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Patent Landscape · Telecom & WirelessmmWave transceiver patents for wireless connectivity and IoT
- A single repeater/relay family dominates citations. one hybrid digital-analog full-duplex relay design accounts for the most-cited records in this corpus by a wide margin, making it the reference point any new relay architecture will be measured against.
- Filing has plateaued, not accelerated. activity peaked in 2022 at four families and has not exceeded that level since, despite mmWave connectivity's continued commercial rollout.
- Every record routes through the US. all twelve families in this dataset were filed through United States receiving offices, with no parallel filing pattern visible elsewhere in the record set.
12
Published Records
-50%
Filing Growth 2021→2024
US
Leading Jurisdiction
2022
Peak Filing Year
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.
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Overview
What this landscape covers
This review tracks patent families combining mmWave transceiver, millimeter wave transceiver or mmWave front-end terminology with claims directed at 5G mmWave connectivity, fixed wireless access, mmWave backhaul or IoT connectivity, restricted to the IPC classes covering point-to-multipoint radio, radio relay systems and wireless network arrangements. It is a narrow, deliberately filtered slice of the broader mmWave field, not a general survey of millimeter-wave radio.
The corpus is small — twelve published families — which means single documents carry disproportionate weight in both the citation counts and the technology composition figures below. Read the concentration here as a property of this specific claim intersection, not of mmWave radio as a whole.
Filing activity by year
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Assignee ranking and totals. Derived from a Patsnap search on mmWave Transceiver Wireless Connectivity and IoT covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
The data
Filing trends and technology composition
Two views of the same twelve families: how filing activity has moved year over year, and which IPC subclasses the claims actually sit in.
Filing trend, 2017–2026
Filings were absent in the earliest years tracked, rose to a peak of four families in 2022, and have not returned to or exceeded that level since. Because publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, the most recent years in this trend will fill in further as later applications publish — treat the 2022 peak as the most reliable read on where activity actually crested.
IPC composition
Every family in this set touches H04B transmission claims, and nine of the twelve also carry H01Q antenna claims — consistent with a corpus centred on transceiver hardware where antenna array design and baseband transmission are claimed together rather than separately.
Shares are the percentage of the 12 records in scope. A patent can carry several IPC classes, so the shares add up to more than 100%.
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on mmWave Transceiver Wireless Connectivity and IoT covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.
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The most-cited records in this corpus
Representative filing
Hybrid digital-analog mmwave repeater/relay with full duplex
NXGEN PARTNERS IP, LLC
A system for transmitting millimeter wave signals includes a plurality of transceivers for communicating with a plurality of remote locations over millimeter wave communications links. Each of the plurality of transceivers further includes a patch antenna array having a plurality of patch antennas. The plurality of patch antennas includes a transmitter array portion in a first orientation for transmitting signals and a receiver array portion in a second orientation for receiving signals. The first and second orientations limit interference between the transmitted signals and the received signals. Baseband processing circuitry converts between millimeter wave and baseband signals.Abstract text as published; number, assignee and filing date are rendered above.
Most-cited patents
| # | Publication no. | Patent title | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | US20210234592A1 | Hybrid digital-analog mmwave repeater/relay with full duplex | 29 |
| 2 | US11152991B2 | Hybrid digital-analog mmwave repeater/relay with full duplex | 10 |
| 3 | US20240195448A1 | DIGITAL PRE-PROCESSING CHIP FOR mmWAVE TRANSCEIVER ARCHITECTURES | 3 |
| 4 | US11791877B1 | Hybrid digital-analog MMWAVE repeater/relay with full duplex | 2 |
| 5 | US20230421218A1 | Hybrid digital-analog mmwave repeater/relay with full duplex | 1 |
| 6 | US12101150B2 | Hybrid digital-analog mmWave repeater/relay with full duplex | 1 |
| 7 | US20230327722A1 | Hybrid digital-analog mmwave repeater/relay with full duplex | 1 |
| 8 | US12425065B2 | Digital pre-processing chip for mmWAVE transceiver architectures | 1 |
| 9 | US11489573B2 | Hybrid digital-analog mmwave repeater/relay with full duplex | 1 |
Citation counts are drawn from documents indexed within this search corpus and skew toward older filings by construction — treat them as a signal of influence within this dataset, not as a current importance ranking.
Publication numbers are shown where the record carries one (9 of 9 rows); clicking a row searches Eureka by that number.
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What the numbers mean for filing strategy
Three findings from this dataset that change how a filing or freedom-to-operate assessment should be scoped.
Concentration
1 family, 5 of the top cited records
citation share
One relay architecture anchors the citation graph
The hybrid digital-analog full-duplex repeater/relay family appears repeatedly among the most-cited records in this corpus, in continuation and related filings. Any new full-duplex relay design in this space should expect to be compared against it during examination.
Based on most-cited records table
Momentum
Peak: 2022 at 4 families
filings per year
Activity has plateaued since its 2022 peak
Filing rose from zero in the earliest tracked years to four families in 2022, then did not exceed that level. Combined with publication lag, this reads as a technology area where the claim space filled quickly around one core architecture rather than one still expanding outward.
Based on filing trend, 2017–2026
Geography
United States: 12 of 12
receiving office share
Filing activity is entirely US-routed
Every family in this dataset was filed through a United States receiving office. That is a property of this search's scope and should not be read as evidence that mmWave transceiver activity elsewhere is absent — only that this particular claim intersection has not surfaced non-US filings.
Based on receiving office data
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Source: Patsnap Eureka. Co-assignee relationships and derived observations. Derived from a Patsnap search on mmWave Transceiver Wireless Connectivity and IoT covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
Players
Who is filing, and where the gaps sit
Twelve families is too small a set to support a conventional leaderboard narrative, but the assignee data still shows where activity has cooled and where the surrounding claim space remains open.
Momentum
0 in latest year
recent filings
Recent-year activity has gone quiet
The assignees with recent filing history in this corpus, including Nickgen Partners IP, LLC (Nickgen Partners IP) and Binwei Corporation, both show no filings in the latest year, with one recording a full year-over-year drop. That pattern is consistent with the broader plateau visible in the filing trend rather than an isolated event.
Based on recent-year momentum by assignee
Structure
12 families, 12 records
corpus size
A small, tightly filtered field
With one record per family across the set, there is no visible pattern of one assignee out-filing the rest through volume. Competitive read-through from this dataset alone should be treated as directional, not definitive.
Based on assignee ranking
Citations
Cited 29, 10, 3, 2, 1
top citation counts
Influence is steep, not gradual
The drop from the top-cited record to the next tier is sharp, then flattens quickly. That steep gradient usually means one filing set the vocabulary examiners and applicants now reference, and later filings are being read against it rather than against each other.
Based on most-cited records table
Recent-year filing momentum
| Assignee | Recent year | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Nickgen Partners IP, LLC | 0 | — |
| Binwei Corporation | 0 | -100% |
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Assignee-level momentum. Derived from a Patsnap search on mmWave Transceiver Wireless Connectivity and IoT covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
What's next
Where to take this analysis
This landscape flags where the claim space is dense and where it thins out. Turning that into a filing or freedom-to-operate decision means going deeper on the specific claims involved.
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Before drafting around full-duplex repeater or relay architecture, pull the independent claims of the hybrid digital-analog family and its continuations to see exactly what is and is not covered.
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With recent-year filings quiet across the tracked assignees, watch for the next filer to move into this space, since a plateaued field can turn quickly once one new entrant claims fresh ground.
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FAQ
Common questions on mmWave transceiver patents
In this dataset, the most-cited records all trace back to a single hybrid digital-analog mmWave repeater/relay family with full-duplex capability, filed by NXGEN Partners IP, LLC. That family and its continuations account for the highest citation counts in the corpus by a clear margin. Other assignees appear in the broader twelve-family set, but none currently match that citation concentration, so any competitive review should start with this family before looking at the rest of the field.
Not on the evidence here. Filing activity rose from zero in the earliest years tracked to a peak of four families in 2022, and has not exceeded that level since. Because publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, the most recent years will likely fill in somewhat as pending applications publish, but the overall shape is a plateau rather than sustained growth.
US20210234592A1 covers a hybrid digital-analog mmWave repeater/relay system with full-duplex operation, built around transceivers with patch antenna arrays split into differently oriented transmit and receive portions to limit self-interference, plus baseband processing circuitry for the mmWave-to-baseband conversion. Anyone building a full-duplex mmWave relay using orientation-based transmit/receive isolation in a patch antenna array should map their design against this claim set specifically, not just against the general concept of full-duplex relaying. Continuations and related filings from the same family extend this coverage further, so a single-patent check is not sufficient.
The dataset shows dense claiming around full-duplex repeater/relay architecture and patch antenna array design, but thinner coverage in adjacent areas such as beamforming calibration specific to patch arrays, full-duplex interference-cancellation algorithms at baseband, mmWave backhaul link adaptation, and IoT-specific power management for mmWave radios. These are not confirmed empty; they are simply less densely claimed within this filtered corpus, which makes them worth a targeted freedom-to-operate search before assuming they are open.
Every one of the twelve families captured by this search's specific IPC and keyword filters was filed through a United States receiving office. That reflects the scope of this particular search string and classification filter, not a claim that mmWave transceiver innovation is a US-only activity globally. A broader or differently scoped search would likely surface filings routed through other jurisdictions.
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