Internet of Things - top patent holders 2017

Ranking of the leading IoT patent holders by number of equivalents in 2017
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The data shows the leading Internet of Things (IoT) patent holders in 2017. In that year, Samsung had 4,565 IoT patent equivalents.

Samsung 4565
Qualcomm 2880
LG 2074
Huawei 2056
Intel 1764
ZTE 1722
Sony 1614
Ericsson 1522
Korea Electronics Telecomm 1372
Nokia 1241
Siemens 1091
NEC 1053
Panasonic 1045
SGC China 948
Philips 904
Cisco 887
Alcatel-Lucent 874
Microsoft 784
IBM 774
Fujitsu 772