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Remote Software/Firmware Updates
Systems and methods for securely and reliably delivering, installing, and managing software or firmware updates to distributed or embedded devices, often considering network conditions, resource constraints, or storage repartitioning.
7,914 US filings from 1,334 companies since 2023 · 2023: 1,970 · 2024: 2,597 · 2025: 2,319 · 2026 YTD: 1,028
Software Development & Compilers
Top companies
Ranked by filings in this theme since 2023. 2026 is partial.
| # | Company | Since 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 YTD | YoY |
|---|
| 1 | DELL PRODUCTS L.P. | 794 | 155 | 275 | 264 | 100 | -4.0% |
| 2 | TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 251 | 48 | 111 | 65 | 27 | -41.4% |
| 3 | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | 199 | 55 | 70 | 61 | 13 | -12.9% |
| 4 | International Business Machines Corporation | 177 | 56 | 63 | 39 | 19 | -38.1% |
| 5 | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. | 115 | 24 | 42 | 33 | 16 | -21.4% |
| 6 | VMware, Inc. | 110 | 69 | 38 | 2 | 1 | -94.7% |
| 7 | Bank of America Corporation | 105 | 20 | 25 | 41 | 19 | +64.0% |
| 8 | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | 101 | 33 | 37 | 17 | 14 | -54.1% |
| 9 | INTEL CORPORATION | 101 | 22 | 38 | 27 | 14 | -28.9% |
| 10 | Red Hat, Inc. | 99 | 20 | 35 | 24 | 20 | -31.4% |
| 11 | Capital One Services, LLC | 88 | 17 | 27 | 25 | 19 | -7.4% |
| 12 | DENSO CORPORATION | 87 | 17 | 36 | 21 | 13 | -41.7% |
| 13 | Hyundai Motor Company | 86 | 22 | 32 | 17 | 15 | -46.9% |
| 14 | SAP SE | 85 | 28 | 22 | 25 | 10 | +13.6% |
| 15 | CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 83 | 22 | 27 | 22 | 12 | -18.5% |
| 16 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP | 81 | 21 | 35 | 15 | 10 | -57.1% |
| 17 | Kia Corporation | 81 | 18 | 31 | 17 | 15 | -45.2% |
| 18 | GOOGLE LLC | 79 | 30 | 20 | 22 | 7 | +10.0% |
| 19 | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | 73 | 14 | 31 | 18 | 10 | -41.9% |
| 20 | HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P. | 68 | 22 | 29 | 12 | 5 | -58.6% |
| 21 | HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD. | 68 | 14 | 19 | 24 | 11 | +26.3% |
| 22 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 60 | 22 | 15 | 19 | 4 | +26.7% |
| 23 | Salesforce, Inc. | 55 | 7 | 23 | 17 | 8 | -26.1% |
| 24 | Cisco Technology, Inc. | 51 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 13 | +46.2% |
| 25 | Apple Inc. | 47 | 11 | 18 | 14 | 4 | -22.2% |