Where does Alcatel Lucent rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Alcatel Lucent ranks #184 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 hold?

Alcatel Lucent holds 2,140 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 105 technology areas.

What is Alcatel Lucent's Innovation Score?

Alcatel Lucent has an Innovation Score of 62.2 out of 100 (top 2% 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 focus on?

Alcatel Lucent's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 1,170 patents, ranking #44 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 105 CPC subclasses total.

Is Alcatel Lucent's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Alcatel Lucent's recent grant velocity is -91% 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's patents?

Alcatel Lucent's patents average 16.3 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 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

Alcatel Lucent

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,140 granted patents across 105 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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 ranks #184 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,140 patents across 105 technology areas.

#184
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.2/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: -91%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R184 · Foreign Corporation #184 · 2,140 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 2.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #184/49,997
NEAR-PEER Nokia Solutions AND…
CPC-WIDE H04L · 105 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -91% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nokia Solutions AND Networks OY (±9 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’s 62.2 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 26.5 pts (43%) Velocity 1.0 pts (2%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Airbus (S ) · near

62
Black & Decker · near

62
Alcatel Lucent · this assignee

62
US Synthetic · near

62
Commonwealth… · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Alcatel's Innovation Score is 62.2/100 (top 2% 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?

Each dot is one of Alcatel’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’s own 16.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Alcatel's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Alcatel Lucent received 175 grants versus 1,964 in 2015–2019 (-91% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 720 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 3. Lead class H04L accounts for 54.7% of the portfolio across 105 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Shin-etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (#180) and Walmart Apollo, LLC (#188).

Alcatel's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Alcatel Lucent moved from 286 to 41 grants (0.14x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #3,143. See the growth leaderboard.

Shin-etsu Chemical

2,184
Jaguar Land Rover

2,182
Rolls-royce

2,152
Nokia Solutions A…

2,149
Alcatel Lucent ◀

2,140
Shimadzu

2,128
Dolby Laboratorie…

2,118
Intuitive Surgica…

2,117
Walmart Apollo

2,112

What this shows Alcatel holds 2,140 patents at rank #184, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Alcatel

By rank, the assignees closest to #184 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Alcatel, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Alcatel ranks #44 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

US Synthetic Corporation 62 Black & Decker Inc. 62 Airbus (S.A.S.) 62 Commonwealth Scientific AND Industrial Research Organisation 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.3 here).

Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG 16.3 avg Giesecke & Devrient GMBH 16.3 avg Carl Zeiss AG 16.3 avg Avigilon Corporation 16.3 avg

Alcatel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Alcatel Lucent patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	720	33.6%
2016	566	26.4%
2017	347	16.2%
2018	179	8.4%
2019	152	7.1%
2020	76	3.6%
2021	58	2.7%
2022	28	1.3%
2023	10	0.5%
2024	3	0.1%
2025partial year	1	0.0%

Which technologies does Alcatel Lucent patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1,170

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 874

H04B - Transmission 370

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 242

H04J - Multiplex Communication 172

H04M - Telephonic Communication 172

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 107

H04Q - Selecting 82

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 71

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 60

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 55

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 31

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 28

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 26

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 23

Top 15 of 105 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's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Alcatel Lucent's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 54.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #184 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Alcatel Lucent against Shin-etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.2/100 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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