Communications and networks Patent Leaders 2018

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	175	LG
2	Wanshi Chen	136	Qualcomm
3	Yunjung Yi	135	LG
#4	Peter Gaal	133	Qualcomm
#5	Joonkui Ahn	128	LG
#6	Woosuk KO	116	LG
#7	Suckchel Yang	112	LG
#8	Sunghoon Jung	108	LG
#9	Tao Luo	108	Qualcomm
#10	Sungryong Hong	107	LG
#11	Kijun Kim	105	LG
#12	Hao Xu	95	Qualcomm
#13	Youngdae Lee	94	LG
#14	Hongyuan Zhang	92	Disney
#15	Hangyu Cho	82	LG
#16	Jonghyun Park	81	LG
#17	Irwin Gerszberg	79	AT&T
#18	Jaehoon Chung	79	LG
#19	Takahiro NISHI	77	Panasonic
#20	Hisao Sasai	74	Sun Patent Trust
#21	Paul Shala Henry	74	AT&T
#22	Seungmin LEE	74	LG
#23	George Cherian	70	Qualcomm
#24	Marta Karczewicz	70	Qualcomm
#25	Youji Shibahara	70	Sun Patent Trust
#26	Farhad Barzegar	69	AT&T
#27	Tingfang Ji	68	Qualcomm
#28	Aleksandar Damnjanovic	67	Qualcomm
#29	Thomas M. Willis, III	67	AT&T
#30	Seungjune Yi	66	LG
#31	Toshiyasu SUGIO	66	Sun Patent Trust
#32	Yongbin Wei	66	Qualcomm
#33	Muhammad Kazmi	65	Ericsson
#34	Seunghee Han	65	LG
#35	Donald J. Barnickel	64	AT&T
#36	Hakseong Kim	64	LG
#37	Durga Prasad Malladi	62	Qualcomm
#38	Robert Bennett	61	AT&T
#39	Dongyoun Seo	60	LG
#40	Akihiko Nishio	59	Panasonic
#41	Gert Jan Van Lieshout	57	Samsung
#42	Junyi Li	57	Qualcomm
#43	Shoichi Suzuki	55	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
#44	Jong-Kae Fwu	53	Intel
#45	Santosh Paul Abraham	53	Qualcomm
#46	Byounghoon Kim	52	LG
#47	Naga Bhushan	52	Qualcomm
#48	Simone Merlin	52	Qualcomm
#49	Esmael Hejazi Dinan	51	Ofinno
#50	Aris Papasakellariou	50	Samsung
#51	Bonghoe Kim	50	LG
#52	Tatsushi Aiba	50	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
#53	Toru Matsunobu	50	Sun Patent Trust
#54	Hyunsoo Ko	49	LG
#55	Kyoko Tanikawa	49	Sun Patent Trust
#56	Lei Wang	49	Huawei
#57	Masato FUJISHIRO	49	Kyocera
#58	Soeng-Hun Kim	49	Samsung
#59	Jianglei Ma	48	Huawei
#60	Qinghua Li	48	Intel
#61	Kengo Terada	47	Sun Patent Trust
#62	Kyoungsoo Moon	47	LG
#63	Robert J. Stacey	47	Intel
#64	Ye-Kui Wang	47	Qualcomm
#65	Daichi Imamura	46	Panasonic
#66	Hui-Ling Lou	46	Disney
#67	Jasinder P. Singh	46	Sprint Spectrum
#68	Carlos Cordeiro	45	Intel
#69	Seigo Nakao	45	Panasonic
#70	Gregory Branchek Roth	44	Amazon
#71	Hyukjin Chae	44	LG
#72	Inkwon Seo	44	LG
#73	Jean-Philippe Vasseur	44	Cisco
#74	Joon Kui Ahn	44	LG
#75	Curtis Ling	43	Maxlinear
#76	Emily H. Qi	43	Intel
#77	Jinsoo CHOI	43	LG
#78	Kugo Morita	43	Kyocera
#79	Yakun Sun	43	Disney
#80	Eunjong Lee	42	LG
#81	Jae Hoon Chung	42	LG
#82	Jing Jiang	42	Qualcomm
#83	Jinmin Kim	42	LG
#84	Sreekar Marupaduga	42	Sprint Spectrum
#85	Venson Shaw	42	AT&T
#86	Ying Chen	42	Qualcomm
#87	Yutaka Murakami	42	Panasonic
#88	Heejeong Cho	41	LG
#89	Joo Young Kim	41	Kt
#90	Joseph Binamira Soriaga	41	Qualcomm
#91	Lisa Seacat DeLuca	41	Unstoppable Domains
#92	Mo-Han Fong	41	Apple
#93	Shigeru Fukushima	41	Jvckenwood
#94	Sunyoung Lee	41	LG
#95	Genebeck Hahn	40	LG
#96	Hyungtae Kim	40	LG
#97	Jiwon Kang	40	LG
#98	Masayuki Hoshino	40	Panasonic
#99	Paul Marinier	40	Interdigital Patent Holdings
#100	Tarik Tabet	40	Apple

Top Companies

Rank ↑	Company ↕	Patents ↕
1	Samsung	1,927
2	IBM	1,736
3	LG	1,575
#4	Huawei	1,385
#5	Qualcomm	1,350
#6	Ericsson	1,234
#7	Intel	1,228
#8	Canon	983
#9	Sony	914
#10	AT&T	861
#11	Microsoft	706
#12	Amazon	705
#13	Google	699
#14	Apple	681
#15	Cisco	678
#16	Fujitsu Limited	395
#17	Panasonic	360
#18	Nec	351
#19	Verizon	347
#20	KAIST	318
#21	Zte	309
#22	Ricoh Company	285
#23	Disney	278
#24	Meta	275
#25	Futurewei Technologies	254
#26	Blackberry Limited	239
#27	Nokia Technologies Oy	238
#28	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha	235
#29	Juniper Networks	212
#30	Mediatek	210
#31	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	203
#32	Dell Products	196
#33	Sun Patent Trust	196
#34	Kyocera	192
#35	Oracle	189
#36	Alcatel Lucent	182
#37	Sprint Communications	179
#38	Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy	178
#39	Tencent	173
#40	Broadcom	172
#41	Comcast	171
#42	Sprint Spectrum	167
#43	Kyocera Document Solutions	165
#44	Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte.	155
#45	Emc Ip Holding Company	147
#46	Hewlett Packard Enterprise	147
#47	Texas Instruments	146
#48	Ntt Docomo	144
#49	Interdigital Patent Holdings	142
#50	Bank of America	135
#51	Fujifilm Business Innovation	134
#52	Konica Minolta	131
#53	Mitsubishi Electric	130
#54	Dolby Laboratories Licensing	129
#55	Level 3 Communications	128
#56	Seiko Epson	127
#57	Brother Kogyo	125
#58	T-Mobile Usa	121
#59	Nicira	119
#60	Rovi Guides	118
#61	Fortinet	116
#62	Thomson Licensing	115
#63	Olympus	111
#64	Arris Enterprises	106
#65	Unknown	105
#66	Aol	99
#67	Bose	97
#68	Kt	96
#69	Koniniklijke Philips N.V.	95
#70	GE	95
#71	Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha	92
#72	Sonos	90
#73	Citrix Systems	87
#74	Avaya	84
#75	Ca	84
#76	Robert Bosch Gmbh	83
#77	Honeywell	83
#78	The Boeing	82
#79	Adobe	81
#80	Ciena	80
#81	NVIDIA	79
#82	Nxp B.V.	77
#83	Orange	76
#84	Jvckenwood	72
#85	Commscope Technologies	71
#86	Fujifilm	71
#87	Hfi Innovation	71
#88	Motorola Mobility	71
#89	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	70
#90	Maxlinear	70
#91	Saturn Licensing	70
#92	Motorola	69
#93	Nxp Usa	68
#94	Sap Se	68
#95	AMD	66
#96	HP	66
#97	Dish Technologies L.L.C.	63
#98	Xiaomi	63
#99	Htc	61
#100	The Nielsen Company (Us)	61

Communications and networks Patent Leaders in 2018 2018

Patents per Year

Top Inventors

Top Companies