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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Electronic circuits Patent Leaders in 2025 2025

Primary CPC class H03 · 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 5,072 patents in 2013.peak 5,0721996: 2,043 patents19961997: 1,939 patents1998: 2,651 patents1999: 2,774 patents19992000: 3,076 patents2001: 3,274 patents2002: 3,435 patents20022003: 3,512 patents2004: 3,598 patents2005: 3,258 patents20052006: 4,300 patents2007: 4,126 patents2008: 4,041 patents20082009: 4,269 patents2010: 4,895 patents2011: 4,649 patents20112012: 4,590 patents2013: 5,072 patents2014: 5,069 patents20142015: 4,555 patents2016: 4,553 patents2017: 4,205 patents20172018: 3,493 patents2019: 4,584 patents2020: 4,558 patents20202021: 3,633 patents2022: 3,328 patents2023: 3,076 patents20232024: 3,117 patents2025: 3,326 patents2025

Top Inventors

Rank ↑ Inventor ↕ Patents ↕ Primary Company ↕
1 Nadim Khlat 40 Qorvo Us
2 Rei Goto 34 Skyworks Solutions
3 Ventsislav Yantchev 26 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#4 Bryant Garcia 25 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#5 Yiliu Wang 23 Skyworks Solutions
#6 Charles Yeomans 19 Atombeam Technologies
#7 Patrick Turner 17 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#8 Joshua Cooper 16 Atombeam Technologies
#9 Katsuya DAIMON 15 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#10 Kwang Jae Shin 15 Skyworks Global Pte.
#11 Hironori Fukuhara 14 Skyworks Solutions
#12 Tomoya Komatsu 14 Skyworks Solutions
#13 Jiansong Liu 13 Skyworks Global Pte.
#14 Sean McHugh 13 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#15 Greg Dyer 12 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#16 Robert B. Hammond 12 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#17 Sho NAGATOMO 12 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#18 Viktor Plesski 12 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#19 Baker Scott 11 Qorvo Us
#20 Emre Ayranci 11 Psemi
#21 Shih-Hsiung Huang 11 Realtek Semiconductor
#22 Alexandre Augusto Shirakawa 10 Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte.
#23 Benjamin Paul Abbott 10 Triquint Semiconductor
#24 George Maxim 10 Qorvo Us
#25 Jun Cao 10 Broadcom
#26 Keigo Maki 10 Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co.
#27 Martin Clara 10 Intel
#28 Sasikanth Manipatruni 10 Kepler Computing
#29 Tetsuya Kimura 10 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#30 Tero Tapio Ranta 10 Psemi
#31 Visvesvaraya Pentakota 10 Texas Instruments
#32 Aliasghar Riahi 9 Atombeam Technologies
#33 Amrita Mathuriya 9 Kepler Computing
#34 Gongbin Tang 9 Shenzhen Newsonic Technologies Co.
#35 Keiichi Maki 9 Skyworks Solutions
#36 Miles Sanner 9 Psemi
#37 Neal Fenzi 9 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#38 Rajeev Kumar Dokania 9 Kepler Computing
#39 Syunsuke KIDO 9 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#40 Brian Galvin 8 Atombeam Technologies
#41 Chia-Liang Lin 8 Realtek Semiconductor
#42 Dariusz Burak 8 Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte.
#43 Ikenna Odinaka 8 Kepler Computing
#44 Jack Lenell 8 Qxonix
#45 Jerry Chang Jui Kao 8 TSMC
#46 Jie Zou 8 Seagate Technology
#47 Julius Koskela 8 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#48 Kevin J. Grannen 8 Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte.
#49 Philip John Lehtola 8 Skyworks Solutions
#50 Rafael Rios 8 Kepler Computing
#51 Andrew Guyette 7 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#52 Andrew Kay 7 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#53 Chih-Hsien Chang 7 TSMC
#54 Gong Bin Tang 7 Skyworks Solutions
#55 Grant Fickes 7 Atombeam Technologies
#56 Hiroyuki Nakamura 7 Sumitomo Electric Industries
#57 Kenichi Shimamoto 7 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#58 Zion S. Kwok 7 Intel
#59 Ahmed Safwat Mohamed Aboelenein Elmallah 6 Mediatek
#60 Albert Cardona 6 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#61 Amit Berman 6 Samsung
#62 Ankireddy Nalamalpu 6 Intel
#63 Brent Carlton 6 Intel
#64 Douglas Jachowski 6 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#65 Henrik Sjöland 6 Ericsson
#66 Hideki IWAMOTO 6 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#67 Hui-Zhong Zhuang 6 TSMC
#68 Jeffrey B. Shealy 6 Akoustis
#69 John Koulakis 6 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#70 Kameran Azadet 6 Intel
#71 Marcus Granger-Jones 6 Qorvo Us
#72 Masatoshi Hase 6 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#73 Mark Peting 6 Digeo
#74 Mohammed Mohsen Abdulsalam Abdullatif 6 Mediatek
#75 Ryuta Nishizawa 6 Seiko Epson
#76 Shang-Chih Hsieh 6 TSMC
#77 Shintaro Shinjo 6 Mitsubishi Electric
#78 Takashi Yamane 6 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#79 Toshiaki Takata 6 Murata Manufacturing Co.
#80 Yusuke Kinoshita 6 Toyota Industries
#81 Atul Maheshwari 5 Intel
#82 Chih-Sheng Chen 5 Richwave Technology
#83 Chi-Lin Liu 5 TSMC
#84 Daniel Gruber 5 Intel
#85 Delong Cui 5 Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
#86 Dheeraj Subbareddy 5 Intel
#87 Divya Tripathi 5 Freeescale Semiconductor
#88 Edward K. Lee 5 Alfred E. Mann Foundation For Scientific Research
#89 Edgar Schmidhammer 5 Epcos Ag
#90 Joshua Cooper 5 —
#91 Kazunori Inoue 5 Mitsubishi Electric
#92 Keiichi Yamaguchi 5 Seiko Epson
#93 Kunal Datta 5 Skyworks Solutions
#94 Mitsuhiro Furukawa 5 Canon
#95 Neeraj Shrivastava 5 Texas Instruments
#96 Omar E. Elaasar 5 Apple
#97 Qingchao Meng 5 TSMC
#98 Qilong Su 5 Beijing Sogou Technology Development Co.
#99 Robert Mark Englekirk 5 Psemi
#100 Ruey-Bin Sheen 5 TSMC

Top Companies

Rank ↑ Company ↕ Patents ↕
1 Murata Manufacturing Co. 197
2 Samsung 127
3 Texas Instruments 116
#4 Skyworks Solutions 108
#5 Qualcomm 101
#6 Intel 74
#7 TSMC 62
#8 Huawei 60
#9 Qorvo Us 55
#10 Realtek Semiconductor 45
#11 Apple 43
#12 Seiko Epson 34
#13 Psemi 29
#14 Sony 29
#15 Infineon Technologies Ag 27
#16 Mediatek 27
#17 Sk Hynix 27
#18 Rohm Co. 26
#19 Rf360 Singapore Pte. 25
#20 Atombeam Technologies 23
#21 Nxp B.V. 22
#22 Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited 21
#23 IBM 21
#24 AMD 20
#25 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 19
#26 Ericsson 19
#27 Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage 18
#28 Panasonic 18
#29 Disney 17
#30 Micron 17
#31 KAIST 16
#32 Nxp Usa 15
#33 Skyworks Global Pte. 15
#34 NVIDIA 15
#35 Analog Devices 14
#36 Analog Devices International Unlimited 14
#37 Mitsubishi Electric 14
#38 Stmicroelectronics Sa 14
#39 Shenzhen Newsonic Technologies Co. 13
#40 Stmicroelectronics International N.V. 13
#41 Changxin Memory Technologies 12
#42 Cypress Semiconductor 12
#43 Google 12
#44 Microsoft 12
#45 RTX (Raytheon) 12
#46 Microchip Technology Incorporated 11
#47 Sumitomo Electric Industries 11
#48 Cirrus Logic 10
#49 Globalfoundries U.S. 10
#50 Northrop Grumman 10
#51 Richwave Technology 10
#52 Synopsys 10
#53 Tdk 10
#54 Kioxia 9
#55 Macom Technology Solutions Holdings 9
#56 Sk Hynix Nand Product Solutions 9
#57 Taiyo Yuden Co. 9
#58 United Microelectronics 9
#59 Cadence Design Systems 8
#60 Dolby Laboratories Licensing 8
#61 Infineon Technologies Austria Ag 8
#62 Kyocera 8
#63 Nuvoton Technology 8
#64 Rambus 8
#65 LG 8
#66 Fuji Electric Co. 7
#67 Kepler Computing 7
#68 Renesas Electronics 7
#69 onsemi 7
#70 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory 7
#71 University of California 7
#72 Tsmc Nanjing Company, Limited 7
#73 Cisco 7
#74 Akoustis 6
#75 Ciena 6
#76 CEA 6
#77 Imec Vzw 6
#78 Innolux 6
#79 Nec 6
#80 Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University 6
#81 Socionext 6
#82 Zte 6
#83 Toyota 6
#84 Daishinku 5
#85 Interdigital Patent Holdings 5
#86 Keysight Technologies 5
#87 Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy 5
#88 Robert Bosch Gmbh 5
#89 Sitime 5
#90 The Boeing 5
#91 BOE 5
#92 Canon 5
#93 Amazon 4
#94 Allegro Microsystems 4
#95 Beijing Eswin Computing Technology Co. 4
#96 Denso 4
#97 Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology 4
#98 Fraunhofer 4
#99 Gowin Semiconductor 4
#100 Invensense 4