Where does Amdocs Development Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Amdocs Development Limited ranks #1,218 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 Amdocs Development Limited hold?

Amdocs Development Limited holds 349 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Amdocs Development Limited's Innovation Score?

Amdocs Development Limited has an Innovation Score of 50.1 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Amdocs Development Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Amdocs Development Limited's recent grant velocity is +9% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Amdocs Development Limited's patents?

Amdocs Development Limited's patents average 13.9 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 Amdocs Development 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

Amdocs Development Limited

Q: What technology areas does Amdocs Development Limited focus on?

Amdocs Development Limited's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 187 patents. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 349 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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, Amdocs ranks #1,218 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 349 patents across 20 technology areas.

#1,218
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (50.1/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: +9%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1218 · Foreign Corporation #1,218 · 349 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 349 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,218/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Deutsche Telekom
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +9% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Deutsche Telekom 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amdocs Development · this assignee

50
AMO Groningen B V · near

50
Datalogic USA · near

50
Indiana Mills &… · near

50
Universal Entertainm… · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Amdocs's Innovation Score is 50.1/100 (top 14% 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.

Where Amdocs's grants concentrate

Amdocs Development Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 53.6% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (63 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2016. By volume, Amdocs sits between Ii-vi Delaware, Inc. and Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd..

Amdocs's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Amdocs Development Limited moved from 120 to 103 grants (0.86x 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 #1,634. See the growth leaderboard.

Ii-vi Delaware

350
Jeol

350
JX Nippon Mining…

350
Riso Kagaku

350
Deutsche Telekom

349
Emerson Electric

349
Razer (Asia-pacif…

349
Amdocs Development ◀

349
Mimaki Engineering

348

What this shows Amdocs holds 349 patents at rank #1,218, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Amdocs

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,218 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Universal Entertainment Corporation 50 AMO Groningen B.V. 50 Datalogic USA, Inc. 50 Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc. 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.9 here).

Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG 13.9 avg Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited 13.9 avg Heraeus Quarzglas GMBH & Co. KG 13.9 avg Hangzhou Great Star Tools Co., Ltd. 13.9 avg

Amdocs's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Amdocs Development Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	8	2.3%
2017	63	18.1%
2018	43	12.3%
2019	47	13.5%
2020	41	11.7%
2021	32	9.2%
2022	47	13.5%
2023	28	8.0%
2024	28	8.0%
2025partial year	12	3.4%

Which technologies does Amdocs Development Limited patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 187

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 185

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 108

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 70

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 48

H04M - Telephonic Communication 30

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 13

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 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 3

H04B - Transmission 2

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

Top 15 of 20 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,218

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Amdocs Development Limited's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 53.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #1,218 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Amdocs Development Limited against Ii-vi Delaware, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.1/100 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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