H04W 4/80
Services using short range communication
Official title: Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
H04W4/80 (Services using short range communication) appears on 23,295 US grants and 29,449 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04W- Granted patents
- 23,295
- Published applications
- 29,449
- Assignees
- 5,793
- Inventors
- 38,553
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 21 |
| 2003 | 2 | 10 |
| 2004 | 8 | 25 |
| 2005 | 6 | 30 |
| 2006 | 16 | 46 |
| 2007 | 12 | 38 |
| 2008 | 26 | 116 |
| 2009 | 25 | 102 |
| 2010 | 38 | 138 |
| 2011 | 78 | 216 |
| 2012 | 143 | 404 |
| 2013 | 244 | 766 |
| 2014 | 441 | 1321 |
| 2015 | 879 | 2147 |
| 2016 | 1458 | 2903 |
| 2017 | 2164 | 3088 |
| 2018 | 2446 | 2650 |
| 2019 | 2703 | 2675 |
| 2020 | 2599 | 2924 |
| 2021 | 2322 | 2415 |
| 2022 | 2002 | 2116 |
| 2023 | 1897 | 1709 |
| 2024 | 1703 | 1482 |
| 2025 | 1401 | 1242 |
| 2026 | 680 | 865 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Universal lighting network methods and systems1,007US 6,548,967 B1Color Kinetics Incorporated · 2003
- Association management in a wireless node network755US 8,989,053 B1Fedex Corporate Services, Inc. · 2015
- Systems and methods for the automatic registration of devices649US 6,686,838 B1Xanboo, Inc. · 2004
- Multi-services application gateway and system employing the same602US 8,543,665 B2Prodea Systems, Inc. · 2013
- Single tap transactions using an NFC enabled mobile device564US 8,332,272 B2Blaze Mobile, Inc. · 2012