Patent Theme
Hardware Network Acceleration
Utilizing specialized hardware components such as network processing units (NPUs) or dedicated acceleration circuits to offload and speed up network packet processing, traffic generation, or time-sensitive network operations.
6,366 US filings from 747 companies since 2023 · 2023: 1,726 · 2024: 1,952 · 2025: 1,848 · 2026 YTD: 840
Network Management & Monitoring
Top companies
Ranked by filings in this theme since 2023. 2026 is partial.
| # | Company | Since 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 YTD | YoY |
|---|
| 1 | INTEL CORPORATION | 360 | 119 | 103 | 102 | 36 | -1.0% |
| 2 | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | 341 | 126 | 104 | 80 | 31 | -23.1% |
| 3 | Cisco Technology, Inc. | 243 | 58 | 74 | 78 | 33 | +5.4% |
| 4 | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | 225 | 46 | 65 | 80 | 34 | +23.1% |
| 5 | BRIGHT DATA LTD. | 184 | 47 | 71 | 42 | 24 | -40.8% |
| 6 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP | 181 | 33 | 55 | 62 | 31 | +12.7% |
| 7 | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | 176 | 40 | 48 | 58 | 30 | +20.8% |
| 8 | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. | 164 | 42 | 49 | 50 | 23 | +2.0% |
| 9 | Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) | 157 | 42 | 54 | 39 | 22 | -27.8% |
| 10 | Arista Networks, Inc. | 136 | 29 | 39 | 43 | 25 | +10.3% |
| 11 | Juniper Networks, Inc. | 134 | 42 | 49 | 34 | 9 | -30.6% |
| 12 | GOOGLE LLC | 117 | 32 | 39 | 38 | 8 | -2.6% |
| 13 | International Business Machines Corporation | 100 | 37 | 34 | 18 | 11 | -47.1% |
| 14 | VMware, Inc. | 98 | 74 | 19 | 5 | · | -73.7% |
| 15 | DELL PRODUCTS L.P. | 96 | 17 | 20 | 31 | 28 | +55.0% |
| 16 | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | 95 | 31 | 28 | 24 | 12 | -14.3% |
| 17 | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation | 91 | 34 | 37 | 19 | 1 | -48.6% |
| 18 | VMware LLC | 90 | · | 35 | 46 | 9 | +31.4% |
| 19 | XILINX, INC. | 78 | 22 | 23 | 21 | 12 | -8.7% |
| 20 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 78 | 13 | 20 | 27 | 18 | +35.0% |
| 21 | Apple Inc. | 77 | 14 | 26 | 25 | 12 | -3.8% |
| 22 | Oracle International Corporation | 74 | 16 | 25 | 24 | 9 | -4.0% |
| 23 | Nvidia Corporation | 71 | 9 | 20 | 27 | 15 | +35.0% |
| 24 | Nokia Technologies Oy | 64 | 8 | 27 | 18 | 11 | -33.3% |
| 25 | Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy | 61 | 15 | 22 | 16 | 8 | -27.3% |