Communications and networks Patent Leaders 2017

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	237	LG
2	Peter Gaal	139	Qualcomm
3	Kijun Kim	122	LG
#4	Joonkui Ahn	118	LG
#5	Wanshi Chen	117	Qualcomm
#6	Woosuk KO	116	LG
#7	Suckchel Yang	111	LG
#8	Marta Karczewicz	101	Qualcomm
#9	Sungryong Hong	101	LG
#10	Hakseong Kim	98	LG
#11	Jaehoon Chung	98	LG
#12	Dongyoun Seo	96	LG
#13	Ye-Kui Wang	90	Qualcomm
#14	Sunghoon Jung	87	LG
#15	Youngdae Lee	84	LG
#16	Seunghee Han	83	LG
#17	Tao Luo	82	Qualcomm
#18	Yunjung Yi	82	LG
#19	Hao Xu	81	Qualcomm
#20	Akihiko Nishio	80	Panasonic
#21	Seungjune Yi	79	LG
#22	Gert Jan Van Lieshout	78	Samsung
#23	Jean-Philippe Vasseur	75	Cisco
#24	Byounghoon Kim	73	LG
#25	Hisao Sasai	73	Sun Patent Trust
#26	Joon Kui Ahn	72	LG
#27	Takahiro NISHI	72	Panasonic
#28	Tingfang Ji	72	Qualcomm
#29	Jonghyun Park	71	LG
#30	Soeng-Hun Kim	70	Samsung
#31	Kyeong-In Jeong	69	Samsung
#32	Santosh Paul Abraham	69	Qualcomm
#33	Yong Ho Seok	69	LG
#34	Sungjun Park	68	LG
#35	Muhammad Kazmi	67	Ericsson
#36	Seung Hee Han	67	LG
#37	Youji Shibahara	67	Sun Patent Trust
#38	Toshiyasu SUGIO	66	Sun Patent Trust
#39	Dong Youn Seo	64	LG
#40	Simone Merlin	64	Qualcomm
#41	Ying Chen	64	Qualcomm
#42	Hongyuan Zhang	63	Disney
#43	Hyunsoo Ko	62	LG
#44	Jae Hoon Chung	61	LG
#45	Yongbin Wei	61	Qualcomm
#46	Stephen E. Terry	60	Interdigital Technology
#47	Yongho Seok	60	LG
#48	Inkwon Seo	59	LG
#49	Jianle Chen	59	Huawei
#50	Seungmin LEE	59	LG
#51	Daichi Imamura	58	Panasonic
#52	Dae Won Lee	56	LG
#53	Joon-Young Cho	56	Samsung
#54	George Cherian	55	Qualcomm
#55	Kugo Morita	55	Kyocera
#56	Mo-Han Fong	55	Apple
#57	Durga Prasad Malladi	53	Qualcomm
#58	Gavin Bernard Horn	53	Qualcomm
#59	Seigo Nakao	53	Panasonic
#60	Paul Marinier	52	Interdigital Patent Holdings
#61	Hangyu Cho	51	LG
#62	Jong-Kae Fwu	51	Intel
#63	Robert W. Lord	51	The Invention Science Fund I
#64	Hemanth Sampath	50	Qualcomm
#65	Byeungwoo Jeon	49	Sk Telecom Co.
#66	Jin Soo Choi	49	KAIST
#67	Jinmin Kim	49	LG
#68	Mark A. Malamud	49	The Invention Science Fund I
#69	Royce A. Levien	49	The Invention Science Fund I
#70	Satoshi Nagata	49	Ntt Docomo
#71	Bonghoe Kim	48	LG
#72	Haekwang Kim	48	Sk Telecom Co.
#73	Jin Woong Kim	48	KAIST
#74	Joohee Moon	48	Sk Telecom Co.
#75	Naga Bhushan	48	Qualcomm
#76	Yunglyul Lee	48	Sk Telecom Co.
#77	Alexei Davydov	47	Intel
#78	Qinghua Li	47	Intel
#79	Toru Matsunobu	47	Sun Patent Trust
#80	Yeong Hyeon Kwon	47	LG
#81	Diana Pani	46	Interdigital Patent Holdings
#82	Seung June Yi	46	LG
#83	Shoichi Suzuki	46	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
#84	Tarik Tabet	46	Apple
#85	Aleksandar Damnjanovic	45	Qualcomm
#86	Christopher Newton	45	Level 3 Communications
#87	Jianglei Ma	45	Huawei
#88	Kyoko Tanikawa	45	Sun Patent Trust
#89	Jasinder P. Singh	44	Sprint Spectrum
#90	Jongseob Baek	44	LG
#91	Masato FUJISHIRO	44	Kyocera
#92	Suck Chel Yang	44	LG
#93	Junyi Li	43	Qualcomm
#94	Roderick A. Hyde	43	Intellectual Ventures
#95	Sung Jun Park	43	LG
#96	Young Dae Lee	43	LG
#97	Bengt Lindoff	42	Ericsson
#98	Jin Ho Lee	42	KAIST
#99	Kazuaki Takeda	42	Ntt Docomo
#100	Kitae Kim	42	LG

Top Companies

Rank ↑	Company ↕	Patents ↕
1	Samsung	1,939
2	LG	1,766
3	IBM	1,697
#4	Qualcomm	1,572
#5	Ericsson	1,408
#6	Intel	1,277
#7	Huawei	1,213
#8	Canon	985
#9	Sony	913
#10	AT&T	886
#11	Google	885
#12	Cisco	812
#13	Apple	754
#14	Microsoft	743
#15	Amazon	641
#16	Fujitsu Limited	637
#17	Nec	446
#18	Panasonic	392
#19	Verizon	392
#20	Nokia Technologies Oy	364
#21	Alcatel Lucent	362
#22	Zte	340
#23	Ricoh Company	339
#24	KAIST	320
#25	Disney	306
#26	Blackberry Limited	300
#27	Broadcom	297
#28	Meta	292
#29	Futurewei Technologies	240
#30	Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy	240
#31	Kyocera	235
#32	Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte.	222
#33	Juniper Networks	211
#34	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha	209
#35	Sun Patent Trust	203
#36	Tencent	202
#37	Oracle	200
#38	Texas Instruments	197
#39	Kyocera Document Solutions	192
#40	Interdigital Patent Holdings	179
#41	Dell Products	174
#42	Ntt Docomo	174
#43	Comcast	174
#44	Mediatek	169
#45	Sprint Spectrum	164
#46	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	163
#47	Thomson Licensing	160
#48	Sprint Communications	156
#49	Brother Kogyo	155
#50	Level 3 Communications	147
#51	Olympus	142
#52	Avaya	137
#53	Echostar Technologies L.L.C.	136
#54	Mitsubishi Electric	132
#55	Dolby Laboratories Licensing	124
#56	Aol	115
#57	Unknown	113
#58	Arris Enterprises	110
#59	T-Mobile Usa	109
#60	Emc Ip Holding Company	108
#61	Fujifilm Business Innovation	105
#62	Rovi Guides	103
#63	Hewlett Packard Enterprise	100
#64	Htc	96
#65	Ciena	95
#66	Fortinet	92
#67	Bose	91
#68	HP	89
#69	Nxp B.V.	89
#70	Seiko Epson	89
#71	China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology	88
#72	Konica Minolta	88
#73	Motorola	88
#74	General Motors	86
#75	Orange	85
#76	Aruba Networks	84
#77	Foxconn	84
#78	Koniniklijke Philips N.V.	84
#79	The Boeing	84
#80	Kt	80
#81	Bank of America	80
#82	Fujifilm	79
#83	Hitachi	78
#84	Citrix Systems	77
#85	Xi'An Zhongxing New Software Co.	76
#86	Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories	75
#87	Interdigital Technology	75
#88	Honeywell	75
#89	Xerox	74
#90	Adobe	73
#91	Empire Technology Development	73
#92	Hyundai Motor	72
#93	AMD	71
#94	Ca	71
#95	Xiaomi	71
#96	Sap Se	70
#97	Commscope Technologies	68
#98	Brocade Communications Systems	67
#99	Nicira	67
#100	Jvckenwood	66

Communications and networks Patent Leaders in 2017 2017

Patents per Year

Top Inventors

Top Companies