Communications and networks Patent Leaders 2019

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	238	LG
2	Wanshi Chen	223	Qualcomm
3	Peter Gaal	221	Qualcomm
#4	Tao Luo	211	Qualcomm
#5	Joonkui Ahn	173	LG
#6	Hao Xu	172	Qualcomm
#7	Yunjung Yi	168	LG
#8	Kijun Kim	154	LG
#9	Suckchel Yang	145	LG
#10	Tingfang Ji	130	Qualcomm
#11	Hangyu Cho	128	LG
#12	Esmael Hejazi Dinan	111	Ofinno
#13	Hongyuan Zhang	108	Disney
#14	Sunghoon Jung	108	LG
#15	Junyi Li	107	Qualcomm
#16	Marta Karczewicz	104	Qualcomm
#17	Seungmin LEE	104	LG
#18	Paul Shala Henry	99	AT&T
#19	Youngdae Lee	99	LG
#20	Irwin Gerszberg	98	AT&T
#21	Seungjune Yi	91	LG
#22	Sunyoung Lee	89	LG
#23	Aleksandar Damnjanovic	86	Qualcomm
#24	Farhad Barzegar	85	AT&T
#25	Jonghyun Park	85	LG
#26	Jianglei Ma	79	Huawei
#27	Juan Montojo	79	Qualcomm
#28	Thomas M. Willis, III	79	AT&T
#29	Jing Jiang	78	Qualcomm
#30	Xiaoxia Zhang	77	Qualcomm
#31	Takahiro NISHI	75	Panasonic
#32	Kiseon Ryu	74	LG
#33	Sungryong Hong	74	LG
#34	Joseph Binamira Soriaga	73	Qualcomm
#35	Donald J. Barnickel	72	AT&T
#36	Woosuk KO	72	LG
#37	Hyunsoo Ko	71	LG
#38	Jeongki Kim	69	LG
#39	Jinsoo CHOI	68	LG
#40	Jing Sun	68	Qualcomm
#41	Robert Bennett	68	AT&T
#42	Jiwon Kang	67	LG
#43	Hisao Sasai	65	Sun Patent Trust
#44	Muhammad Kazmi	64	Ericsson
#45	Shan Liu	64	Tencent America
#46	Hui-Ling Lou	63	Disney
#47	Jin Soo Choi	63	KAIST
#48	Yongbin Wei	63	Qualcomm
#49	Byounghoon Kim	62	LG
#50	Hyukjin Chae	62	LG
#51	Lei Wang	62	Huawei
#52	Daesung HWANG	61	LG
#53	Kwangseok Noh	61	LG
#54	Arunabha Ghosh	60	AT&T
#55	Hidetoshi Suzuki	60	Panasonic
#56	Liwen Chu	59	Disney
#57	SaiRamesh Nammi	59	AT&T
#58	Toshiyasu SUGIO	59	Sun Patent Trust
#59	Yutaka Murakami	59	Panasonic
#60	Durga Prasad Malladi	58	Qualcomm
#61	Gavin Bernard Horn	58	Qualcomm
#62	Genebeck Hahn	58	LG
#63	Gert Jan Van Lieshout	58	Samsung
#64	Jin Woong Kim	58	KAIST
#65	Jin Ho Lee	58	KAIST
#66	Masato FUJISHIRO	58	Kyocera
#67	Youji Shibahara	58	Sun Patent Trust
#68	Akihiko Nishio	57	Panasonic
#69	Eunjong Lee	57	LG
#70	Jaewook Lee	57	LG
#71	Naga Bhushan	57	Qualcomm
#72	Taesang Yoo	57	Qualcomm
#73	Robert Baldemair	56	Ericsson
#74	Bonghoe Kim	55	LG
#75	Kilbom Lee	55	LG
#76	Laeyoung Kim	55	LG
#77	Srinivas Yerramalli	55	Qualcomm
#78	Tamer Kadous	55	Xcom Labs
#79	Po-Kai Huang	54	Intel
#80	Shoichi Suzuki	54	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
#81	Yakun Sun	54	Disney
#82	Sundar Subramanian	53	Qualcomm
#83	Tatsushi Aiba	53	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
#84	Heejeong Cho	52	LG
#85	Hyangsun You	52	LG
#86	Stefan Parkvall	52	Ericsson
#87	Jian Zhang	51	Huawei
#88	Bengt Lindoff	50	Ericsson
#89	Hyunsook Kim	50	LG
#90	Jaehoon Chung	50	LG
#91	Seunghee Han	50	LG
#92	Seonwook KIM	50	LG
#93	Xiang Li	50	Tencent America
#94	Joachim Loehr	49	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.
#95	Kitae Kim	49	LG
#96	Martin Hessler	49	Ericsson
#97	Muhammad Nazmul Islam	49	Qualcomm
#98	Soeng-Hun Kim	49	Samsung
#99	Tomohiro Kimura	49	Panasonic
#100	Alberto Rico Alvarino	48	Qualcomm

Top Companies

Rank ↑	Company ↕	Patents ↕
1	Samsung	2,038
2	Huawei	1,864
3	LG	1,677
#4	IBM	1,570
#5	Qualcomm	1,515
#6	Ericsson	1,446
#7	Sony	1,167
#8	Intel	1,093
#9	Canon	1,016
#10	AT&T	964
#11	Cisco	875
#12	Amazon	847
#13	Microsoft	824
#14	Apple	766
#15	Google	666
#16	Nec	464
#17	Meta	445
#18	Panasonic	442
#19	KAIST	343
#20	Fujitsu Limited	339
#21	Hewlett Packard Enterprise	307
#22	Verizon	297
#23	Ricoh Company	293
#24	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha	284
#25	Disney	282
#26	Futurewei Technologies	280
#27	Broadcom	243
#28	Nokia Technologies Oy	239
#29	Juniper Networks	233
#30	Oracle	230
#31	Tencent	223
#32	Zte	220
#33	T-Mobile Usa	214
#34	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	208
#35	Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy	206
#36	Sun Patent Trust	196
#37	Blackberry Limited	188
#38	Comcast	180
#39	Mediatek	170
#40	OPPO	155
#41	Kyocera Document Solutions	153
#42	Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited	152
#43	Interdigital Patent Holdings	151
#44	Kyocera	150
#45	Ntt Docomo	149
#46	Brother Kogyo	146
#47	Dell Products	144
#48	Nicira	144
#49	Texas Instruments	144
#50	Emc Ip Holding Company	141
#51	Bank of America	141
#52	Fujifilm Business Innovation	139
#53	Seiko Epson	135
#54	Level 3 Communications	134
#55	Alcatel Lucent	133
#56	Dolby Laboratories Licensing	128
#57	Arris Enterprises	126
#58	Konica Minolta	126
#59	Olympus	125
#60	Alibaba	121
#61	Unknown	118
#62	Sprint Communications	112
#63	Capital One Services	109
#64	Mitsubishi Electric	109
#65	Rovi Guides	109
#66	GE	108
#67	HP	107
#68	Motorola Mobility	104
#69	Sprint Spectrum	104
#70	NVIDIA	100
#71	Bose	98
#72	Kt	97
#73	Motorola	94
#74	Ciena	92
#75	Citrix Systems	92
#76	Salesforce	92
#77	The Nielsen Company (Us)	89
#78	Dish Technologies L.L.C.	88
#79	Htc	88
#80	Honeywell	86
#81	Nxp B.V.	84
#82	The Boeing	82
#83	Xi'An Zhongxing New Software Co.	82
#84	Orange	80
#85	Aol	79
#86	Avaya	75
#87	Goertek	75
#88	Ofinno	74
#89	Sonos	74
#90	Adobe	73
#91	Hughes Network Systems	73
#92	RTX (Raytheon)	73
#93	AMD	72
#94	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	72
#95	Oath	70
#96	Sap Se	70
#97	BOE	70
#98	PayPal	70
#99	Commscope Technologies	69
#100	NTT	69

Communications and networks Patent Leaders in 2019 2019

Patents per Year

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Top Companies