The patent was originally owned and assigned to General Electric.
However, the patent is assigned to Stanford University and not to Google.
That patent was assigned to the Phonoharp Company, which he was affiliated with at the time.
The patent has been assigned to the Wind Saucer Corporation.
The patent has been assigned by the holders to Pandora Media, Inc.
The patent they obtained in 1956 was assigned to the U.S. Army.
One can also search through patents (in the case of compounds developed by businesses) to see if a patent has been assigned to a particular compound.
He said the other ranking efforts were based on whom the patents were assigned to when they were granted.
Their patent, number 5,233,520, was assigned to the United States Government.
The patent itself is assigned to Microsoft.