Hardware Accelerated Query Processing Patents: Who Holds the Ground
28.9% concentration. The five leading assignees hold 59,705 of 206,749 records in scope — a real lead but not a lock, since the other 71% is spread across a long tail. Annual filings moved from 1,175 in 2017 to a peak of 1,787 in 2020. The reliable comparison window, 2021 to 2024, shows a -32% move from 1,721 to 1,164 filings — a real cooling, not an artifact of publication lag, though the 2025–2026 figures are still incomplete.
- 1QUALCOMM INC11.8%
- 2LG ELECTRONICS INC6.9%
- 3INTEL CORP4.6%
- 4TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)3.0%
- 5SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD2.6%
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- The complete ranking, not just the top five
- Every IPC branch with its share of the corpus
- The most-cited records, and where claim space is still thin
Common questions about this landscape
Who holds the most patents in hardware accelerated query processing?
The leading assignee holds 24,371 records in this dataset, well ahead of the fifth-place holder at 5,302 and tenth place at 2,206. The top five assignees combined hold 59,705 records, which is 28.9% of all 206,749 records in scope. That leaves a substantial majority of the field spread across a long tail of smaller filers, so leadership at the top does not mean the space is closed to new entrants.
Is patent filing in this field growing or shrinking?
Filing volume peaked at 1,787 records in 2020 and has since eased, with the reliable 2021-to-2024 window showing a -32% move from 1,721 to 1,164 filings. The 2025 and 2026 figures in the trend look lower still, but publication typically lags filing by around 18 months, so those most recent years are undercounted rather than necessarily reflecting a real drop. The 2021-2024 comparison is the figure to rely on for direction.
What patent classes cover hardware accelerated query processing?
The densest class is G06F, electric digital data processing, covering 4.8% of all 206,749 records in scope. H04L (digital information transmission) follows at 2.3% and H04W (wireless communication networks) at 1.4%, with the remaining classes — G06N, G06T, H04B, H04N and G11C — all under 1% each. Because a single record can carry multiple IPC classes, these shares add up to more than 100% and should not be summed.
Disclaimer. This analysis is based on Patsnap Eureka data drawn from a limited snapshot of global patent records and is provided for general information and reference only. Patent data carries inherent limitations — recent filings are under-counted because of publication lag, counts may be on a record or family basis, classification and applicant-name data may contain errors or duplicates, and the underlying search query defines the scope shown — so the analysis may be incomplete or inaccurate and may not reflect the full technology landscape.
Nothing here is an exhaustive prior-art, novelty, freedom-to-operate or validity search, nor does it constitute legal, financial or professional advice, and it should not be relied upon as such. Verify independently and review with qualified patent and legal professionals before acting on it.
Method: Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on Hardware Accelerated Query Processing covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish. Every share divides by all records in scope. Data: Patsnap Eureka. See the full landscape report.