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Francesco Grilli — 104 Patents

Qualcomm: 102 patents #236 of 12,104Top 2%
QIQulacomm Incorporated: 1 patents #1 of 24Top 5%
Village of La Jolla, CA: #25 of 2,316 inventorsTop 2%
California: #2,097 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #13,407 of 4,157,543Top 1%
104 Patents All Time
Francesco Grilli has been granted 104 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qualcomm. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in December 2025. Francesco Grilli ranks #13,407 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.32%). Patent records list Francesco Grilli in Village of La Jolla, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 18 patents in 2012.peak 182002: 1 patents20022004: 5 patents2005: 3 patents20052006: 5 patents2007: 5 patents20072008: 5 patents2009: 4 patents20092010: 5 patents2011: 7 patents20112012: 18 patents2013: 13 patents20132014: 11 patents2015: 6 patents20152016: 5 patents2017: 2 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 2 patents20192020: 1 patents2025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 104 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12493124 Satellite positioning for satellite-based communications Kannan MUTHURAMAN, Moi RIBA, Prashant Singh, Ricky Tai, Robert M. Blumstein +1 more 2025-12-09
12445192 Mobile device orientation guidance for satellite-based communications Kannan MUTHURAMAN, Udayan Murli Bhawnani, Jonathan Kies, Manu Singh, Jung-Nam Han +5 more 2025-10-14
12439324 Geofencing for satellite communication in the absence of terrestrial networks Kannan MUTHURAMAN, Gurmeet Singh, Robert M. Blumstein, Ricky Tai, Murthy S. Vempati +2 more 2025-10-07
12395237 Assistance data for orienting a mobile device for satellite-based communications Kannan MUTHURAMAN 2025-08-19
10595214 Identifying, avoiding, and/or allowing limited access to sub-optimal cells Arvind Santhanam, Simon Walke, Venkata Potnuru, Vikas Gulati, Neha Goel 2020-03-17 $13,306,000
10334559 PICH-HS timing and operation Aziz Gholmieh, Etienne F. Chaponniere, Oronzo Flore 2019-06-25 $12,473,000
10264550 PICH-HS timing and operation Aziz Gholmieh, Etienne F. Chaponniere, Oronzo Flore 2019-04-16 $21,607,000
10091762 System information modification notification and detection in wireless communications Masato Kitazoe, Nathan Edward Tenny 2018-10-02 $9,965,000
9888492 Compressed mode operation and power control with discontinuous transmission and/or reception Aziz Gholmieh, Etienne F. Chaponniere, Juan Montojo, Nathan Edward Tenny 2018-02-06 $25,183,000
9680313 Authorized based receipt of wireless power Roger Wayne Martin, MaryBeth Selby, David Maldonado, Stein A. Lundby, Peng Li +3 more 2017-06-13 $7,359,000
9615401 Methods and apparatus for updating a device configuration Nieyan Geng, Gurvinder Singh Chhabra, Thomas Klingenbrunn, Shyamal Ramachandran, Uttam Pattanayak 2017-04-04 $11,369,000
9480003 Apparatus and method for determining cell suitability for a wireless device in a communication system Salil Sawhney, Francesco Pica, Nathan Edward Tenny 2016-10-25 $14,056,000
9379835 Method of network management by assistance from terminal using control-plane signaling between terminal and network Osok Song, Masato Kitazoe, Oronzo Flore, Anjali Mishra 2016-06-28 $6,586,000
9332475 Handover mechanism that exploits uplink channel quality of a target cell Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Durga Prasad Malladi 2016-05-03 $8,023,000
9307565 Selective bearer establishment in E-UTRAN/EPS Osok Song 2016-04-05 $8,019,000
9247515 Enhanced mobility support for wireless communication Dino Flore, Durga Prasad Malladi, Etienne F. Chaponniere 2016-01-26 $6,427,000
9166875 Method and apparatus for network optimization using SON solutions Anjali Mishra, Masato Kitazoe, Oronzo Flore, Thomas B. Wilborn 2015-10-20 $6,386,000
9130702 Downlink flow control Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, Arnaud Meylan, Etienne F. Chaponniere, Shailesh Maheshwari, Thomas Klingenbrunn 2015-09-08 $3,847,000
9125139 Mobile access in a diverse access point network Aziz Gholmieh, Nathan Edward Tenny, Samer S. Zreiq, Shlomo Nizri 2015-09-01 $5,790,000
9008655 Notification of modification of system information in a wireless communication system Masato Kitazoe, Nathan Edward Tenny 2015-04-14 $11,978,000
8971181 Compressed mode operation and power control with discontinuous transmission and/or reception Aziz Gholmieh, Etienne F. Chaponniere, Juan Montojo, Nathan Edward Tenny 2015-03-03 $7,626,000
8942713 Method and apparatus for allocating resources in a multicast/broadcast communications system Nathan Edward Tenny, Masato Kitazoe 2015-01-27 $5,677,000
8923814 Method and apparatus for security activation in wireless communications network Masato Kitazoe, Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, Nathan Edward Tenny 2014-12-30 $8,161,000
8917598 Downlink flow control Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, Arnaud Meylan, Etienne F. Chaponniere, Shailesh Maheshwari, Thomas Klingenbrunn 2014-12-23 $20,231,000
8891489 Handover mechanism that exploits uplink channel quality of a target cell Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Durga Prasad Malladi 2014-11-18 $7,522,000