Top 50 Key Players companies in APDS by Highest Patent Value in the world in 2020 – Discovery

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The APDS top 50 is Discovery PatSnap’ annual ranking of the top 50 Highest Patent Value APDS Key Players in the world. Discovery has identified the top key players, startups & unicorns, fast-growings, news entrants in 2020, ranking from differnt perspectives, including patent filing intensity, academic research capability, news media heat. The company list is generated from various data types.

Armour-piercing discarding sabot (APDS) is a type of kinetic energy projectile fired from a rifled-barrel gun to attack armoured targets. APDS rounds are sabot rounds, firing a spin-stabilized armor penetrating sub-projectile, and were commonly used in large calibre tank guns, up until the early 1980s, but have now been superseded by armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) projectiles used in smooth-bore guns, firing a fin-stabilized armor penetrating sub-projectile. However, APDS rounds are still commonly used in small or medium calibre weapon systems. For a given calibre, this type of ammunition can effectively double the armour penetration of a gun, compared to those firing armour-piercing (AP), armour-piercing, capped (APC), or armour-piercing, capped, ballistic capped (APCBC) projectiles. The saboted light armour penetrator (SLAP) concept applies this technology to small arms calibres.

1	Hamamatsu Photonics KK	Shizuoka, Japan	Semiconductor,Photonics,Laser, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 2.00 M
2	Koninklijke Philips NV	Noord-Holland, Netherlands	Health care,Wellness Programs,Medical imaging, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 1.89 M
3	Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	Pennsylvania, United States	Medical product,Systems design,Medicine, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 1.52 M
4	Quantum Semiconductor LLC	California, United States	Semiconductor,Industrial engineering,Electronics, ...[+1]	Avg patent value: 1.01 M
5	Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Co., Ltd.	Tokyo, Japan		Avg patent value: 750,000
6	Job, Inc.	Washington, United States		Avg patent value: 640,000
7	Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.	California, United States	Semiconductor,Software,Virtualization, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 586,666
8	Alcatel-Lucent S A	Île-de-France, France	Trust network,Software,Telecommunications, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 556,666
9	CIT GmbH	Baden-Württemberg, Germany	Document management system	Avg patent value: 556,666
10	TOSHIBA Corp.	Tokyo, Japan	Semiconductor,Computer hardware,Electronics, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 520,000
11	Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.	Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom	Photon,Single electron,Quantum cryptography, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 500,000
12	KLA Corp.	California, United States	Semiconductor,Computer hardware,Electronics, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 430,000
13	KLA-Tencor Technologies Corp.	California, United States		Avg patent value: 430,000
14	UNICORN Argo AI LLC	Pennsylvania, United States	Artificial intelligence,Public transport,Systems design, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 332,285
15	ATI Technologies ULC	California, United States	Semiconductor,Graphics processing unit,Chipset, ...[+1]	Avg patent value: 313,750
16	NXP BV	Noord-Brabant, Netherlands	Semiconductor,Semiconductor chip,Electronic component	Avg patent value: 280,000
17	Sony Group Corp.	Tokyo, Japan	Computer hardware,Software,Music, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 210,000
18	QinetiQ Ltd.	United Kingdom	Robotics,Runway,International airport, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 210,000
19	Associated Opto-Electronics Chongqing Corp.	China		Avg patent value: 210,000
20	UNICORN Waymo LLC	California, United States	Software,Simulation testing,Robotics, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 170,000
21	STMicroelectronics SA	Île-de-France, France	Semiconductor,Semiconductor chip,Electronic component, ...[+1]	Avg patent value: 120,000
22	Science & Technology Corp.	Virginia, United States	Space Science,Aerospace engineering,Systems engineering, ...[+1]	Avg patent value: 100,000
23	National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC	New Mexico, United States		Avg patent value: 90,000
24	SiFotonics Technologies (USA), Inc.	Massachusetts, United States	Semiconductor,Detector,Silicon, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 75,666
25	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP	Texas, United States	Information technology consulting,Systems design,Computer security, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 65,000
26	Infinera Corp.	California, United States	Optical communication,Optical networking,Telecommunications, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 56,000
27	UCB Pharma SA	Cataluña, Spain	Medicine,Chemical engineering,Epilepsy, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 53,000
28	Ericsson, Inc.	Texas, United States	Wireless,Telecommunications,Transmitter, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 52,000
29	ARRIS Enterprises LLC	United States	Broadband,Telecommunications,Wireless, ...[+1]	Avg patent value: 37,000
30	Canon Medical Systems Corp.	Tochigi, Japan	X-ray,Medical imaging,Medicine, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 33,000
31	Canon, Inc.	Tokyo, Japan	Computer hardware,Software,Computer vision, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 23,040
32	Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.	South Korea	Computer hardware,Semiconductor,Software, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 18,000
33	Applied Materials, Inc.	California, United States	Semiconductor,Electronics,Chemical-mechanical planarization, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 13,000
34	Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd.	Osaka, Japan		Avg patent value: 9,300
35	UNICORN Keenon Robotics Co. Ltd.	Shandong Sheng, China	Robotics,Service robot,Automation	Avg patent value: 3,500
36	Linktel Technologies Co., Ltd.	Hubei Sheng, China	Telecommunications	Avg patent value: 3,400
37	Siemens AG	Bayern, Germany	Power transmission,Electronics,Turbine, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 0
38	General Electric Co.	Massachusetts, United States	Energy management,Turbine,Electronics, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 0
39	Hitachi Ltd.	Tokyo, Japan	Elevator,Electrical equipment,Electric motor, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 0
40	Panasonic Holdings Corp.	Osaka, Japan	Semiconductor,Industrial engineering,Electronics, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 0
41	Fujitsu Ltd.	Tokyo, Japan	Cloud computing,Enterprise software,Information technology management, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 0
42	Intel Corp.	California, United States	Semiconductor,Software,Computer hardware, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 0
43	AT&T, Inc.	Texas, United States	Wireless,Telecommunications,Mobile device, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 0
44	NEC Corp.	Tokyo, Japan	Virtualization,Big data,Network security, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 0
45	Ricoh Co., Ltd.	Tokyo, Japan	Digital media,Data visualization,Thermal paper, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 0
46	Sharp Corp.	Osaka, Japan	Computer hardware,Electronics,Telecommunications, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 0
47	Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.	Tokyo, Japan	Optical fiber,Renewable energy,Optoelectronics, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 0
48	Rheinmetall AG	Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany	Aerospace,Missile,Directed-energy weapon, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 0
49	Shimadzu Corp.	Kyoto, Japan	Molecular diagnostics,Microbiology Test,Cockpit display system, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 0
50	Toyobo Co., Ltd.	Osaka, Japan	Chemical engineering,Synthetic rubber,Membrane, ...[+2]	Avg patent value: 0