Patent Theme
Photonic Integration & Interconnects
The design and manufacturing of integrated circuits that combine optical and electronic components, particularly for high-speed data communication between processors and memory.
6,042 US filings from 975 companies since 2023 · 2023: 1,205 · 2024: 1,590 · 2025: 2,168 · 2026 YTD: 1,079
Optical Elements & SystemsLiquid Crystal & Optical ModulatorsPhotovoltaic / Photoconductive Devices
Top companies
Ranked by filings in this theme since 2023. 2026 is partial.
| # | Company | Since 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 YTD | YoY |
|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | 477 | 46 | 102 | 231 | 98 | +126.5% |
| 2 | INTEL CORPORATION | 284 | 51 | 84 | 114 | 35 | +35.7% |
| 3 | GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. | 223 | 66 | 61 | 62 | 34 | +1.6% |
| 4 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | 200 | 35 | 58 | 86 | 21 | +48.3% |
| 5 | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation | 155 | 42 | 66 | 40 | 7 | -39.4% |
| 6 | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. | 152 | 4 | 11 | 69 | 68 | +527.3% |
| 7 | Cisco Technology, Inc. | 115 | 30 | 34 | 33 | 18 | -2.9% |
| 8 | Celestial AI Inc. | 102 | 5 | 15 | 67 | 15 | +346.7% |
| 9 | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | 98 | · | · | 66 | 32 | — |
| 10 | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | 89 | 22 | 28 | 26 | 13 | -7.1% |
| 11 | Lightmatter, Inc. | 81 | 14 | 28 | 27 | 12 | -3.6% |
| 12 | PsiQuantum, Corp. | 80 | 17 | 19 | 32 | 12 | +68.4% |
| 13 | Ciena Corporation | 73 | 18 | 15 | 25 | 15 | +66.7% |
| 14 | ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC. | 59 | 15 | 23 | 11 | 10 | -52.2% |
| 15 | Marvell Asia Pte Ltd | 59 | 15 | 11 | 25 | 8 | +127.3% |
| 16 | FUJITSU OPTICAL COMPONENTS LIMITED | 55 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 4 | -11.1% |
| 17 | Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. | 53 | 9 | 17 | 18 | 9 | +5.9% |
| 18 | AvicenaTech Corp. | 52 | 14 | 19 | 18 | 1 | -5.3% |
| 19 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP | 50 | 10 | 16 | 19 | 5 | +18.8% |
| 20 | HISENSE BROADBAND MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. | 47 | 14 | 16 | 10 | 7 | -37.5% |
| 21 | Ayar Labs, Inc. | 46 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 6 | +8.3% |
| 22 | Apple Inc. | 43 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 7 | +7.1% |
| 23 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 43 | 3 | 14 | 16 | 10 | +14.3% |
| 24 | II-VI DELAWARE, INC. | 42 | 6 | 14 | 15 | 7 | +7.1% |
| 25 | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | 42 | 14 | 7 | 15 | 6 | +114.3% |