- 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: 12171
10-year publication summary
|
1078
|
1136
|
1068
|
1195
|
1074
|
995
|
931
|
670
|
487
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322
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| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Cisco Technology, Inc. | 22668 |
935 |
| Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | 125590 |
915 |
| VMware LLC | 6967 |
557 |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP | 12492 |
353 |
| ZTE Corporation | 44368 |
352 |
| Juniper Networks, Inc. | 2426 |
273 |
| Amazon Technologies, Inc. | 28358 |
255 |
| Oracle International Corporation | 13759 |
189 |
| Ericsson | 23125 |
178 |
| Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | 54706 |
178 |
| Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) | 29015 |
163 |
| Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. | 16419 |
155 |
| NEC Corporation | 37563 |
152 |
| International Business Machines Corporation | 62871 |
151 |
| Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. | 11259 |
146 |
| AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd. | 7319 |
145 |
| Arista Networks, Inc. | 1278 |
140 |
| Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | 8518 |
127 |
| Intel Corporation | 46342 |
113 |
| Dell Products L.P. | 17348 |
111 |
| Other owners | 6583 |