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John Edward Smee — 250 Patents

Qualcomm: 245 patents #92 of 12,104Top 1%
PUPrinceton University: 1 patents #543 of 1,197Top 50%
San Diego, CA: #90 of 23,606 inventorsTop 1%
California: #354 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #2,003 of 4,157,543Top 1%
250 Patents All Time
John Edward Smee has been granted 250 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qualcomm. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in December 2025. John Edward Smee ranks #2,003 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.05%). Patent records list John Edward Smee in San Diego, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 35 patents in 2020.peak 352002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents2005: 3 patents20052006: 14 patents2007: 4 patents2008: 6 patents20082009: 2 patents2010: 2 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 5 patents2013: 9 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 3 patents2016: 3 patents2017: 15 patents20172018: 32 patents2019: 34 patents2020: 35 patents20202021: 26 patents2022: 17 patents2023: 13 patents20232024: 13 patents2025: 7 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 250 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12489594 Mixed waveform communications Danlu Zhang, Jie Jiang, Jun Ma, Seyekianoush Hosseini, Wei Yang +2 more 2025-12-02
12445335 Low peak-to-average power ratio waveform generation Seyekianoush Hosseini, Jie Jiang, Wei Yang, Gabi Sarkis, Peter Gaal 2025-10-14
12335848 Uplink control channel resource allocation Renqiu Wang, Yi Huang, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Wei Yang 2025-06-17
12298381 Monostatic radar with progressive length transmission Sungwoo Park, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo +6 more 2025-05-13
12289611 Beam management for radio frequency sensing Sungwoo Park, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo +6 more 2025-04-29
12241959 Beam management for bistatic air interface based radio frequency sensing in millimeter wave systems Sungwoo Park, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo +6 more 2025-03-04
12200509 Using base stations for air-interface-based environment sensing without user equipment assistance Sungwoo Park, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo +6 more 2025-01-14
12081301 Closed-loop intelligent controlled transmission (CLICT) and enhancement with distributed source coding Jing Jiang, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Vinayak Suresh, Yu Zhang, Tingfang Ji 2024-09-03 $17,454,000
12068901 Techniques for peak-to-average-power-ratio reduction in a discrete Fourier transform domain for wireless waveforms Jing Jiang, Peter Gaal, Pushkar Bajirao Kulkarni, Hari Sankar, Sanghoon Kim +1 more 2024-08-20 $15,229,000
12047993 Apparatus and method for synchronous multiplexing and multiple access for different latency targets utilizing thin control Tingfang Ji, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Naga Bhushan, Peter Gaal, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov +4 more 2024-07-23 $12,759,000
12047310 Reference signal design based on semi-uniform pilot spacing Jing Jiang, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Huilin XU +3 more 2024-07-23 $12,759,000
12004129 Self-contained time division duplex (TDD) subframe structure Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Naga Bhushan, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Jing Jiang 2024-06-04 $20,902,000
11997656 Self-contained time division duplex (TDD) subframe structure Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Naga Bhushan, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Jing Jiang 2024-05-28 $21,078,000
11991740 Radio unit sharing techniques in wireless communications Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Douglas Knisely, Rajat Prakash, Abhishek Saurabh SACHIDANAND SINHA 2024-05-21 $20,409,000
11953578 Single sided beam management for bistatic air interface based radio frequency sensing in millimeter wave systems Sungwoo Park, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo +6 more 2024-04-09 $17,363,000
11950241 Self-contained time division duplex (TDD) subframe structure for wireless communications Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Naga Bhushan, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Peter Gaal +1 more 2024-04-02 $17,562,000
11950220 Sidelink carrier aggregation cross carrier scheduling Sony Akkarakaran, Jung Ho Ryu, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Peter Gaal +4 more 2024-04-02 $17,562,000
11916826 Reciprocal channel sounding reference signal multiplexing Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Jing Jiang, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Pavan Kumar Vitthaladevuni, Naga Bhushan +1 more 2024-02-27 $8,597,000
11910325 Low power scheduling Peter Pui Lok Ang, Tingfang Ji, Jing Jiang, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Joseph Binamira Soriaga +1 more 2024-02-20 $8,835,000
11889462 Systems and methods for bi-static radio-based object location detection Sungwoo Park, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo +5 more 2024-01-30 $8,604,000
11832230 Apparatus and method for inter-band pairing of carriers for time division duplex transmit- and receive-switching and its application to multiplexing of different transmission time Tingfang Ji, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Naga Bhushan, Peter Gaal, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov +4 more 2023-11-28 $9,697,000
11818661 Low power scheduling Peter Pui Lok Ang, Tingfang Ji, Jing Jiang, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Joseph Binamira Soriaga +1 more 2023-11-14 $14,245,000
11777679 Techniques for unified synchronization channel design in new radio Hung Dinh LY, Tingfang Ji, Heechoon Lee, Haitong Sun 2023-10-03 $8,168,000
11743894 Subframe structure with embedded control signaling Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Jing Jiang, Tingfang Ji, Jamie Menjay Lin, Joseph Binamira Soriaga 2023-08-29 $8,546,000
11711762 Dynamic bandwidth switching for reducing power consumption in wireless communication devices Peter Pui Lok Ang, Joseph Patrick Burke, Tingfang Ji, Naga Bhushan, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli +1 more 2023-07-25 $14,615,000