MPEG LA
Organization Active patents Expired patents Total patents
Panasonic Corporation 1,137 60 1,197
Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1,111 19 1,130
LG Electronics 949 41 990
Dolby Laboratories 759 16 775
Toshiba 358 33 391
Microsoft 208 7 215
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone ( including NTT Docomo ) 187 2 189
Sony 116 31 147
Fraunhofer Society 125 16 141
Google 136 3 139
GE Video Compression 136 0 136
Fujitsu 102 4 106
Mitsubishi Electric 54 50 104
Tagivan II LLC 77 0 77
Samsung Electronics 23 40 63
Maxell 51 2 53
Philips 5 39 44
Vidyo 41 2 43
Ericsson 34 0 34
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute ( ETRI ) of Korea 32 0 32
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC licensors
The following organizations hold one or more patents in MPEG LA 's H.264/AVC patent pool .
MPEG LA is an American company based in Denver, Colorado that licenses patent pools covering essential patents required for use of the MPEG-2, MPEG-4, IEEE 1394, VC-1, ATSC, MVC, MPEG-2 Systems, AVC/H.264 and HEVC standards.