Where does Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited ranks #5,493 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 Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited hold?

Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited holds 62 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2020, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited's Innovation Score?

Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited has an Innovation Score of 34.7 out of 100 (49th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited focus on?

Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited's top technology area is H04M (Telephonic Communication) with 61 patents, ranking #93 of 2,488 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

Is Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited's recent grant velocity is -68% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited's patents?

Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited's patents average 22.2 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 Afiniti Europe Technologies 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

Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 62 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2020. 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: H04M (Telephonic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Afiniti ranks #5,493 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 62 patents across 4 technology areas.

#5,493
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 49th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.7/100): 22.2
avg claims per patent: -68%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5493 · Foreign Corporation #5,493 · 62 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 62 grants
UPPER-Q #5,493/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Abbyy Production
CPC-NARROW H04M · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -68% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Abbyy Production 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 Afiniti’s 34.7 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 14.3 pts (41%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 7.1 pts (20%) Claim depth 13.3 pts (38%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Acadia Pharmaceuticals · near

35
Afiniti Europe · this assignee

35
Airgain · near

35
Ideastream Consumer… · near

35
Mojix · near

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Afiniti's Innovation Score is 34.7/100 (49th percentile 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 Afiniti?

Each dot is one of Afiniti’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). Afiniti’s own 22.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Afiniti's grants concentrate

Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 98.4% of grants classified under H04M (Telephonic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (22 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2017. By volume, Afiniti sits between Yangzhou University and Benchmade Knife Co., Inc..

Yangzhou Universi…

63
Zhengzhou Yunhai…

63
Abbyy Production

62
Atrium Medical

62
Altiostar Networks

62
Ascend Performanc…

62
August Home

62
Benchmade Knife

62
Afiniti Europe ◀

62

What this shows Afiniti holds 62 patents at rank #5,494, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Afiniti

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,494 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04M (Telephonic Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Afiniti, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04M (Telephonic Communication), Afiniti ranks #93 of 2,488 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Ideastream Consumer Products, LLC 35 Airgain, Inc. 35 Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. 35 Mojix, Inc. 35

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.2 here).

Egnyte, Inc. 22.2 avg Optasense Holdings Limited 22.2 avg Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. 22.2 avg Seven Networks, LLC 22.2 avg

Afiniti's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 49th percentile higher than 49% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	7	11.3%
2018	22	35.5%
2019	18	29.0%
2020	15	24.2%

Which technologies does Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited patent most?

H04M - Telephonic Communication 61

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 37

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 4

Top 4 of 4 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

Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited's lead technology class is H04M (Telephonic Communication), 98.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04M
Ranked #5,493 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited against Yangzhou University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.7/100 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

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