Where does Afilias Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Afilias Limited ranks #14,436 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Afilias Limited hold?

Afilias Limited holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Afilias Limited's Innovation Score?

Afilias Limited has an Innovation Score of 45.4 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Afilias Limited focus on?

Afilias Limited's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 20 patents, ranking #1,367 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

Is Afilias Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Afilias Limited's recent grant velocity is +1800% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Afilias Limited's patents?

Afilias Limited's patents average 23.9 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Afilias Limited patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Afilias Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Afilias ranks #14,436 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 3 technology areas.

#14,436
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.4/100): 23.9
avg claims per patent: +1800%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14436 · Foreign Corporation #14,436 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,436/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Advanced Wireless…
CPC-NARROW H04L · 3 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +1800% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Advanced Wireless Innovations, LLC (±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.

How Afilias’s 45.4 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 10.5 pts (23%) Velocity 14.4 pts (32%) Breadth 6.1 pts (13%) Claim depth 14.3 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Afilias · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Afilias's Innovation Score is 45.4/100 (top 23% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Afilias?

Each dot is one of Afilias’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Afilias’s own 23.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Afilias vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Afilias's grants concentrate

Afilias Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Afilias sits between Advanced Wireless Innovations, LLC and Alfasigma S.P.A..

Afilias's three-year grant acceleration

Afilias Limited shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Advanced Wireless…

20
Aetna Group S P A

20
Affiris

20
AFI Licensing

20
AGT International

20
Airties Kablosuz…

20
AKG Acoustics

20
Alfasigma S P A

20
Afilias ◀

20

What this shows Afilias holds 20 patents at rank #14,423, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Afilias

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,423 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Afilias's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 23% higher than 77% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

Grants by year

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

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Afilias Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	5.0%
2020	2	10.0%
2021	4	20.0%
2022	10	50.0%
2023	3	15.0%

Which technologies does Afilias Limited patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 20

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Afilias Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Afilias Limited's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #14,436 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Afilias Limited against Advanced Wireless Innovations, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.4/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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.