H04M 1/72
Mobile telephones
Official title: Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
H04M1/72 (Mobile telephones) appears on 32,025 US grants and 40,291 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04M- Granted patents
- 32,025
- Published applications
- 40,291
- Assignees
- 6,041
- Inventors
- 53,703
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 4 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 7 | 0 |
| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 3 | 0 |
| 1984 | 13 | 0 |
| 1985 | 12 | 0 |
| 1986 | 10 | 0 |
| 1987 | 27 | 0 |
| 1988 | 26 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 37 | 0 |
| 1991 | 50 | 0 |
| 1992 | 42 | 0 |
| 1993 | 60 | 0 |
| 1994 | 75 | 0 |
| 1995 | 67 | 0 |
| 1996 | 121 | 0 |
| 1997 | 118 | 0 |
| 1998 | 191 | 0 |
| 1999 | 222 | 0 |
| 2000 | 258 | 0 |
| 2001 | 299 | 272 |
| 2002 | 301 | 780 |
| 2003 | 326 | 846 |
| 2004 | 398 | 1200 |
| 2005 | 415 | 1419 |
| 2006 | 768 | 1585 |
| 2007 | 648 | 1762 |
| 2008 | 606 | 1721 |
| 2009 | 690 | 1687 |
| 2010 | 901 | 1652 |
| 2011 | 1161 | 1567 |
| 2012 | 1494 | 1714 |
| 2013 | 1690 | 1941 |
| 2014 | 1854 | 2305 |
| 2015 | 1966 | 2524 |
| 2016 | 2084 | 2574 |
| 2017 | 2351 | 2486 |
| 2018 | 2083 | 1999 |
| 2019 | 2184 | 1829 |
| 2020 | 1927 | 1791 |
| 2021 | 1514 | 1499 |
| 2022 | 1301 | 1385 |
| 2023 | 1190 | 1223 |
| 2024 | 1050 | 1086 |
| 2025 | 941 | 880 |
| 2026 | 494 | 564 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Processor power management6 Oct 2026US 12,754,597 B2Intel Corporation
- Systems and methods for vending and/or purchasing mobile phones and other electronic devices6 Oct 2026US 12,755,598 B2ecoATM, LLC
- Monitoring system for use with mobile communication device6 Oct 2026US 12,755,624 B2
- Speakerphone with room acoustics characterization and related methods6 Oct 2026US 12,756,775 B2
- Communication control device and onboard device6 Oct 2026US 12,756,972 B2JVCKENWOOD Corporation
- Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Providing a Home Button Replacement8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310305 A1Apple Inc.
- Controlling the Communication of a Driver of a Motor Vehicle8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313049 A1Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
- System and Method for Arbitrating Lock Screen Surface Access Among Competing Vendor Applications on a Mobile Device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313050 A1T-Mobile Innovations LLC
- System and Method for Identity-Weighted Access Token Generation and Capability-Aware Delivery8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313051 A1Taptext LLC
- User interfaces for interacting with a wearable device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313221 A1Apple Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Intelligent touch display1,903US 6,310,610 B1Nortel Networks Limited · 2001
- Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics1,894US 7,479,949 B2Apple Inc. · 2009
- Method of using a communications device together with another communications device, a communications system, a communications device and an accessory device for use in connection with a communications device1,777US 7,130,608 B2Telefonaktiegolaget LM Ericsson (publ) · 2006
- Multifunctional world wide walkie talkie, a tri-frequency cellular-satellite wireless instant messenger computer and network for establishing global wireless volp quality of service (qos) communications, unified messaging, and video conferencing via the internet1,246US 6,763,226 B1Computer Science Central, Inc. · 2004
- Method and apparatus for scheduling presentation of digital content on a personal communication device1,212US 6,834,195 B22004