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USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

ADC Telecommunications (shanghai) Distribution Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 29 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ADC ranks #10,524 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 29 patents across 12 technology areas.

#10,524
of 50,000 US assignees by volume
Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.2/100)
20.4
avg claims per patent
-96%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10524 · Foreign Corporation #10,524 · 29 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-SMALL 29 grants
  • UPPER-Q #10,524/50,000
  • PHOTO-FINISH AAC Kaitai (Wuhan)
  • CPC-FOCUS G02B · 12 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 36.2/100
  • CLAIMS-DENSE 20.4 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DROP -96% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AAC Kaitai Technologies (wuhan) Co., Ltd (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around ADC

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows ADC Telecommunications (shanghai) Distribution Co., Ltd. stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-DENSE, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #10,524 of 50,000; Innovation Score 36.2/100 sits in the top 47% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is AAC Kaitai Technologies (wuhan) Co., Ltd (±0 grants).

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Portfolio overview

ADC Telecommunications (shanghai) Distribution Co., Ltd. has been granted 29 US utility patents between 2016 and 2021, placing ADC Telecommunications (shanghai) Distribution Co., Ltd. at #10,524 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 12 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 20.4 claims per patent with primary concentration in G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS). As a Foreign Corporation, ADC Telecommunications (shanghai) Distribution Co., Ltd. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, ADC sits between AAC Kaitai Technologies (wuhan) Co., Ltd (29 patents, rank #10,519) and Amcor Flexibles North America, Inc. (29 patents, rank #10,527) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 36.2/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 1 grants, compared with 28 in the 2015–2019 window, a -96% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. ADC Telecommunications (shanghai) Distribution Co., Ltd.'s 20.4 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 12 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Who files at ADC's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows ADC holds 29 patents at rank #10,523, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near ADC

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,523 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in ADC's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ADC, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

DMG MORI Seiki Co., Ltd. 36 Cala Health, Inc. 36 Caldwell Manufacturing Company North America, Llc 36 PCT International, Inc. 36

ADC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

36 Top 47% higher than 53% of 50,000 US assignees

0–10: 687 US assignees (1%). Below this entry. 10–20: 2,527 US assignees (5%). Below this entry. 20–30: 13,162 US assignees (26%). Below this entry. 30–40: 15,294 US assignees (31%). This entry sits in this band. 40–50: 11,491 US assignees (23%). Above this entry. 50–60: 5,058 US assignees (10%). Above this entry. 60–70: 1,537 US assignees (3%). Above this entry. 70–80: 234 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 80–90: 10 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 90–100: 0 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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ADC Telecommunications (shanghai) Distribution Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2016 3 10.3%
2017 7 24.1%
2018 16 55.2%
2019 2 6.9%
2021 1 3.4%

Which technologies does ADC Telecommunications (shanghai) Distribution Co., Ltd. patent most?

Top 12 of 12 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#10,524

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

36.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?
Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page
  • USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
  • Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
  • USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.