Communications and networks Patent Leaders 2022

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	503	Qualcomm
2	Xiaoxia Zhang	266	Qualcomm
3	Wanshi Chen	255	Qualcomm
#4	Junyi Li	250	Qualcomm
#5	Shan Liu	249	Tencent America
#6	Esmael Hejazi Dinan	244	Ofinno
#7	Jing Sun	240	Qualcomm
#8	Peter Gaal	211	Qualcomm
#9	Hai Tang	159	OPPO
#10	Yunjung Yi	159	LG
#11	Satoshi Nagata	151	Ntt Docomo
#12	Kyungmin Park	147	Ofinno
#13	Alireza Babaei	144	Ofinno
#14	Sony Akkarakaran	144	—
#15	Kazuki Takeda	141	Ntt Docomo
#16	Xiang Li	141	Tencent America
#17	Li Zhang	137	Bytedance
#18	Hua Zhou	136	Ofinno
#19	Yan Zhou	131	Qualcomm
#20	Kai Zhang	129	Bytedance
#21	Marta Karczewicz	124	Qualcomm
#22	Hyoungsuk Jeon	121	Ofinno
#23	Hanbyul Seo	114	LG
#24	Alexandros MANOLAKOS	113	Qualcomm
#25	Hongbin Liu	113	Bytedance
#26	Seungmin LEE	107	LG
#27	Sreekar Marupaduga	107	Sprint Spectrum
#28	Tingfang Ji	103	Qualcomm
#29	Kapil Gulati	101	Qualcomm
#30	Takahiro NISHI	101	Panasonic
#31	Joseph Binamira Soriaga	100	Qualcomm
#32	Suckchel Yang	100	LG
#33	Kijun Kim	99	LG
#34	Navid Abedini	97	Qualcomm
#35	Xiaobo ZHANG	97	Shanghai Langbo Communication Technology Company Limited
#36	Seyedkianoush Hosseini	95	Qualcomm
#37	Joonkui Ahn	90	LG
#38	Yue Wang	90	Bytedance
#39	Seunghwan KIM	89	LG
#40	Alberto Rico Alvarino	88	Qualcomm
#41	Hidetoshi Suzuki	87	Panasonic
#42	Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN	87	Qualcomm
#43	Ali Cagatay Cirik	86	Ofinno
#44	Soenghun Kim	86	Samsung
#45	Seonwook KIM	83	LG
#46	Wooseok Nam	83	Qualcomm
#47	Yi Huang	81	Qualcomm
#48	Ning Yang	80	OPPO
#49	Muhammad Nazmul Islam	79	Qualcomm
#50	Sudhir Kumar Baghel	79	Qualcomm
#51	Xiaozhong XU	79	Tencent America
#52	Xin Zhao	79	Tencent America
#53	Jiwon Kang	78	LG
#54	Gavin Bernard Horn	77	Qualcomm
#55	Jinsam Kwak	76	Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology
#56	Youngdae Lee	76	LG
#57	Tadamasa TOMA	75	Panasonic
#58	Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan	73	—
#59	Makesh Pravin John Wilson	72	—
#60	Wei Yang	72	Qualcomm
#61	Bae Keun LEE	71	Kt
#62	Jianle Chen	71	Huawei
#63	Jizheng Xu	71	Bytedance
#64	Hao Xu	70	Qualcomm
#65	Daesung HWANG	69	LG
#66	Jeongho YEO	68	Samsung
#67	Zhaohua Lu	68	Zte
#68	Jaehyun LIM	67	LG
#69	Robert Baldemair	67	Ericsson
#70	Hyukjin Chae	66	LG
#71	Joachim Loehr	66	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.
#72	Jinyoung OH	65	Samsung
#73	Juhyung SON	64	Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology
#74	Anil AGIWAL	63	Samsung
#75	Jung Ho Ryu	63	Qualcomm
#76	Sukhyon Yoon	63	LG
#77	Xiao Feng Wang	63	Qualcomm
#78	Hui Yong KIM	62	KAIST
#79	Hung Dinh LY	62	Qualcomm
#80	Jin Ho Lee	62	KAIST
#81	Prateek Basu Mallick	62	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.
#82	Sung Chang LIM	62	KAIST
#83	Karl Georg Hampel	61	Qualcomm
#84	Peter Pui Lok Ang	61	Qualcomm
#85	Srinivas Yerramalli	61	Qualcomm
#86	Dawei Zhang	59	Apple
#87	Jing Jiang	59	Qualcomm
#88	Juan Montojo	59	Qualcomm
#89	Tianyang Bai	58	Qualcomm
#90	Changhwan PARK	57	LG
#91	Jerome Henry	57	Cisco
#92	Naga Bhushan	57	Qualcomm
#93	Vadim Seregin	57	Qualcomm
#94	Aleksandar Damnjanovic	56	Qualcomm
#95	Arunabha Ghosh	56	AT&T
#96	Heechoon Lee	56	Qualcomm
#97	Shin Horng Wong	56	Sony
#98	Wei Hong	56	Xiaomi
#99	Hiroki Harada	55	Ntt Docomo
#100	Martin Warwick Beale	55	Sony

Top Companies

Rank ↑	Company ↕	Patents ↕
1	Huawei	2,091
2	Qualcomm	2,064
3	Samsung	1,857
#4	Ericsson	1,207
#5	LG	1,126
#6	Sony	968
#7	Canon	774
#8	Apple	754
#9	Cisco	754
#10	IBM	613
#11	AT&T	602
#12	OPPO	554
#13	Amazon	542
#14	Intel	508
#15	Google	403
#16	Panasonic	392
#17	Verizon	369
#18	Microsoft	366
#19	Nec	356
#20	Nokia Technologies Oy	321
#21	T-Mobile Usa	302
#22	Comcast	276
#23	Zte	273
#24	Tencent America	272
#25	Broadcom	263
#26	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha	256
#27	Xiaomi	252
#28	Ntt Docomo	246
#29	Juniper Networks	229
#30	NTT	227
#31	Hewlett Packard Enterprise	225
#32	KAIST	222
#33	Dell Products	217
#34	Fg Innovation Company Limited	211
#35	Vivo Mobile Communication Co.	204
#36	Meta	200
#37	Disney	181
#38	Arris Enterprises	180
#39	Bank of America	176
#40	Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy	166
#41	Fujifilm Business Innovation	164
#42	Citrix Systems	161
#43	Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co.	150
#44	Rovi Guides	147
#45	Charter Communications Operating	144
#46	Oracle	144
#47	Salesforce	141
#48	Fujitsu Limited	139
#49	Ricoh Company	135
#50	Texas Instruments	135
#51	Emc Ip Holding Company	133
#52	Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.	132
#53	Ofinno	130
#54	Mediatek	127
#55	Bytedance	122
#56	Capital One Services	122
#57	Snap	122
#58	Seiko Epson	118
#59	The Nielsen Company (Us)	116
#60	Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co.	113
#61	Mitsubishi Electric	111
#62	Cable Television Laboratories	106
#63	Sun Patent Trust	105
#64	Motorola Mobility	103
#65	Murata Manufacturing Co.	102
#66	Arista Networks	101
#67	Sprint Communications	100
#68	Kyocera Document Solutions	99
#69	Tencent	98
#70	Orange	97
#71	Interdigital Patent Holdings	96
#72	Dolby Laboratories Licensing	95
#73	Fraunhofer	94
#74	AMD	93
#75	HP	93
#76	Roku	92
#77	NVIDIA	91
#78	Shanghai Langbo Communication Technology Company Limited	90
#79	Brother Kogyo	89
#80	Level 3 Communications	88
#81	Realtek Semiconductor	88
#82	Unknown	88
#83	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.	88
#84	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	86
#85	Kt	83
#86	Ciena	81
#87	Kyocera	80
#88	Toyota	80
#89	Commscope Technologies	78
#90	Mediatek Singapore Pte.	77
#91	Sap Se	77
#92	Servicenow	76
#93	Xi'An Zhongxing New Software Co.	76
#94	Sk Telecom Co.	75
#95	USAA	75
#96	PayPal	75
#97	Alibaba	74
#98	Advanced New Technologies Co.	72
#99	Blackberry Limited	72
#100	Hyundai Motor	72

Communications and networks Patent Leaders in 2022 2022

Patents per Year

Top Inventors

Top Companies