Inventor of the Year award

For 30 years, our annual Inventor of the Year award has recognized Ericsson researchers and engineers for their outstanding contributions to our growing patent portfolio. With more than 60,000 granted patents, our inventors have established Ericsson as a technology leader in the telecommunications industry. The value created by these patents allows us to keep investing in research to further shape the future of global connectivity. Meet this year’s winners.

Inventor of the Year award 2025 winners

Bold innovations fuel communication evolution and bring society closer together. At Ericsson, we strive to recognize our inventors’ hard work and contributions to both global standards and our patent portfolio. The Inventor of the Year award celebrates pioneers who go above and beyond. Watch the video to learn more about this year’s winners: David Castellanos, Andres Reial and Konstantinos Vandikas.

More about the winners

Inventor of the Year award 2024 winners

Watch the video to learn more about this year’s winners: Mattias Bergström, Qian Chen and Stefan Wager.

2023 Inventor of the year award winners

Watch the video to learn more about Helka-Liina Määttänen, Pradeepa Ramachandra and Andreas Nilsson.

2022 Inventor of the Year award winners

Watch the video to learn more about Siva Muruganathan, Frank Yong Yang, and the VISTA team.

2021 Inventor of the Year award winners

Watch the video to learn more about Sorour Falahati, Susana Fernandez and Shiwei Gao.

2020 Inventor of the Year award winners

Watch the video to learn more about Sebastian Faxér, Yufei Blankenship and Vesa Lehtovirta.

2018 Inventor of the Year award winners

Watch the video to learn more about Johan Rune, Mark Harrison and Icaro Leonardo Da Silva.

2017 Inventor of the Year award winners

Watch the video to learn more about Pål Frenger, Stefano Sorrentino and Johan Bergman.

2016 Inventor of the Year award winners

Watch the video to learn more about Erik Eriksson, Havish Koorapaty and Mattias Frenne.

2015 Inventor of the Year award winners

Watch the video to learn more about John Diachina, Karl Norrman and Magnus Stattin.

Daniel Larsson

Daniel Larsson

Award granted for work as Technical Coordinator for the Standardization Team in 3GPP RAN WG1 (2014)

Gunnar Mildh

Gunnar Mildh

Award granted for work on Radio Network Architecture and Radio Network Protocol (2014)

Panagiotis Saltsidis

Panagiotis Saltsidis

Award granted for his inventions relating to Packet Networks and Ethernet Services (2014)

Thorsten Lohmar

Thorsten Lohmar

Award granted for media delivery work with m-peg broadcast (2013)

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Award granted for work on smart network nodes (2013)

Rickard Sjöberg - 2013 Ericsson Inventor of the Year

Rickard Sjöberg

Award granted for video compression (2013)

Henning Wiemann

Henning Wiemann

Award granted for work in LTE and LTE-Advanced (2012)

Thomas Cheng

Thomas Cheng

Award granted for work around channel coding and receiver algorithms (2011)

Muhammad Kazmi

Muhammad Kazmi

Award granted for radio resource management algorithms (2010)

Robert Baldemair

Robert Baldemair

Award granted for air interface design (2010)

Jacob Österling

Jacob Österling

Award granted for work on Ericsson’s RBS 6000 (2010)

Mats Näslund

Mats Näslund

Award granted for work in network security in LTE, IMS and fixed-mobile convergence (2009)

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