H04W 16/18
Network planning tools
H04W16/18 (Network planning tools) appears on 3,071 US grants and 3,565 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04W- Granted patents
- 3,071
- Published applications
- 3,565
- Assignees
- 935
- Inventors
- 6,450
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
| 1995 | 5 | 0 |
| 1996 | 7 | 0 |
| 1997 | 9 | 0 |
| 1998 | 18 | 0 |
| 1999 | 26 | 0 |
| 2000 | 38 | 0 |
| 2001 | 24 | 5 |
| 2002 | 30 | 17 |
| 2003 | 32 | 45 |
| 2004 | 24 | 51 |
| 2005 | 22 | 53 |
| 2006 | 54 | 70 |
| 2007 | 41 | 75 |
| 2008 | 31 | 66 |
| 2009 | 42 | 57 |
| 2010 | 49 | 84 |
| 2011 | 66 | 67 |
| 2012 | 72 | 71 |
| 2013 | 73 | 103 |
| 2014 | 94 | 151 |
| 2015 | 117 | 188 |
| 2016 | 159 | 178 |
| 2017 | 165 | 184 |
| 2018 | 196 | 195 |
| 2019 | 245 | 216 |
| 2020 | 224 | 219 |
| 2021 | 221 | 235 |
| 2022 | 195 | 230 |
| 2023 | 193 | 262 |
| 2024 | 196 | 315 |
| 2025 | 222 | 259 |
| 2026 | 172 | 169 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Microwave path search using segmented buffer expansions between sites6 Oct 2026US 12,757,159 B2Wireless Applications Corp.
- Prioritizing AFC requests29 Sep 2026US 12,750,687 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- 5G native architecture29 Sep 2026US 12,750,688 B2Parallel Wireless, Inc.
- Methods and apparatus for determining and/or using propagation loss between a transmitter and a receiver based on terrain and clutter data22 Sep 2026US 12,744,606 B2Charter Communications Operating, LLC
- Positioning and communication system for dynamic location tracking in an indoor environment22 Sep 2026US 12,745,056 B2Relay, Inc.
- Scalalable Drone Swarm Networking with Unified 5G and Wi-Fi8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313386 A1Hughes Network Systems, LLC
- Interactions and interoperations of analytics functions in a wireless communications network8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313418 A1Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
- Electronic device and method for performing audio communication between first space and second space1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299872 A1Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
- Radio zone design apparatus, radio zone design method, and program1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304141 A1NTT, Inc.
- Radio access network (ran) intelligent controller application (rapp)-coordinated time division duplexing (tdd) configuration in open radio access network (o-ran)1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304142 A1Boost SubscriberCo L.L.C.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods and systems for a mobile, broadband, routable internet582US 8,060,017 B2Powerwave Cognition, Inc. · 2011
- Transmission device with channel equalization and control and methods for use therewith474US 9,680,670 B2AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P. · 2017
- System and method for indicating the presence or physical location of persons or devices in a site specific representation of a physical environment455US 7,295,119 B2Wireless Valley Communications, Inc. · 2007
- Method and system for automated optimization of antenna positioning in 3-D396US 6,317,599 B1Wireless Valley Communications, Inc. · 2001
- Mobile broadband wireless access point network with wireless backhaul362US 7,620,370 B2Designart Networks Ltd · 2009