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Qualcomm
Qualcomm
— 41,723 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#17
of
105,732
Top 1%
12,104
inventors
Fortune 500
#117
(2024)
·
Inventor 500 →
41,723
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 3,871 patents in 2023.
peak 3,871
1996: 51 patents
1996
1997: 47 patents
1998: 85 patents
1999: 119 patents
1999
2000: 109 patents
2001: 176 patents
2002: 197 patents
2002
2003: 179 patents
2004: 284 patents
2005: 201 patents
2005
2006: 401 patents
2007: 288 patents
2008: 306 patents
2008
2009: 391 patents
2010: 772 patents
2011: 1,057 patents
2011
2012: 1,468 patents
2013: 2,184 patents
2014: 2,702 patents
2014
2015: 3,035 patents
2016: 3,025 patents
2017: 2,680 patents
2017
2018: 2,320 patents
2019: 2,363 patents
2020: 2,282 patents
2020
2021: 2,149 patents
2022: 2,636 patents
2023: 3,871 patents
2023
2024: 3,439 patents
2025: 2,843 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Qualcomm
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
12,104
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
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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