Electronic circuits Patent Leaders 2021

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

Top Inventors

Rank ↑	Inventor ↕	Patents ↕	Primary Company ↕
1	Nadim Khlat	39	Qorvo Us
2	Rong Li	29	Huawei
3	Hong-sil Jeong	25	Samsung
#4	Makiko Yamamoto	25	Sony
#5	Yuji Shinohara	24	Sony
#6	Heung-Mook Kim	23	KAIST
#7	Kyung-joong Kim	23	Samsung
#8	Se-ho Myung	23	Samsung
#9	Sun-Hyoung KWON	23	KAIST
#10	Sung-Ik Park	23	KAIST
#11	Gongzheng Zhang	21	Huawei
#12	Huazi Zhang	20	Huawei
#13	Nam-Ho HUR	20	KAIST
#14	Jae-Young Lee	17	KAIST
#15	Fan Zhang	16	Sk Hynix
#16	Koji Nosaka	16	Murata Manufacturing Co.
#17	Viktor Plesski	16	Murata Manufacturing Co.
#18	Yunfei Qiao	16	Huawei
#19	Jun Wang	15	IBM
#20	Patrick Turner	15	Murata Manufacturing Co.
#21	Ventsislav Yantchev	14	Murata Manufacturing Co.
#22	Jeffrey B. Shealy	13	Akoustis
#23	Jing Jiang	13	Qualcomm
#24	Changlong XU	12	Qualcomm
#25	Hejia Luo	12	Huawei
#26	Satoshi Tanaka	12	Murata Manufacturing Co.
#27	Baker Scott	11	Qorvo Us
#28	Chia-Liang Lin	11	Realtek Semiconductor
#29	George Maxim	11	Qorvo Us
#30	Lingchen Huang	11	Huawei
#31	Naim Ben-Hamida	11	Ciena
#32	Robert Bogdan Staszewski	11	Texas Instruments
#33	Yufei Blankenship	11	Ericsson
#34	Dae Sung Kim	10	Sk Hynix
#35	Dirk Robert Walter Leipold	10	Qorvo Us
#36	Jian Wang	10	Huawei
#37	Meysam Asadi	10	Sk Hynix
#38	Robert B. Hammond	10	Murata Manufacturing Co.
#39	Shawn R. Gibb	10	Akoustis
#40	Xuanxuan Lu	10	Sk Hynix
#41	Belkacem Mouhouche	9	Samsung
#42	Bryant Garcia	9	Murata Manufacturing Co.
#43	Daniel Ansorregui Lobete	9	Samsung
#44	Dennis Hui	9	Ericsson
#45	Ying Chen	9	Huawei
#46	Ahmed Emira	8	Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co.
#47	Amol Ashok Ambardekar	8	Microsoft
#48	Aman Bhatia	8	Sk Hynix
#49	Boris Bobrov	8	Microsoft
#50	Bonghoe Kim	8	LG
#51	Chad B. McBride	8	Microsoft
#52	Chao WEI	8	Qualcomm
#53	Chenrong Xiong	8	Sk Hynix
#54	Chaolong Zhang	8	Huawei
#55	Gabi Sarkis	8	Qualcomm
#56	George Petre	8	Microsoft
#57	Hans-Joerg Timme	8	Infineon Technologies Ag
#58	Jun Xu	8	Zte
#59	Kent D. Cedola	8	Microsoft
#60	Larry Marvin Wall	8	Microsoft
#61	Martin Clara	8	Intel
#62	Ramakrishna Vetury	8	Akoustis
#63	Ruediger Bauder	8	Rf Micro Devices
#64	Ryoji Ikegaya	8	Sony
#65	Sadok Aouini	8	Ciena
#66	Shih-Hsiung Huang	8	Realtek Semiconductor
#67	Jeffrey Alan Fredenburg	7	Movellus Circuits
#68	Liang Ma	7	Huawei
#69	Philip John Lehtola	7	Skyworks Solutions
#70	Rohan W. HOULDEN	7	Akoustis
#71	Ryuta Nishizawa	7	Seiko Epson
#72	Sasikanth Manipatruni	7	Kepler Computing
#73	Shinya Aoki	7	Seiko Epson
#74	Shang-Chih Hsieh	7	TSMC
#75	Tero Tapio Ranta	7	Psemi
#76	Tomoyoshi Tai	7	Ngk Insulators
#77	Yuejun Wei	7	Huawei
#78	Amrita Mathuriya	6	Kepler Computing
#79	Armin Tajalli	6	Kandou Labs Sa
#80	Atsushi Matsuo	6	Seiko Epson
#81	Baleegh Abdo	6	IBM
#82	Chang Hyun Lim	6	Samsung
#83	Chi-Lin Liu	6	TSMC
#84	Daniel Gruber	6	Intel
#85	David Steven Ripley	6	Skyworks Solutions
#86	Eran Sharon	6	Sandisk Technologies
#87	Gaurav Thareja	6	Kepler Computing
#88	Hajime Shibata	6	—
#89	Haobo Wang	6	Sk Hynix
#90	Hongsil Jeong	6	Samsung
#91	Ilmu Byun	6	LG
#92	Joshua James Caron	6	Skyworks Solutions
#93	Jongwoong Shin	6	LG
#94	Joseph Binamira Soriaga	6	Qualcomm
#95	Jun Yang	6	Southeast University
#96	Kameran Azadet	6	Intel
#97	Kwangseok Noh	6	LG
#98	Liming Xiu	6	BOE
#99	Min Jang	6	Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
#100	Mitsuhiro Shimozawa	6	Mitsubishi Electric

Top Companies

Rank ↑	Company ↕	Patents ↕
1	Samsung	192
2	Murata Manufacturing Co.	180
3	Texas Instruments	146
#4	Huawei	98
#5	Intel	80
#6	Qualcomm	80
#7	Qorvo Us	75
#8	TSMC	68
#9	Sk Hynix	67
#10	Skyworks Solutions	67
#11	IBM	62
#12	Apple	52
#13	Seiko Epson	51
#14	Analog Devices International Unlimited	50
#15	Infineon Technologies Ag	50
#16	Realtek Semiconductor	50
#17	Sony	49
#18	AMD	43
#19	Micron	39
#20	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	37
#21	Nxp Usa	37
#22	Mitsubishi Electric	36
#23	Psemi	35
#24	KAIST	33
#25	Ericsson	33
#26	Nxp B.V.	29
#27	Resonant	28
#28	Cirrus Logic	26
#29	Stmicroelectronics Sa	26
#30	Analog Devices	23
#31	Mediatek	22
#32	Rohm Co.	22
#33	Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co.	22
#34	NVIDIA	22
#35	Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage	21
#36	onsemi	20
#37	Western Digital Technologies	19
#38	LG	19
#39	Microsoft	19
#40	Fuji Electric Co.	18
#41	Silicon Laboratories	18
#42	Taiyo Yuden Co.	18
#43	Panasonic	18
#44	Disney	16
#45	Ams Ag	15
#46	Denso	15
#47	Robert Bosch Gmbh	15
#48	Infineon Technologies Austria Ag	14
#49	Stmicroelectronics International N.V.	14
#50	Akoustis	13
#51	Ciena	13
#52	Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration	12
#53	Kioxia	12
#54	Rambus	12
#55	Richwave Technology	12
#56	BOE	12
#57	Global Unichip	11
#58	Kyocera	11
#59	Ngk Insulators	11
#60	Saturn Licensing	11
#61	Nokia Technologies Oy	10
#62	Renesas Electronics	10
#63	Silicon Motion	10
#64	Canon	10
#65	Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited	9
#66	CEA	9
#67	Dialog Semiconductor B.V.	9
#68	Kandou Labs Sa	9
#69	Novatek Microelectronics	9
#70	Rohde & Schwarz	9
#71	Seagate Technology	9
#72	Seoul National University R&Db Foundation	9
#73	Sumitomo Electric Industries	9
#74	University of California	9
#75	Honeywell	9
#76	Fujitsu Limited	8
#77	Lapis Semiconductor Co.	8
#78	Microchip Technology Incorporated	8
#79	Toshiba Memory	8
#80	United Microelectronics	8
#81	Google	8
#82	Allegro Microsystems	7
#83	Emc Ip Holding Company	7
#84	Innogrit Technologies Co.	7
#85	Korea University Research And Business Foundation	7
#86	Movellus Circuits	7
#87	Nec	7
#88	RTX (Raytheon)	7
#89	Cadence Design Systems	6
#90	Cree	6
#91	Kepler Computing	6
#92	Macom Technology Solutions Holdings	6
#93	Northrop Grumman	6
#94	Omron	6
#95	Phison Electronics	6
#96	Semtech	6
#97	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha	6
#98	Sitime	6
#99	Socionext	6
#100	Stmicroelectronics (Rousset) Sas	6

Electronic circuits Patent Leaders in 2021 2021

Patents per Year

Top Inventors

Top Companies