- All sections
- H - Electricity
- H04L - Transmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication
- H04L 12/46 - Interconnection of networks
Patent holdings for IPC class H04L 12/46
Total number of patents in this class: 11756
10-year publication summary
1055
|
1077
|
1136
|
1068
|
1194
|
1074
|
984
|
912
|
633
|
240
|
2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
---|---|---|
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | 110803 |
958 |
Cisco Technology, Inc. | 19599 |
892 |
VMware LLC | 6906 |
583 |
ZTE Corporation | 41969 |
351 |
Juniper Networks, Inc. | 3701 |
320 |
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP | 10694 |
272 |
Amazon Technologies, Inc. | 26440 |
237 |
Ericsson | 21565 |
175 |
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | 53472 |
173 |
NEC Corporation | 35291 |
169 |
Oracle International Corporation | 12905 |
168 |
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) | 27768 |
165 |
International Business Machines Corporation | 60907 |
152 |
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. | 15321 |
134 |
Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. | 10247 |
125 |
AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd. | 6506 |
124 |
Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | 8838 |
124 |
Arista Networks, Inc. | 1073 |
123 |
Intel Corporation | 46678 |
115 |
Dell Products L.P. | 14048 |
102 |
Other owners | 6294 |