Apple had a pretty good year for patent grants, but not its best

Apple's research and development work made it the seventh-biggest recipient of granted U.S. patents in 2023, but it's not as high as its 2020 record.A detail from an Apple patent application for a modular MacBook ProAs a major tech company, Apple habitually files many patent applications every week, and is known as one of the biggest companies in the United States to do so. In a report of the 2023 patent landscape, Apple is shown to be very high up in the patent food chain.According to IDI Claims' 2023 Top 50 U.S. Patent Assignees rankings, which covers companies registering intellectual property in the United States, Apple is seventh on the overall list. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums