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Qualcomm — 41,723 Patents

Rank (All Time): #17 of 105,732Top 1%
12,104 inventors
Fortune 500 #117 (2024) · Inventor 500 →
41,723 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3,871 patents in 2023.peak 3,8711996: 51 patents19961997: 47 patents1998: 85 patents1999: 119 patents19992000: 109 patents2001: 176 patents2002: 197 patents20022003: 179 patents2004: 284 patents2005: 201 patents20052006: 401 patents2007: 288 patents2008: 306 patents20082009: 391 patents2010: 772 patents2011: 1,057 patents20112012: 1,468 patents2013: 2,184 patents2014: 2,702 patents20142015: 3,035 patents2016: 3,025 patents2017: 2,680 patents20172018: 2,320 patents2019: 2,363 patents2020: 2,282 patents20202021: 2,149 patents2022: 2,636 patents2023: 3,871 patents20232024: 3,439 patents2025: 2,843 patents2025

Top Inventors at Qualcomm All Time

Showing 1–50 of 12,104 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 Tao Luo 4,169
2 Junyi Li 2,682
3 Peter Gaal 2,466
#4 Wanshi Chen 2,268
#5 Xiaoxia Zhang 2,039
#6 Jing Sun 1,688
#7 Juan Montojo 1,219
#8 Marta Karczewicz 1,089
#9 Tingfang Ji 1,064
#10 Yan Zhou 1,004
#11 Hao Xu 977
#12 Navid Abedini 755
#13 Kapil Gulati 752
#14 Seyedkianoush Hosseini 735
#15 Alberto Rico Alvarino 711
#16 Aleksandar Damnjanovic 676
#17 Gavin Bernard Horn 670
#18 Naga Bhushan 631
#19 Wooseok Nam 617
#20 Joseph Binamira Soriaga 600
#21 Yi Huang 597
#22 Alexandros MANOLAKOS 595
#23 Yongbin Wei 584
#24 Durga Prasad Malladi 580
#25 Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli 574
#26 Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN 549
#27 Srinivas Yerramalli 532
#28 Jelena Damnjanovic 531
#29 Wei Yang 529
#30 George Cherian 502
#31 Huilin XU 477
#32 Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov 476
#33 Hung Dinh LY 464
#34 Jing Jiang 463
#35 Muhammad Nazmul Islam 462
#36 Sudhir Kumar Baghel 449
#37 Xiao Feng Wang 440
#38 Taesang Yoo 438
#39 Ozcan Ozturk 406
#40 Peter Pui Lok Ang 402
#41 Jung Ho Ryu 388
#42 Rajat Prakash 365
#43 Gabi Sarkis 363
#44 Santosh Paul Abraham 362
#45 Stephen William Edge 352
#46 Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR 351
#47 Simone Merlin 349
#48 Tianyang Bai 347
#49 Vasanthan Raghavan 332
#50 Bin Tian 331

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