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by InitialLastName 1552 days ago
Kodak comes up as the assignee name in ~22000 patents in the USPTO (search at [0]), only counting since 1976, so certainly incomplete. Of those, some have been superseded, some are worthless false paths, and some are incredibly valuable. The patents may be public, but nobody is going to give out the other information for free.

[0] https://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html

Edit: I forgot that patents are only valid for 20 years, but at any given moment there were still likely to be thousands of valid patents.