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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Communications and networks Patent Leaders All Time

Primary CPC class H04 · Section H

Rankings count each patent once by its primary Cooperative Patent Classification. All-time pages aggregate the full database; year pages use patent grant year.

Recent years: 2016201720182019202020212022202320242025

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 51,030 patents in 2019.peak 51,0301996: 6,747 patents19961997: 6,337 patents1998: 10,080 patents1999: 10,587 patents19992000: 10,973 patents2001: 11,337 patents2002: 11,916 patents20022003: 12,705 patents2004: 14,571 patents2005: 13,485 patents20052006: 20,135 patents2007: 17,756 patents2008: 19,490 patents20082009: 21,653 patents2010: 28,073 patents2011: 30,601 patents20112012: 38,426 patents2013: 41,459 patents2014: 46,526 patents20142015: 45,241 patents2016: 46,242 patents2017: 48,451 patents20172018: 46,477 patents2019: 51,030 patents2020: 49,952 patents20202021: 44,271 patents2022: 43,438 patents2023: 42,594 patents20232024: 44,056 patents2025: 44,086 patents2025

Top Inventors

Rank ↑ Inventor ↕ Patents ↕ Primary Company ↕
1 Tao Luo 4,315 Qualcomm
2 Junyi Li 2,719 Qualcomm
3 Peter Gaal 2,484 Qualcomm
#4 Wanshi Chen 2,270 Qualcomm
#5 Xiaoxia Zhang 2,021 Qualcomm
#6 Esmael Hejazi Dinan 1,896 Ofinno
#7 Hanbyul Seo 1,768 LG
#8 Jing Sun 1,691 Qualcomm
#9 Shan Liu 1,454 Tencent America
#10 Yunjung Yi 1,374 LG
#11 Suckchel Yang 1,259 LG
#12 Juan Montojo 1,223 Qualcomm
#13 Kijun Kim 1,164 LG
#14 Joonkui Ahn 1,163 LG
#15 Takahiro NISHI 1,119 Panasonic
#16 Marta Karczewicz 1,084 Qualcomm
#17 Tingfang Ji 1,049 Qualcomm
#18 Seungmin LEE 1,042 LG
#19 Yan Zhou 1,024 Qualcomm
#20 Sony Akkarakaran 998 —
#21 Hao Xu 989 Qualcomm
#22 Dawei Zhang 965 Apple
#23 Li Zhang 954 Bytedance
#24 Hongyuan Zhang 891 Disney
#25 Satoshi Nagata 884 Ntt Docomo
#26 Kai Zhang 874 Bytedance
#27 Kyungmin Park 866 Ofinno
#28 Hua Zhou 853 Ofinno
#29 Youngdae Lee 831 LG
#30 Akihiko Nishio 829 Panasonic
#31 Hong He 813 Apple
#32 Navid Abedini 778 Qualcomm
#33 Wei Zeng 763 Apple
#34 Alireza Babaei 760 Ofinno
#35 Yushu Zhang 757 Apple
#36 Hidetoshi Suzuki 756 Panasonic
#37 Kazuki Takeda 745 Ntt Docomo
#38 Xiang Li 742 Tencent America
#39 Seyedkianoush Hosseini 732 Qualcomm
#40 Alberto Rico Alvarino 715 Qualcomm
#41 Jiwon Kang 712 LG
#42 Jean-Philippe Vasseur 709 Cisco
#43 Kapil Gulati 706 Qualcomm
#44 Soenghun Kim 704 Samsung
#45 Daichi Imamura 699 Panasonic
#46 Gavin Bernard Horn 699 Qualcomm
#47 Jonghyun Park 697 LG
#48 Ye-Kui Wang 690 Qualcomm
#49 Hyoungsuk Jeon 685 Ofinno
#50 Aleksandar Damnjanovic 684 Qualcomm
#51 Young Dae Lee 684 LG
#52 Haitong Sun 683 Apple
#53 Jianglei Ma 679 Huawei
#54 Moon Il Lee 673 LG
#55 Tadamasa TOMA 656 Panasonic
#56 Seung June Yi 653 LG
#57 Woosuk KO 653 LG
#58 Jae Hoon Chung 650 LG
#59 Seung Hee Han 649 LG
#60 Xin Zhao 646 Tencent America
#61 Seonwook KIM 645 LG
#62 Sung Duck Chun 644 LG
#63 Muhammad Kazmi 635 Ericsson
#64 Hui-Ling Lou 631 Disney
#65 Jinsoo CHOI 629 LG
#66 Seigo Nakao 629 Panasonic
#67 Hongbin Liu 626 Bytedance
#68 Robert Baldemair 621 Ericsson
#69 Hyunsoo Ko 620 LG
#70 Wooseok Nam 615 Qualcomm
#71 Joon Kui Ahn 613 LG
#72 Toshiyasu SUGIO 613 Sun Patent Trust
#73 Paul Marinier 610 Interdigital Patent Holdings
#74 Seunghwan KIM 610 LG
#75 Naga Bhushan 609 Qualcomm
#76 Jeyhan Karaoguz 607 Broadcom
#77 Kiyofumi Abe 603 Panasonic
#78 Jin Soo Choi 601 KAIST
#79 Hisao Sasai 596 Sun Patent Trust
#80 Yi Huang 596 Qualcomm
#81 Yutaka Murakami 595 Panasonic
#82 Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN 594 Qualcomm
#83 Jin Ho Lee 587 KAIST
#84 Sung Jun Park 585 LG
#85 Yongbin Wei 578 Qualcomm
#86 Hui Yong KIM 577 KAIST
#87 Jinsam Kwak 576 Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology
#88 Oghenekome Oteri 576 Apple
#89 Seungjune Yi 575 LG
#90 Durga Prasad Malladi 574 Qualcomm
#91 Huaning Niu 573 Apple
#92 Stephen E. Terry 573 Interdigital Technology
#93 Jianle Chen 569 Huawei
#94 Gert Jan Van Lieshout 568 Samsung
#95 Hwan-Joon Kwon 568 Qualcomm
#96 Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli 565 Qualcomm
#97 Sunghoon Jung 564 LG
#98 Jelena Damnjanovic 562 Qualcomm
#99 Joseph Binamira Soriaga 559 Qualcomm
#100 Youji Shibahara 556 Sun Patent Trust

Top Companies

Rank ↑ Company ↕ Patents ↕
1 Samsung 34,289
2 Qualcomm 29,886
3 IBM 23,579
#4 Sony 23,577
#5 LG 22,521
#6 Ericsson 22,354
#7 AT&T 22,212
#8 Canon 21,651
#9 Huawei 20,374
#10 Cisco 16,566
#11 Intel 15,412
#12 Microsoft 12,943
#13 Fujitsu Limited 12,894
#14 Apple 11,991
#15 Nec 11,608
#16 Broadcom 9,625
#17 Panasonic 9,523
#18 Google 8,147
#19 Motorola 7,259
#20 Amazon 6,876
#21 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 6,715
#22 Nokia 6,704
#23 Verizon 5,967
#24 KAIST 5,902
#25 HP 5,471
#26 Ricoh Company 5,460
#27 Alcatel Lucent 5,132
#28 Disney 5,094
#29 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 5,038
#30 Sumitomo Electric Industries 4,876
#31 Hitachi 4,845
#32 Zte 4,686
#33 Nortel Networks Limited 4,085
#34 Ntt Docomo 3,986
#35 Texas Instruments 3,980
#36 Juniper Networks 3,815
#37 Oracle 3,809
#38 Mitsubishi Electric 3,659
#39 Nokia Technologies Oy 3,620
#40 Blackberry Limited 3,455
#41 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 3,343
#42 Seiko Epson 3,074
#43 Comcast 2,978
#44 OPPO 2,877
#45 Sprint Communications 2,866
#46 Brother Kogyo 2,818
#47 Xerox 2,808
#48 Meta 2,785
#49 Fujifilm Business Innovation 2,631
#50 Thomson Licensing 2,483
#51 Unknown 2,412
#52 Dell Products 2,366
#53 Futurewei Technologies 2,248
#54 Level 3 Communications 2,190
#55 T-Mobile Usa 2,186
#56 Kyocera 2,184
#57 Mediatek 2,180
#58 U.S. Philips 2,164
#59 Avaya 2,136
#60 Research In Motion Limited 2,119
#61 Sprint Spectrum 2,115
#62 AMD 2,111
#63 Interdigital Patent Holdings 2,078
#64 NTT 2,074
#65 Eastman Kodak 2,035
#66 Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy 1,935
#67 Interdigital Technology 1,933
#68 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 1,910
#69 Tencent 1,891
#70 Fujifilm 1,844
#71 Bank of America 1,803
#72 Philips 1,781
#73 Motorola Mobility 1,644
#74 Arris Enterprises 1,618
#75 NVIDIA 1,531
#76 GE 1,467
#77 Sun Patent Trust 1,455
#78 Aol 1,454
#79 Tencent America 1,441
#80 Kyocera Document Solutions 1,414
#81 Ciena 1,413
#82 Alcatel 1,406
#83 Olympus 1,394
#84 Rovi Guides 1,393
#85 Xiaomi 1,362
#86 Robert Bosch Gmbh 1,356
#87 Honeywell 1,328
#88 Citrix Systems 1,327
#89 Dolby Laboratories Licensing 1,302
#90 The Nielsen Company (Us) 1,284
#91 The Boeing 1,267
#92 Sanyo Electric Co. 1,243
#93 Infineon Technologies Ag 1,239
#94 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 1,192
#95 Foxconn 1,184
#96 Nxp B.V. 1,149
#97 British Telecommunications Public Limited 1,128
#98 Stmicroelectronics Sa 1,126
#99 Vivo Mobile Communication Co. 1,121
#100 Nikon 1,105