Ford Tops Google and Amazon in New U.S. Patents
- Ford broke Top 10 in recipients of patents, just behind Apple
- General Motors trailed many rivals and fell outside the Top 20
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Ford Motor Co. may be a 115-year-old industrial giant, but the company leads the likes of Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Amazon.com Inc. by one key measure of innovation.
The Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker broke into the top 10 list of U.S. patent recipients last year with 53 more than Google and 88 more than Amazon, according to an analysis of figures from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Fairview Research’s IFI Patent Claims Services. Ford trailed Apple Inc. by 37 patents.