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Communications and networks Patent Leaders in 2021 2021

Primary CPC class H04 · Section H

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: 2016201720182019202020212022202320242025

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 51,030 patents in 2019.peak 51,0301996: 6,747 patents19961997: 6,337 patents1998: 10,080 patents1999: 10,587 patents19992000: 10,973 patents2001: 11,337 patents2002: 11,916 patents20022003: 12,705 patents2004: 14,571 patents2005: 13,485 patents20052006: 20,135 patents2007: 17,756 patents2008: 19,490 patents20082009: 21,653 patents2010: 28,073 patents2011: 30,601 patents20112012: 38,426 patents2013: 41,459 patents2014: 46,526 patents20142015: 45,241 patents2016: 46,242 patents2017: 48,451 patents20172018: 46,477 patents2019: 51,030 patents2020: 49,952 patents20202021: 44,271 patents2022: 43,438 patents2023: 42,594 patents20232024: 44,056 patents2025: 44,086 patents2025

Top Inventors

Rank ↑ Inventor ↕ Patents ↕ Primary Company ↕
1 Tao Luo 315 Qualcomm
2 Wanshi Chen 253 Qualcomm
3 Peter Gaal 228 Qualcomm
#4 Junyi Li 212 Qualcomm
#5 Kijun Kim 181 LG
#6 Shan Liu 180 Tencent America
#7 Yunjung Yi 166 LG
#8 Jing Sun 163 Qualcomm
#9 Hanbyul Seo 162 LG
#10 Hai Tang 156 OPPO
#11 Esmael Hejazi Dinan 151 Ofinno
#12 Xiaoxia Zhang 148 Qualcomm
#13 Satoshi Nagata 129 Ntt Docomo
#14 Seungmin LEE 120 LG
#15 Marta Karczewicz 119 Qualcomm
#16 Hao Xu 115 Qualcomm
#17 Xiang Li 114 Tencent America
#18 Muhammad Nazmul Islam 112 Qualcomm
#19 Suckchel Yang 111 LG
#20 Joonkui Ahn 107 LG
#21 Jiwon Kang 104 LG
#22 Takahiro NISHI 103 Panasonic
#23 Youngdae Lee 103 LG
#24 Alberto Rico Alvarino 101 Qualcomm
#25 Alireza Babaei 99 Ofinno
#26 Kazuki Takeda 98 Ntt Docomo
#27 Gang Xiong 97 Apple
#28 Joseph Binamira Soriaga 91 Qualcomm
#29 Makesh Pravin John Wilson 90 —
#30 Tingfang Ji 90 Qualcomm
#31 Sony Akkarakaran 88 —
#32 Hyukjin Chae 84 LG
#33 Kyungmin Park 84 Ofinno
#34 Tadamasa TOMA 83 Panasonic
#35 Heechoon Lee 81 Qualcomm
#36 Navid Abedini 81 Qualcomm
#37 Tamer Kadous 80 Xcom Labs
#38 Daesung HWANG 79 LG
#39 Xiao Feng Wang 79 Qualcomm
#40 Jonghyun Park 78 LG
#41 Seonwook KIM 77 LG
#42 Jing Jiang 75 Qualcomm
#43 Srinivas Yerramalli 75 Qualcomm
#44 Sudhir Kumar Baghel 75 Qualcomm
#45 Xiaozhong XU 75 Tencent America
#46 Kai Zhang 73 Bytedance
#47 Ning Yang 72 OPPO
#48 Jianglei Ma 71 Huawei
#49 Kapil Gulati 71 Qualcomm
#50 Robert Baldemair 71 Ericsson
#51 Li Zhang 70 Bytedance
#52 Seyedkianoush Hosseini 70 Qualcomm
#53 Woosuk KO 70 LG
#54 Soenghun Kim 69 Samsung
#55 Sunyoung Lee 69 LG
#56 Xiaobo ZHANG 69 Shanghai Langbo Communication Technology Company Limited
#57 Alexandros MANOLAKOS 68 Qualcomm
#58 Bilal Sadiq 68 Qualcomm
#59 Arunabha Ghosh 66 AT&T
#60 Yi Huang 66 Qualcomm
#61 Hongyuan Zhang 64 Disney
#62 Jaewook Lee 64 LG
#63 Juergen Cezanne 64 Qualcomm
#64 Sukhyon Yoon 63 LG
#65 Xin Zhao 63 Tencent America
#66 Hyoungsuk Jeon 62 Ofinno
#67 Yan Zhou 62 Qualcomm
#68 Joachim Loehr 61 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.
#69 Seungjune Yi 61 LG
#70 Sundar Subramanian 61 Qualcomm
#71 Alexei Davydov 60 Intel
#72 Anil AGIWAL 60 Samsung
#73 Hidetoshi Suzuki 60 Panasonic
#74 Hong He 60 Apple
#75 Hua Zhou 60 Ofinno
#76 Hyunsoo Ko 60 LG
#77 Sreekar Marupaduga 60 Sprint Spectrum
#78 Sungryong Hong 59 LG
#79 Yushu Zhang 58 Apple
#80 Aleksandar Damnjanovic 57 Qualcomm
#81 Brian Alexander Martin 56 Sony
#82 Gavin Bernard Horn 56 Qualcomm
#83 Hongbin Liu 56 Bytedance
#84 Wei-Jung Chien 56 Qualcomm
#85 Eunsun Kim 55 LG
#86 Wooseok Nam 55 Qualcomm
#87 Yanan Lin 55 OPPO
#88 Prateek Basu Mallick 54 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.
#89 Yue Wang 54 Bytedance
#90 Hyunho Lee 53 LG
#91 SaiRamesh Nammi 53 AT&T
#92 Debdeep Chatterjee 52 Apple
#93 Hyungtae Kim 52 LG
#94 Juan Montojo 52 Qualcomm
#95 Peter Pui Lok Ang 52 Qualcomm
#96 Renqiu Wang 52 Qualcomm
#97 Stefan Parkvall 52 Ericsson
#98 Martin Warwick Beale 50 Sony
#99 Hangyu Cho 49 LG
#100 Kiyofumi Abe 49 Panasonic

Top Companies

Rank ↑ Company ↕ Patents ↕
1 Huawei 2,046
2 Samsung 1,876
3 Qualcomm 1,645
#4 LG 1,393
#5 IBM 1,245
#6 Ericsson 1,210
#7 Sony 986
#8 Apple 939
#9 Canon 858
#10 Cisco 788
#11 AT&T 732
#12 Amazon 648
#13 Intel 619
#14 Microsoft 506
#15 OPPO 486
#16 Verizon 415
#17 Panasonic 409
#18 Google 384
#19 Nec 362
#20 Broadcom 298
#21 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 285
#22 Nokia Technologies Oy 276
#23 Meta 266
#24 T-Mobile Usa 259
#25 KAIST 238
#26 Comcast 224
#27 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 211
#28 Juniper Networks 211
#29 Ntt Docomo 206
#30 Mediatek 195
#31 Disney 195
#32 Zte 192
#33 Advanced New Technologies Co. 187
#34 Bank of America 186
#35 Fujitsu Limited 183
#36 Fg Innovation Company Limited 179
#37 Texas Instruments 169
#38 Rovi Guides 165
#39 Emc Ip Holding Company 164
#40 Tencent America 164
#41 Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy 162
#42 Dell Products 156
#43 Fujifilm Business Innovation 155
#44 Xiaomi 149
#45 Oracle 144
#46 Tencent 142
#47 Arris Enterprises 136
#48 Ricoh Company 135
#49 Citrix Systems 133
#50 Sun Patent Trust 126
#51 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 123
#52 Capital One Services 121
#53 Kyocera Document Solutions 119
#54 Salesforce 119
#55 Snap 118
#56 Blackberry Limited 117
#57 Charter Communications Operating 114
#58 Mitsubishi Electric 112
#59 Nicira 107
#60 Level 3 Communications 106
#61 NVIDIA 106
#62 Cable Television Laboratories 104
#63 The Nielsen Company (Us) 103
#64 Seiko Epson 99
#65 Unknown 99
#66 Interdigital Patent Holdings 91
#67 Motorola Mobility 91
#68 Dolby Laboratories Licensing 89
#69 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 89
#70 Orange 89
#71 Sprint Communications 89
#72 Aac Technologies Pte. 87
#73 Futurewei Technologies 86
#74 NTT 86
#75 Realtek Semiconductor 85
#76 China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology 82
#77 Kyocera 81
#78 Alibaba 80
#79 Asustek Computer 80
#80 Gopro 80
#81 Roku 79
#82 Convida Wireless 78
#83 HP 78
#84 Toyota 78
#85 AMD 76
#86 Arista Networks 76
#87 Sz Dji Technology Co. 75
#88 USAA 75
#89 Brother Kogyo 73
#90 Fraunhofer 71
#91 Sprint Spectrum 71
#92 Servicenow 70
#93 Sonos 70
#94 Saturn Licensing 68
#95 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 68
#96 Fujifilm 67
#97 Ciena 66
#98 Ofinno 66
#99 Shanghai Langbo Communication Technology Company Limited 66
#100 PayPal 66