Communications and networks Patent Leaders 2016

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: 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

Patents per Year

Top Inventors

Rank ↑	Inventor ↕	Patents ↕	Primary Company ↕
1	Hanbyul Seo	180	LG
2	Marta Karczewicz	118	Qualcomm
3	Kijun Kim	104	LG
#4	Joonkui Ahn	103	LG
#5	Peter Gaal	100	Qualcomm
#6	Seunghee Han	97	LG
#7	Akihiko Nishio	96	Panasonic
#8	Hakseong Kim	96	LG
#9	Wanshi Chen	95	Qualcomm
#10	Jae Hoon Chung	94	LG
#11	Suckchel Yang	92	LG
#12	Jean-Philippe Vasseur	91	Cisco
#13	Joon Kui Ahn	91	LG
#14	Dongyoun Seo	88	LG
#15	Daichi Imamura	85	Panasonic
#16	Dong Youn Seo	81	LG
#17	Seung Hee Han	81	LG
#18	Jaehoon Chung	74	LG
#19	Joon-Young Cho	74	Samsung
#20	Santosh Paul Abraham	74	Qualcomm
#21	Tao Luo	72	Qualcomm
#22	Juan Montojo	69	Qualcomm
#23	Seigo Nakao	69	Panasonic
#24	Sunghoon Jung	69	LG
#25	Young Dae Lee	69	LG
#26	Youngdae Lee	69	LG
#27	Hongyuan Zhang	68	Disney
#28	Muhammad Kazmi	68	Ericsson
#29	Ying Chen	68	Qualcomm
#30	Seungjune Yi	67	LG
#31	Simone Merlin	67	Qualcomm
#32	Sungjun Park	67	LG
#33	Soeng-Hun Kim	64	Samsung
#34	Sung Jun Park	64	LG
#35	Ye-Kui Wang	64	Qualcomm
#36	Yong Ho Seok	63	LG
#37	Hangyu Cho	62	LG
#38	Seung June Yi	61	LG
#39	Dae Won Lee	59	LG
#40	George Cherian	58	Qualcomm
#41	Hao Xu	58	Qualcomm
#42	Suck Chel Yang	58	LG
#43	Jong-Kae Fwu	57	Intel
#44	Kyeong-In Jeong	57	Samsung
#45	Sung Duck Chun	55	LG
#46	Mo-Han Fong	53	Apple
#47	Aris Papasakellariou	52	Samsung
#48	Daniel Vivanco	52	AT&T
#49	Aleksandar Damnjanovic	51	Qualcomm
#50	Durga Prasad Malladi	51	Qualcomm
#51	Gert Jan Van Lieshout	51	Samsung
#52	Yongbin Wei	51	Qualcomm
#53	Siddharth S. Oroskar	50	Sprint Spectrum
#54	Zhijun Cai	50	Blackberry Limited
#55	Byeungwoo Jeon	49	Sk Telecom Co.
#56	Haekwang Kim	49	Sk Telecom Co.
#57	Jonathan W. Hui	49	Cisco
#58	Joohee Moon	49	Sk Telecom Co.
#59	Yunglyul Lee	49	Sk Telecom Co.
#60	Eric Jason Brandwine	48	Amazon
#61	Bonghoe Kim	47	LG
#62	Jasinder P. Singh	47	Sprint Spectrum
#63	Jonghyun Park	47	LG
#64	Yeong Hyeon Kwon	47	LG
#65	Youji Shibahara	47	Sun Patent Trust
#66	Hisao Sasai	46	Sun Patent Trust
#67	Moon Il Lee	46	LG
#68	Satoshi Nagata	45	Ntt Docomo
#69	Seungmin LEE	45	LG
#70	Takahiro NISHI	45	Panasonic
#71	Tingfang Ji	45	Qualcomm
#72	Hemanth Sampath	44	Qualcomm
#73	Il-koo Kim	44	Samsung
#74	Jeyhan Karaoguz	44	Broadcom
#75	Junyi Li	44	Qualcomm
#76	Paul Marinier	44	Interdigital Patent Holdings
#77	Bin Chul Ihm	43	LG
#78	Byounghoon Kim	42	LG
#79	Jeongyeon Lim	42	Sk Telecom Co.
#80	Jin-Kyu Han	42	Samsung
#81	Ju-Ho Lee	42	Samsung
#82	Masayuki Hoshino	42	Panasonic
#83	Min Seok Noh	42	LG
#84	Peiying Zhu	42	Apple
#85	Soo Mi Oh	42	Infobridge Pte.
#86	Toshiyasu SUGIO	42	Sun Patent Trust
#87	Wen Tong	42	Apple
#88	Yunjung Yi	42	LG
#89	Bong Hoe Kim	41	LG
#90	Ki Jun Kim	41	LG
#91	Maulik K. Shah	41	Sprint Spectrum
#92	Jinsam Kwak	40	Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology
#93	Moonock Yang	40	Infobridge Pte.
#94	Patrick J. O'Sullivan	40	IBM
#95	Shoichi Suzuki	40	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
#96	Stephen E. Terry	40	Interdigital Technology
#97	Sung Hoon Jung	40	LG
#98	Vadim Seregin	40	Qualcomm
#99	Yongho Seok	40	LG
#100	Casimer M. DeCusatis	39	IBM

Top Companies

Rank ↑	Company ↕	Patents ↕
1	Samsung	1,896
2	Qualcomm	1,837
3	LG	1,618
#4	IBM	1,411
#5	Ericsson	1,377
#6	Intel	1,148
#7	Google	1,021
#8	Huawei	977
#9	Canon	919
#10	AT&T	875
#11	Sony	855
#12	Cisco	828
#13	Broadcom	718
#14	Microsoft	675
#15	Apple	662
#16	Fujitsu Limited	616
#17	Amazon	564
#18	Panasonic	529
#19	Alcatel Lucent	473
#20	Nec	450
#21	Blackberry Limited	449
#22	Verizon	434
#23	Zte	418
#24	Nokia Technologies Oy	413
#25	Disney	412
#26	KAIST	331
#27	Ricoh Company	287
#28	Futurewei Technologies	249
#29	Sprint Communications	241
#30	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha	217
#31	Juniper Networks	209
#32	Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy	200
#33	Sprint Spectrum	200
#34	Ntt Docomo	193
#35	Texas Instruments	188
#36	Kyocera	186
#37	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	183
#38	Brother Kogyo	182
#39	Meta	174
#40	Thomson Licensing	173
#41	Mediatek	152
#42	Kyocera Document Solutions	151
#43	Interdigital Patent Holdings	146
#44	Dell Products	144
#45	Oracle	142
#46	Avaya	141
#47	Hewlett Packard Enterprise	140
#48	Mitsubishi Electric	135
#49	Olympus	135
#50	Koniniklijke Philips N.V.	134
#51	Tencent	134
#52	Aol	133
#53	Motorola	133
#54	Emc	126
#55	Comcast	122
#56	Unknown	118
#57	Sun Patent Trust	117
#58	Echostar Technologies L.L.C.	114
#59	Level 3 Communications	112
#60	Hitachi	111
#61	Citrix Systems	104
#62	Htc	103
#63	Cellco Partnership	100
#64	Fujifilm Business Innovation	100
#65	HP	100
#66	Fujifilm	97
#67	The Boeing	96
#68	Arris Enterprises	95
#69	Aruba Networks	92
#70	Dolby Laboratories Licensing	92
#71	Empire Technology Development	89
#72	Rovi Guides	83
#73	AMD	81
#74	Kt	79
#75	Sk Telecom Co.	79
#76	Adobe	78
#77	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	78
#78	The Nielsen Company (Us)	77
#79	ITRI	76
#80	Seiko Epson	76
#81	Ciena	74
#82	Interdigital Technology	74
#83	Telecommunication Systems	74
#84	Xerox	73
#85	General Motors	72
#86	Foxconn	71
#87	Sap Se	70
#88	Konica Minolta	69
#89	Bank of America	69
#90	Robert Bosch Gmbh	67
#91	RTX (Raytheon)	66
#92	Fortinet	65
#93	Nxp B.V.	64
#94	Honeywell	64
#95	China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology	61
#96	NVIDIA	61
#97	Casio Computer Co.	60
#98	Directv	60
#99	Siemens Aktiengesellschaft	59
#100	St-Ericsson Sa	59

Communications and networks Patent Leaders in 2016 2016

Patents per Year

Top Inventors

Top Companies