Communications and networks Patent Leaders 2020

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	Tao Luo	267	Qualcomm
2	Wanshi Chen	262	Qualcomm
3	Peter Gaal	255	Qualcomm
#4	Hanbyul Seo	218	LG
#5	Kijun Kim	211	LG
#6	Yunjung Yi	202	LG
#7	Esmael Hejazi Dinan	196	Ofinno
#8	Suckchel Yang	177	LG
#9	Joonkui Ahn	170	LG
#10	Jing Sun	148	Qualcomm
#11	Junyi Li	147	Qualcomm
#12	Hao Xu	146	Qualcomm
#13	Seungmin LEE	137	LG
#14	Tingfang Ji	124	Qualcomm
#15	Shan Liu	113	Tencent America
#16	Xiaoxia Zhang	108	Qualcomm
#17	Tamer Kadous	104	Xcom Labs
#18	Youngdae Lee	104	LG
#19	Takahiro NISHI	103	Panasonic
#20	Paul Shala Henry	101	AT&T
#21	Arunabha Ghosh	98	AT&T
#22	Jianglei Ma	97	Huawei
#23	Alireza Babaei	96	Ofinno
#24	Kyungmin Park	96	Ofinno
#25	Irwin Gerszberg	93	AT&T
#26	Marta Karczewicz	92	Qualcomm
#27	Seonwook KIM	92	LG
#28	Aleksandar Damnjanovic	91	Qualcomm
#29	Hangyu Cho	91	LG
#30	Xiang Li	91	Tencent America
#31	Jonghyun Park	89	LG
#32	Juan Montojo	87	Qualcomm
#33	Thomas M. Willis, III	87	AT&T
#34	Woosuk KO	87	LG
#35	Hongyuan Zhang	85	Disney
#36	Farhad Barzegar	84	AT&T
#37	Jiwon Kang	84	LG
#38	Muhammad Nazmul Islam	84	Qualcomm
#39	Hyunsoo Ko	82	LG
#40	Seungjune Yi	82	LG
#41	Daesung HWANG	81	LG
#42	Jing Jiang	80	Qualcomm
#43	Srinivas Yerramalli	80	Qualcomm
#44	Sungryong Hong	80	LG
#45	Joseph Binamira Soriaga	79	Qualcomm
#46	Sony Akkarakaran	78	—
#47	Hisao Sasai	77	Sun Patent Trust
#48	SaiRamesh Nammi	77	AT&T
#49	Sunyoung Lee	76	LG
#50	Shoichi Suzuki	74	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
#51	Toshiyasu SUGIO	74	Sun Patent Trust
#52	Youji Shibahara	74	Sun Patent Trust
#53	Donald J. Barnickel	71	AT&T
#54	Jaewook Lee	71	LG
#55	Robert Bennett	71	AT&T
#56	Hyukjin Chae	70	LG
#57	Joachim Loehr	70	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.
#58	Hyoungsuk Jeon	69	Ofinno
#59	Sundar Subramanian	69	Qualcomm
#60	Alberto Rico Alvarino	68	Qualcomm
#61	Detlev Marpe	68	GE
#62	Hua Zhou	68	Ofinno
#63	Satoshi Nagata	67	Ntt Docomo
#64	Tatsushi Aiba	67	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
#65	Byounghoon Kim	65	LG
#66	Gert Jan Van Lieshout	64	Samsung
#67	Akihiko Nishio	63	Panasonic
#68	Heechoon Lee	63	Qualcomm
#69	Jian Zhang	63	Huawei
#70	Eunsun Kim	62	LG
#71	Hidetoshi Suzuki	62	Panasonic
#72	Juergen Cezanne	61	Qualcomm
#73	Taesang Yoo	61	Qualcomm
#74	Xiaoyi Wang	61	AT&T
#75	Jin Soo Choi	60	KAIST
#76	Kiseon Ryu	60	LG
#77	Kyoungsoo Moon	60	LG
#78	Prateek Basu Mallick	60	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.
#79	Yongbin Wei	60	Qualcomm
#80	Hanjun Park	59	LG
#81	Naga Bhushan	59	Qualcomm
#82	Inkwon Seo	58	LG
#83	Jinsoo CHOI	58	LG
#84	Jin Woong Kim	56	KAIST
#85	Jin Ho Lee	56	KAIST
#86	Navid Abedini	56	Qualcomm
#87	Soenghun Kim	56	Samsung
#88	Thomas Wiegand	56	GE
#89	Jean-Philippe Vasseur	55	Cisco
#90	Jinsook Ryu	55	LG
#91	Renqiu Wang	55	Qualcomm
#92	Robert Baldemair	55	Ericsson
#93	Xiao Feng Wang	55	Qualcomm
#94	Yutaka Murakami	55	Panasonic
#95	Brian Alexander Martin	54	Sony
#96	Chih-Hsiang Wu	54	Htc
#97	Giovanni Vannucci	54	AT&T
#98	Kazuki Takeda	54	Ntt Docomo
#99	Liwen Chu	54	Disney
#100	Toru Matsunobu	54	Sun Patent Trust

Top Companies

Rank ↑	Company ↕	Patents ↕
1	Huawei	2,124
2	Samsung	1,825
3	LG	1,707
#4	Qualcomm	1,624
#5	IBM	1,574
#6	Ericsson	1,234
#7	Sony	1,185
#8	AT&T	993
#9	Apple	951
#10	Canon	898
#11	Cisco	880
#12	Amazon	768
#13	Intel	736
#14	Microsoft	734
#15	Google	538
#16	Nec	452
#17	Meta	447
#18	Panasonic	440
#19	Verizon	328
#20	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha	326
#21	Hewlett Packard Enterprise	311
#22	Fujitsu Limited	301
#23	KAIST	275
#24	T-Mobile Usa	266
#25	OPPO	261
#26	Nokia Technologies Oy	252
#27	Comcast	240
#28	Ricoh Company	233
#29	Alibaba	230
#30	Futurewei Technologies	225
#31	Broadcom	220
#32	Disney	213
#33	Tencent	210
#34	Juniper Networks	205
#35	Sun Patent Trust	205
#36	Zte	199
#37	Oracle	196
#38	Level 3 Communications	190
#39	Blackberry Limited	174
#40	Dell Products	173
#41	Texas Instruments	171
#42	Mediatek	168
#43	Emc Ip Holding Company	167
#44	Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy	165
#45	Ntt Docomo	164
#46	Nicira	153
#47	Kyocera Document Solutions	152
#48	Bank of America	147
#49	Seiko Epson	145
#50	Ofinno	137
#51	GE	136
#52	Salesforce	134
#53	Arris Enterprises	130
#54	Rovi Guides	128
#55	Interdigital Patent Holdings	126
#56	Capital One Services	124
#57	Dolby Laboratories Licensing	124
#58	Mitsubishi Electric	122
#59	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	120
#60	Brother Kogyo	118
#61	Citrix Systems	117
#62	The Nielsen Company (Us)	117
#63	HP	116
#64	NVIDIA	114
#65	Fujifilm Business Innovation	113
#66	Kyocera	112
#67	Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited	111
#68	Motorola Mobility	109
#69	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	108
#70	Nxp B.V.	107
#71	Bose	103
#72	Sprint Spectrum	103
#73	Unknown	103
#74	Sap Se	102
#75	China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology	100
#76	Sprint Communications	100
#77	Konica Minolta	98
#78	Kt	98
#79	Orange	97
#80	Oath	96
#81	Olympus	96
#82	Fg Innovation Company Limited	94
#83	Motorola	85
#84	Nxp Usa	84
#85	AMD	82
#86	Ciena	82
#87	Aac Technologies Pte.	81
#88	Hughes Network Systems	80
#89	Htc	79
#90	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.	79
#91	Sonos	78
#92	Commscope Technologies	77
#93	Gopro	76
#94	Snap	76
#95	The Boeing	75
#96	BOE	75
#97	Honeywell	75
#98	Convida Wireless	74
#99	Servicenow	74
#100	Tencent America	74

Communications and networks Patent Leaders in 2020 2020

Patents per Year

Top Inventors

Top Companies