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Communications and networks Patent Leaders in 2023 2023

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.

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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 1,024 Qualcomm
2 Junyi Li 557 Qualcomm
3 Xiaoxia Zhang 539 Qualcomm
#4 Jing Sun 437 Qualcomm
#5 Peter Gaal 344 Qualcomm
#6 Esmael Hejazi Dinan 305 Ofinno
#7 Wanshi Chen 302 Qualcomm
#8 Yan Zhou 280 Qualcomm
#9 Sony Akkarakaran 265 —
#10 Shan Liu 252 Tencent America
#11 Juan Montojo 216 Qualcomm
#12 Li Zhang 214 Bytedance
#13 Seyedkianoush Hosseini 208 Qualcomm
#14 Kai Zhang 205 Bytedance
#15 Kapil Gulati 201 Qualcomm
#16 Navid Abedini 199 Qualcomm
#17 Wooseok Nam 179 Qualcomm
#18 Hongbin Liu 175 Bytedance
#19 Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN 165 Qualcomm
#20 Kyungmin Park 163 Ofinno
#21 Kazuki Takeda 159 Ntt Docomo
#22 Alberto Rico Alvarino 157 Qualcomm
#23 Hua Zhou 154 Ofinno
#24 Yue Wang 149 Bytedance
#25 Wei Yang 146 Qualcomm
#26 Hyoungsuk Jeon 145 Ofinno
#27 Alireza Babaei 138 Ofinno
#28 Huilin XU 136 Qualcomm
#29 Jung Ho Ryu 136 Qualcomm
#30 Seunghwan KIM 134 LG
#31 Yunjung Yi 133 LG
#32 Yi Huang 130 Qualcomm
#33 Suckchel Yang 129 LG
#34 Seungmin LEE 125 LG
#35 Takahiro NISHI 125 Panasonic
#36 Jelena Damnjanovic 124 Qualcomm
#37 Iyab Issam Sakhnini 123 Qualcomm
#38 Seonwook KIM 122 LG
#39 Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli 120 Qualcomm
#40 Tingfang Ji 120 Qualcomm
#41 Xiang Li 118 Tencent America
#42 Hanbyul Seo 117 LG
#43 Soenghun Kim 117 Samsung
#44 Alexandros MANOLAKOS 113 Qualcomm
#45 Qian ZHANG 111 Qualcomm
#46 Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni 110 Qualcomm
#47 Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan 109 —
#48 Hai Tang 109 OPPO
#49 Ali Cagatay Cirik 106 Ofinno
#50 Satoshi Nagata 105 Ntt Docomo
#51 Ozcan Ozturk 103 Qualcomm
#52 Jizheng Xu 102 Bytedance
#53 Hidetoshi Suzuki 101 Panasonic
#54 Peter Pui Lok Ang 101 Qualcomm
#55 Shay Landis 101 Qualcomm
#56 Tadamasa TOMA 100 Panasonic
#57 Tianyang Bai 98 Qualcomm
#58 Sudhir Kumar Baghel 97 Qualcomm
#59 Hung Dinh LY 96 Qualcomm
#60 Gabi Sarkis 95 Qualcomm
#61 Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian 95 Qualcomm
#62 Hwan-Joon Kwon 94 Qualcomm
#63 Xin Zhao 94 Tencent America
#64 Jaehyun LIM 93 LG
#65 Dawei Zhang 91 Apple
#66 Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR 91 Qualcomm
#67 Jianghong Luo 90 Qualcomm
#68 Yisheng Xue 90 Qualcomm
#69 Srinivas Yerramalli 89 Qualcomm
#70 Joonkui Ahn 88 LG
#71 Hong Cheng 87 Qualcomm
#72 Jinsam Kwak 87 Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology
#73 Le Liu 86 Qualcomm
#74 Vasanthan Raghavan 86 Qualcomm
#75 Linhai HE 84 Qualcomm
#76 Xiaobo ZHANG 83 Shanghai Langbo Communication Technology Company Limited
#77 Sreekar Marupaduga 82 Sprint Spectrum
#78 Jiwon Kang 81 LG
#79 Joachim Loehr 80 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.
#80 Kiyofumi Abe 80 Panasonic
#81 Anil AGIWAL 79 Samsung
#82 Kiran Venugopal 79 Qualcomm
#83 Prateek Basu Mallick 79 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte.
#84 Marta Karczewicz 78 Qualcomm
#85 Karl Georg Hampel 77 Qualcomm
#86 Umesh Phuyal 76 Qualcomm
#87 Hui Yong KIM 75 KAIST
#88 Shuanshuan Wu 75 Qualcomm
#89 Xiao Feng Wang 75 Qualcomm
#90 Ye-Kui Wang 75 Qualcomm
#91 Gavin Bernard Horn 73 Qualcomm
#92 Jin Ho Lee 73 KAIST
#93 Piyush Gupta 73 Qualcomm
#94 Sung Chang LIM 73 KAIST
#95 Aleksandar Damnjanovic 72 Qualcomm
#96 Hongyuan Zhang 72 Disney
#97 Jianle Chen 72 Huawei
#98 Xiaozhong XU 72 Tencent America
#99 Assaf Touboul 70 Qualcomm
#100 Juhyung SON 69 Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology

Top Companies

Rank ↑ Company ↕ Patents ↕
1 Qualcomm 3,201
2 Samsung 1,743
3 Huawei 1,473
#4 LG 1,074
#5 Ericsson 1,013
#6 Apple 861
#7 Canon 797
#8 Cisco 762
#9 Sony 728
#10 Intel 500
#11 IBM 479
#12 Amazon 463
#13 Panasonic 428
#14 Google 406
#15 OPPO 404
#16 AT&T 397
#17 Microsoft 384
#18 Verizon 384
#19 Comcast 372
#20 Broadcom 335
#21 Nokia Technologies Oy 333
#22 T-Mobile Usa 324
#23 Nec 297
#24 Tencent America 293
#25 Zte 293
#26 NTT 244
#27 Dell Products 238
#28 Xiaomi 237
#29 KAIST 234
#30 Juniper Networks 220
#31 Arris Enterprises 219
#32 Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co. 219
#33 Bytedance 219
#34 Rovi Guides 211
#35 Vivo Mobile Communication Co. 206
#36 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 205
#37 Disney 202
#38 Capital One Services 201
#39 Interdigital Patent Holdings 201
#40 Bank of America 197
#41 Meta 191
#42 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 188
#43 Charter Communications Operating 185
#44 T-Mobile Innovations 184
#45 Snap 178
#46 Ntt Docomo 172
#47 Oracle 167
#48 Texas Instruments 165
#49 Ofinno 159
#50 The Nielsen Company (Us) 159
#51 Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy 151
#52 Salesforce 141
#53 Cable Television Laboratories 134
#54 Fujitsu Limited 132
#55 Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. 129
#56 Sun Patent Trust 125
#57 Uab 360 It 125
#58 Fg Innovation Company Limited 124
#59 Level 3 Communications 120
#60 NVIDIA 120
#61 Fujifilm Business Innovation 116
#62 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 113
#63 Mediatek 112
#64 Dish Network L.L.C. 106
#65 Seiko Epson 106
#66 Motorola Mobility 101
#67 Ricoh Company 99
#68 Roku 99
#69 Realtek Semiconductor 98
#70 USAA 94
#71 Zoom Video Communications 94
#72 Arista Networks 92
#73 Brother Kogyo 91
#74 Fraunhofer 90
#75 Gopro 87
#76 Sonos 87
#77 Sk Telecom Co. 86
#78 Unknown 86
#79 Mitsubishi Electric 85
#80 Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology 83
#81 Dolby Laboratories Licensing 81
#82 Asustek Computer 80
#83 Ciena 80
#84 PayPal 79
#85 Robert Bosch Gmbh 78
#86 Shenzhen Shokz Co. 77
#87 Blackberry Limited 75
#88 Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co. 75
#89 Toyota 75
#90 Visa 74
#91 Palo Alto Networks 73
#92 Commscope Technologies 72
#93 Hyundai Motor 70
#94 Orange 70
#95 Shanghai Langbo Communication Technology Company Limited 70
#96 Mediatek Singapore Pte. 69
#97 Emc Ip Holding Company 68
#98 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 68
#99 Nicira 68
#100 Hughes Network Systems 65