Where does Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. ranks #2,189 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 Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. hold?

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. holds 179 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2022, spanning 40 technology areas.

What is Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.5 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. focus on?

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 92 patents, ranking #416 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 40 CPC subclasses total.

Is Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -98% 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 Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.'s patents?

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.'s patents average 19.2 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 Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. 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 US Corporation

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 179 granted patents across 40 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2022. 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, Alcatel-lucent ranks #2,189 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 179 patents across 40 technology areas.

#2,189
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.5/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: -98%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2189 · US Corporation #2,189 · 179 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 179 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,189/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ansaldo Energia…
CPC-WIDE H04L · 40 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -98% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG (±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 Alcatel-lucent’s 53.5 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 17.9 pts (33%) Velocity 1.7 pts (3%) Breadth 22.4 pts (42%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alcatel-Lucent USA · this assignee

53
Beijing Lenovo… · near

53
Clearsign Combustion · near

53
Paul Scherrer Institut · near

53
Rockspoon · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Alcatel-lucent's Innovation Score is 53.5/100 (top 9% 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 Alcatel-lucent?

Each dot is one of Alcatel-lucent’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). Alcatel-lucent’s own 19.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Alcatel-lucent's grants concentrate

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 51.4% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (111 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Alcatel-lucent sits between Samtec, Inc. and Doosan Infracore Co., Ltd..

Alcatel-lucent's three-year grant acceleration

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Samtec

180
Stmicroelectronic…

180
Sumitomo Seika Ch…

180
Ansaldo Energia S…

179
Bauer Hockey

179
Bosch Automotive…

179
Csmc Fab2

179
Doosan Infracore

179
Alcatel-lucent USA ◀

179

What this shows Alcatel-Lucent holds 179 patents at rank #2,190, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Alcatel-Lucent

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,190 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Alcatel-Lucent's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Alcatel-Lucent, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Alcatel-Lucent ranks #416 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd. 53 Clearsign Combustion Corporation 53 Paul Scherrer Institut 53 Rockspoon, Inc 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.2 here).

Intel Mobile Communications GmbH 19.2 avg Malikie Innovations Limited 19.2 avg Sony Corporation OF America 19.2 avg Dril-Quip, Inc. 19.2 avg

Alcatel-lucent's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2022

Grants by year

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

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Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	9	5.0%
2017	111	62.0%
2018	54	30.2%
2019	2	1.1%
2020	1	0.6%
2021	1	0.6%
2022	1	0.6%

Which technologies does Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 92

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 80

H04B - Transmission 36

H04M - Telephonic Communication 22

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 14

H04J - Multiplex Communication 14

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 13

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 8

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 6

H04Q - Selecting 6

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 5

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 4

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 4

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 4

H04H - Broadcast Communication 3

Top 15 of 40 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

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 51.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #2,189 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. against Samtec, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.5/100 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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