Massive MIMO Base Station Antennas: Patents, Leaders and Filing Trends
Concentrated at the top. The five most active filers together account for 46.0% of all 2,506 records in scope, and the leading ten reach 60.2%. Filings rose from 174 in 2017 to a peak of 282 in 2021, then declined to 157 by 2024 — a -44% move over that three-year span. 2025 and 2026 figures are still incomplete because publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so treat the most recent bars as a floor, not a final count.
- 1OUTDOOR WIRELESS NETWORKS LLC14.7%
- 2HUAWEI TECH CO LTD12.9%
- 3COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC11.0%
- 4TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)3.7%
- 5ISCO INTERNATIONAL LLC3.7%
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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 massive MIMO base station antennas?
The ranked leader in this dataset holds 369 of the 2,506 records in scope, well ahead of the fifth-place assignee at 92 and the tenth-place assignee at 52. The top five assignees combined account for 46.0% of all records, and the top ten reach 60.2%. Beyond that concentrated top, filing activity spreads across a long tail of the remaining ranked companies, each holding a comparatively small number of records.
Is patent filing in this field growing or slowing down?
Filing volume rose from 174 records in 2017 to a peak of 282 in 2021, then fell to 157 by 2024, a -44% decline over that three-year span. That is the most reliable read available because 2024 is the most recent year that can be treated as complete. Figures for 2025 and 2026 are still incomplete since publication typically lags filing by around 18 months, so a further slowdown should not be assumed from the most recent bars alone.
What technology areas do these patents actually cover?
The corpus is anchored on base station and active antenna hardware paired with specific engineering problems: column calibration, beam pattern sets, passive intermodulation, port isolation, wind load and heat dissipation. H01Q (antennas) appears in 70.6% of the 2,506 records, making it by far the dominant classification, followed by H04B transmission at 22.1% and H04W wireless networks at 13.7%. Narrower classes like H01R connectors (4.8%) and G06N AI-based computing (3.0%) show where claim density is much thinner.
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 Massive MIMO Base Station Antennas 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.