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 |