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World IP Day 2026 — Recognized Innovator

Shlomo Rakib

  • Co-Founder & CTO
  • Cohere Technologies, Inc.

Recognized as the co-founder, CTO, and named inventor at Cohere Technologies, with over 50 patents across a career that has shaped how data moves through cable and wireless networks. At Cohere, his work on OTFS modulation is helping redefine how mobile operators use spectrum across 4G, 5G, and the path to 6G.

Certificate of Recognition

Top IP Innovator — Wireless Communications & Spectrum Technology · 2026

Cohere Patents (last 5 years)
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First Filing
2010
USPTO Art Unit Focus
2632 / 2631
Role
Co-Founder & CTO
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World IP Day Recognition Series · 2026

Cohere patents, last 5 years
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Filed in 2025 alone
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Recognition category
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The Recognition

Turning a math lecture into a new way to use wireless spectrum

On World IP Day 2026, InspireIP recognizes Shlomo Rakib, co-founder of Cohere Technologies, for his technical leadership in wireless communications.

The recognition is based on Cohere’s patent activity and public patent records where Shlomo is named as an inventor. His filings cover Orthogonal Time Frequency Space modulation, delay-Doppler channel modeling, and methods for implementing OTFS in wireless devices and surfaces, to name a few.

Shlomo has been named on more than 50 patents across his career. At Cohere, his work helped advance OTFS from a mathematical breakthrough into a wireless technology designed for high-performance connectivity in complex radio environments.

OTFS Modulation
Delay-Doppler Communications
Spectrum Multiplier
4G/5G/6G Networks
Non-Terrestrial Networks
Integrated Sensing & Communication
Patent Footprint

A portfolio shaped around a new way to model the wireless channel

2009–2012

Shlomo Rakib and mathematician Ronny Hadani co-found Cohere Technologies after meeting at a lecture on OTFS at the University of Texas at Austin. The company's first patent filings arrive in 2010, with Shlomo and Ronny named as co-inventors, covering methods of operating and implementing wireless OTFS communications systems.

2015–2020

The portfolio accelerates sharply, with 26 filings in 2020 and 25 in 2021. Cohere announces its Universal Spectrum Multiplier software and begins field trials with mobile operators including Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, and Telstra.

2021–2023

53 patent filings across three years. Cohere expands its IP into multi-user OTFS systems, non-terrestrial network applications, and integrated sensing and communication.

2024–2025

21 more filings across two years. Cohere wins the GLOMO Award at MWC 2026 for Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough, receives the Stevie Award for Technology Innovation of the Year, and joins the Linux Foundation's OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation for open-source AI-RAN innovation.

Wireless Communications & Spectrum Technology

A small-entity company filing like a much larger one

Cohere Technologies is classified by the USPTO as a Small Entity, yet its five-year filing volume sits well above what is typical for wireless technology companies of its size. Much of that activity is concentrated in the communications art units that protect modulation schemes, signal processing methods, and spectrum management systems.

Patents, last 5 years
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Peak year (2020)
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USPTO entity status
Small Entity
Art unit focus
2632 / 2631
"Leading an innovation program is harder than inventing on your own. It means choosing what to file, who to credit, and where to invest, over and over, for years. The leaders we recognize on World IP Day have done that consistently, and built something that compounds."

Sam Zellner

Founder, InspireIP · Inventor · Innovation Leader

About Cohere Technologies

Built in San Jose, reshaping wireless networks worldwide

Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cohere Technologies develops software that improves the spectral efficiency and performance of mobile wireless networks.

Its technology is built on Orthogonal Time Frequency Space, or OTFS, a modulation technique that models wireless channels in the delay-Doppler domain and helps networks use existing spectrum more efficiently.

Cohere’s Universal Spectrum Multiplier has been tested by major mobile operators including Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, and Telstra.

The company holds more than 100 patents and is developing technologies for non-terrestrial networks, integrated sensing and communication, and 6G-era waveforms.

In 2026, Cohere won the GLOMO Award at MWC Barcelona for Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough.

IP Day 2027

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