diff --git a/android/androidmk.go b/android/androidmk.go
index ec3abe119..d55cdca33 100644
--- a/android/androidmk.go
+++ b/android/androidmk.go
@@ -232,6 +232,9 @@ func translateAndroidMkModule(ctx blueprint.SingletonContext, w io.Writer, mod b
 		if amod.commonProperties.Proprietary {
 			fmt.Fprintln(w, "LOCAL_PROPRIETARY_MODULE := true")
 		}
+		if amod.commonProperties.Owner != "" {
+			fmt.Fprintln(w, "LOCAL_MODULE_OWNER :=", amod.commonProperties.Owner)
+		}
 	}
 
 	if host {
diff --git a/android/module.go b/android/module.go
index 6474e47d6..cc420fbbd 100644
--- a/android/module.go
+++ b/android/module.go
@@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ type commonProperties struct {
 	// whether this is a proprietary vendor module, and should be installed into /vendor
 	Proprietary bool
 
+	// vendor who owns this module
+	Owner string
+
 	// *.logtags files, to combine together in order to generate the /system/etc/event-log-tags
 	// file
 	Logtags []string
diff --git a/androidmk/cmd/androidmk/android.go b/androidmk/cmd/androidmk/android.go
index 8d46a78ef..75c3eecd9 100644
--- a/androidmk/cmd/androidmk/android.go
+++ b/androidmk/cmd/androidmk/android.go
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ func init() {
 			"LOCAL_MODULE_RELATIVE_PATH": "relative_install_path",
 			"LOCAL_PROTOC_OPTIMIZE_TYPE": "proto.type",
 			"LOCAL_HEADER_LIBRARIES":     "header_libs",
+			"LOCAL_MODULE_OWNER":         "owner",
 		})
 	addStandardProperties(bpparser.ListType,
 		map[string]string{