"Founder and data analyst","url":"https://alysly.com/about/","sameAs":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/abxk/"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://alysly.com/#site","url":"https://alysly.com/","name":"Alysly","alternateName":"Alysly Investment Analysis","inLanguage":"en-US","publisher":{"@id":"https://alysly.com/#org"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/browse/?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://alysly.com/m-and-a/#webpage","url":"https://alysly.com/m-and-a/","name":"M&A and Patents – Alysly","description":"US patents granted each week to Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Tesla, with share of all grants and main technology field.","inLanguage":"en-US","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://alysly.com/#site"},"dateModified":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z","publisher":{"@id":"https://alysly.com/#org"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://alysly.com/og.png","width":1200,"height":630}}]}],"notice":"© 2026 Alysly.com. 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