mmWave Transceiver Waveform and Modulation Patent Landscape 2026
- Filing activity has already peaked. 2017 is the high-water mark at 2 filings and the 2022 midpoint sits flat at 2 — this is not a growth curve, it's a mature, thinly-filed niche.
- Antenna claims outnumber pure signal-processing claims. H01Q (antennas) appears in 13 of 25 records against H04B's 22, showing most waveform claims are drafted jointly with front-end hardware, not in isolation.
- The most-cited prior art predates the search window's core activity. The top-cited record (54 citations) and several 27–29-citation records date to 2004–2015, meaning current filers are building on decade-old foundational disclosures.
Filing growth compares 2021 (2 records) with 2024 (1) — a three-year span. 2024 is the most recent year we treat as complete: publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so 2025 onwards are still filling in and any growth rate that ends there would understate the field. Top-5 share is the combined record count of the five largest assignees divided by all 25 records in scope (CR5), not by the ranked leaders only.
What this landscape covers
This landscape tracks patent families at the intersection of mmWave transceiver or front-end hardware and waveform design, modulation scheme, OFDM or high-order QAM claim language, filtered to IPC classes covering modulation (H04L27), multiplexing (H04L5) and multi-antenna transmission (H04B7). It is a narrow, claim-language-specific cut of the broader mmWave field, not a survey of mmWave radio generally.
With 25 published records and 25 distinct families, raw counts and family counts are identical here — there is little continuation filing or multi-jurisdiction duplication to normalise. Publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so the 2026 figure of zero is an artefact of the data cut-off, not evidence that filing has stopped.
Filing trend and technology composition
Two views of the same 25-family dataset: when the claims were filed, and which IPC subclasses they were classified under alongside the core modulation classes.
Filing trend, 2017–2026
Filings peaked at 2 in 2017, held flat at 2 through the 2022 midpoint, and taper toward the data cut-off. There is no sustained upward trend inside this window; treat the apparent decline in the final one to two years as a reporting lag rather than a real drop-off.
IPC subclass distribution
H04B (general transmission) and H01Q (antennas) dominate at 22 and 13 records respectively, confirming that waveform and modulation claims in this corpus are almost always bundled with transmission-chain or antenna hardware claims. Smaller counts in H04W, G06F, A63F, G09G, H03F and H03G point to occasional filings that tie mmWave modulation to networking, gaming controllers, displays or amplifier gain control — thin but real adjacent claim territory.
Shares are the percentage of the 25 records in scope. A patent can carry several IPC classes, so the shares add up to more than 100%.
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Try EurekaRepresentative filing and most-cited prior art
Wireless communications device, gaming controller and integrated circuits with millimeter wave transceiver and methods for use therewith
An integrated circuit includes a millimeter wave transceiver section that is coupled to generate a first modulated RF signal from a first outbound symbol stream and to convert a first inbound RF signal into a first inbound symbol stream. A wireless transceiver section is coupled to generate a second modulated RF signal from a second outbound symbol stream and to convert a second inbound RF signal into a second inbound symbol stream. A processing module is coupled to convert first outbound data into the first outbound symbol stream, convert second outbound data into the second outbound symbol stream, convert the first inbound symbol stream into first inbound data, and to convert the second inbound symbol stream into second inbound data.Filed by AVAGO Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited; granted 2013-08-13.
| # | Publication no. | Patent title | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | US20150080039A1 | Systems and methods for a millimeter-wave-connected data center | 54 |
| 2 | US20210234592A1 | Hybrid digital-analog mmwave repeater/relay with full duplex | 29 |
| 3 | WO2016044069A1 | Apparatus, system and method of relay backhauling with millimeter wave carrier aggregation | 29 |
| 4 | US20100081381A1 | Multiband communication device for use with a mesh network and methods for use therewith | 29 |
| 5 | WO2004064197A1 | Low-cost wireless millimeter wave outdoor unit (ODU) | 27 |
| 6 | US20100083127A1 | Multiband communication device with graphical connection interface and methods for use therewith | 25 |
| 7 | US20090137317A1 | Wireless communications device, gaming controller and integrated circuits with millimeter wave transceiver an… | 13 |
| 8 | US11152991B2 | Hybrid digital-analog mmwave repeater/relay with full duplex | 10 |
| 9 | US8509707B2 | Wireless communications device, gaming controller and integrated circuits with millimeter wave transceiver an… | 8 |
| 10 | CN106575991A | 使用毫米波载波聚合的中继回程的装置、系统和方法 | 5 |
Citation counts reward older filings that have had more time to accumulate citations inside this searched corpus; read them as a signal of foundational influence, not of current commercial relevance.
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Three signals stand out once family counts, IPC spread and citation ages are read together.
The window has already closed once
A peak of 2 filings in 2017 followed by a flat midpoint of 2 in 2022 is not a technology ramping up — it is a claim space that saw a brief burst of interest and has not repeated it. Any new filing here competes against a decade of settled disclosure rather than a live filing race.
Waveform claims rarely stand alone
22 of 25 records touch H04B transmission classes and 13 also touch H01Q antenna classes, meaning most applicants are claiming modulation scheme and antenna/front-end structure together. Filing a pure baseband modulation claim without a hardware tie risks reading on prior art that already bundled the two.
Foundational art predates the search core
The most-cited record and several other high-citation records (29, 29, 27) originate well before the 2017 filing peak, some from 2004 and 2009. Freedom-to-operate work in this space has to reach back further than the visible filing trend suggests.
Eureka can read the same corpus for gaps instead of for coverage: under-claimed branches adjacent to mmwave transceiver waveform and modulation, with the prior art for and against each one.
Who holds the claim space
Recent-year momentum across the named assignees is flat: each of the tracked entities shows 0 filings in the latest year, consistent with the overall plateau in the filing trend. That does not mean the space is abandoned — it means the most recent activity has not yet cleared publication lag, or the entities that filed in the 2017 peak have not returned.
US filing dominates the office split
Fifteen of the twenty-five records were filed at the USPTO, with EPO, India, WIPO, Australia and China each accounting for single-digit counts. A freedom-to-operate check that stops at the US office will miss a real but minority share of filings routed through Europe and India.
No tracked assignee is actively filing right now
Every one of the top named assignees shows zero filings in the latest tracked year. Combined with the flat 2022 midpoint, this suggests the visible players established their positions earlier and have not returned to file follow-on claims inside this specific search scope.
No continuation inflation in this set
Every published record in this corpus maps to a distinct family, with none of the multi-jurisdiction or continuation duplication that inflates raw counts in denser fields. Counting records or counting families gives the same read on this topic.
| Assignee | Recent year | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Nicgene Partners IP LLC | 0 | — |
| Intel IP Corporation | 0 | — |
| Broadcom Corporation | 0 | — |
| Chaichuansi Co., Ltd. | 0 | — |
| Linear Technology Corporation | 0 | — |
Where to take this analysis
The dataset points to a mature, narrowly-filed claim space with old foundational art and no current filing momentum among the named assignees. Two follow-up moves make sense before committing R&D or filing budget.
Run freedom-to-operate on the pre-2015 art
The highest-cited records in this corpus date to 2004 and 2009, well before the visible filing peak. Any new waveform or modulation claim needs clearance against that older art, not just the 2017–2022 filings.
Explore in Eureka →Draft claims that bundle antenna structure with modulation
With 13 of 25 records touching H01Q alongside H04B, a modulation claim filed without a front-end hardware tie sits in a thinner, more exposed position than one that bundles the two.
Explore in Eureka →Common questions on mmWave waveform and modulation patents
Based on this corpus, filing activity peaked at 2 records in 2017 and has not exceeded that since, with the 2022 midpoint also at 2. That is a flat trend, not a growing one, though the final one to two years are understated because publication typically lags filing by around 18 months. Anyone assessing this space should treat the apparent recent decline with caution and revisit the trend once later filings have had time to publish.
In this dataset, 13 of 25 records classified under the core transmission class H04B are also classified under H01Q, the antenna IPC subclass. This reflects how mmWave systems are actually engineered: waveform and modulation choices are tightly coupled to antenna array structure and beamforming hardware at these frequencies. Drafting a modulation claim in isolation, without a hardware tie, is less common in the granted and published art and may face a thinner prior-art buffer.
The most-cited records in this corpus are the ones to check first: a 2013-era record on millimeter-wave-connected data centers with 54 citations, and several 2004–2016 records on relay backhauling, multiband mesh devices and outdoor units with 27–29 citations each. These predate the 2017 filing peak, so they represent foundational disclosures that later filers had to design around. A search limited to the last five years will miss them.
The USPTO accounts for 15 of the 25 records in this corpus, making it the dominant receiving office by a wide margin. The EPO and India each show single-digit counts, with WIPO PCT filings, Australia and China rounding out the remainder. A clearance search or competitive watch focused only on the US office would miss a real, if minority, share of activity routed through other offices.
US8509707B2, assigned to AVAGO Technologies, claims an integrated circuit combining a millimeter wave transceiver section with a separate wireless transceiver section, each converting between symbol streams and RF signals, coordinated by a shared processing module. It is relevant to anyone building a dual-band or dual-transceiver mmWave chip where the mmWave and lower-frequency paths share baseband processing. A design that keeps the mmWave and wireless sections fully independent, without shared symbol-stream conversion logic, sits further from this claim.
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