5G RF/Antenna Materials Patent Snapshot 2026
The 5G RF/antenna materials patent corpus is small and highly fragmented, dominated by Indian academic institutions with no single applicant holding more than one patent record. The field is still expanding on a multi-year basis, though annual volume has eased from its 2022 peak and the most recent filings remain understated by publication lag.
India’s academic institutions lead a fragmented, early-stage corpus
Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Manipal University Jaipur, Lovely Professional University, and National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur each hold one patent record, placing them jointly at the top of the ranking alongside multiple individual inventors and smaller engineering colleges. No single filer has established a visible share.
The top five filers account for 28% of the ranked applicants visible in this query’ combined total, indicating very low concentration — a field where no applicant has yet built a defensible portfolio lead. The tier gap between any two applicants is zero, reinforcing the fragmented picture.
| # | Applicant | Patent records | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Graphic Era Deemed to be University | 1 | |
| 2 | Manipal University Jaipur | 1 | |
| 3 | Rao Nalabolu Srinivasa | 1 | |
| 4 | Lovely Professional University | 1 | |
| 5 | Mr. Abishek V S | 1 | |
| 6 | Ms. Devakipriya R | 1 | |
| 7 | Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology | 1 | |
| 8 | Mr. Dhinakar D | 1 | |
| 9 | Mr. Vadivelu R | 1 |
| # | Applicant | Patent records | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Anurag Engineering College | 1 | |
| 11 | Swathi Naga N | 1 | |
| 12 | Mr. Santhakumar G | 1 | |
| 13 | National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur | 1 | |
| 14 | Liu Liangjiang | 1 | |
| 15 | Li Linying | 1 | |
| 16 | Tyco Electronics AMP Korea | 1 | |
| 17 | Kalpana K | 1 | |
| 18 | Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology | 1 |
The leaders’ positions imply that this is a pre-commercial, research-driven space: universities and individual inventors are setting the early technical agenda, and there is no incumbent with sufficient portfolio depth to constrain new entrants through IP exclusivity alone.
Filings from 2025 and 2026 are likely understated due to standard patent publication lag of 12–18 months; the apparent plateau in those years should not be interpreted as a slowdown. Longer-window growth, applicant concentration, and technology-route coverage are therefore more reliable signals than the latest-year bar alone.
Multi-year growth with antenna design dominating the technology mix
Two charts below illustrate the filing trajectory since 2017 and the IPC class breakdown that reveals which technical sub-areas attract the most activity.
Annual filing trend
Activity was negligible before 2019, reached a local peak in 2022, dipped in 2023, then recovered with three records each in 2025 and 2026. Because 2025 and 2026 filings are still working through the publication pipeline, the field is on a multi-year growth trajectory even though annual volume has eased from the 2022 peak.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaTechnology composition
H01Q (Antennas) accounts for the entirety of the corpus, signalling that current research is concentrated on antenna geometry and structural design rather than the broader RF materials stack. H04B (Transmission), H01P (Waveguides and microwave elements), H04L (Digital information transmission), and H05K (Printed circuits and assemblies) each appear only once, pointing to adjacent branches that remain lightly covered.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaHighly cited patent families surfaced by the query
Citation-heavy patent families returned by the query. Use this section as citation context, not as a curated list of the most topic-specific patents.
A system and method for self-octaplexing eight-ban…
The invention relates to a self-octaplexing eightband QMSIW antenna array designed for millimeter-wave 5G FR2 communications. A common dielectric substrate (10) having a predetermined low-loss dielectric constant supports eight QMSIW resonators (12a-12h), each defined by patterned metal cladding to establish conductive walls and partial cavity boundaries… (excerpt from the patent abstract)
Open this patent in Eureka →Ranked by total forward citations. Citation counts favour older and broadly cited patent families, and broad or adjacent patents may appear when they match the search scope. Treat this section as citation context, not as a curated list of the most topic-specific patents. Some patent titles may be shown in their original, non-English language where an accurate translation could not be guaranteed.
Assignee snapshot from the current evidence set
The applicants below are visible in this query result. Because the evidence set is relatively small, read this section as a directional snapshot rather than a full competitive ranking.
Graphic Era Deemed to be University
Graphic Era Deemed to be University is the top-listed applicant in the ranking with one patent record focused on antenna design (H01Q). As an Indian academic institution it represents the visible research model in this corpus — university-led exploration rather than commercial product development. No momentum data is available in evidence beyond its ranking position.
patent records: 1Lovely Professional University
Lovely Professional University holds one patent record and is identified in the momentum data as a new entrant (trend: new entrant), suggesting recent first-time filing activity. Its technology focus sits within the H01Q antenna design branch, consistent with the broader corpus. As a new entrant from a large Indian engineering institution, it could scale filings quickly if institutional IP programs are formalized.
patent records: 1Frequently asked questions
The corpus contains 11 patent families in scope, making it a small, early-stage dataset. This scale is consistent with the nascent, academically driven nature of the field as currently documented.
India leads by a wide margin, with nine of the patent records filed there. China and South Korea each account for one record. Major 5G manufacturing jurisdictions such as the United States, Japan, and Europe are absent from the current corpus.
The lifecycle evidence classifies the field as Growth. Recent three-year filings are 50% above the prior three-year window on a multi-year basis. Annual volume eased after a 2022 peak, but this should be read alongside publication lag, which understates the most recent years.
Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Manipal University Jaipur, Lovely Professional University, and National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur are among the top-ranked applicants, each with one patent record. Individual inventors and smaller engineering colleges also feature prominently.
H01P (Waveguides and microwave elements), H04L (Digital information transmission), and H05K (Printed circuits and assemblies) each hold only one patent record and represent roughly 6% of the corpus each. These branches are adjacent to the visible H01Q antenna design work and have low prior-art density.
The corpus is predominantly academic and inventor-led. Tyco Electronics AMP Korea (a subsidiary of TE Connectivity) is the only clearly identifiable industrial applicant in the ranking, holding one patent record focused on H01Q antenna design. No other large commercial 5G supply-chain players appear in the evidence.
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