Where does Anritsu Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Anritsu Company ranks #1,479 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 Anritsu Company hold?

Anritsu Company holds 280 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 51 technology areas.

What is Anritsu Company's Innovation Score?

Anritsu Company has an Innovation Score of 60.4 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Anritsu Company focus on?

Anritsu Company's top technology area is H04B (Transmission) with 111 patents. Grants appear in 51 CPC subclasses total.

Is Anritsu Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Anritsu Company's recent grant velocity is -3% 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 Anritsu Company's patents?

Anritsu Company's patents average 11.5 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 Anritsu Company 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

Anritsu Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 280 granted patents across 51 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: H04B (Transmission).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Anritsu ranks #1,479 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 280 patents across 51 technology areas.

#1,479
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.4/100): 11.5
avg claims per patent: -3%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1479 · US Corporation #1,479 · 280 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 280 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,479/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AeroVironment
CPC-WIDE H04B · 51 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -3% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AeroVironment, Inc. (±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
Anritsu · this assignee

60
Climate · near

60
NAN YA Plastics · near

60
Universiteit Gent · near

60
Institute OF… · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Anritsu's Innovation Score is 60.4/100 (top 3% 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.

How Anritsu's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Anritsu Company received 127 grants versus 131 in 2015–2019 (-3% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 42 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 15. Lead class H04B accounts for 39.6% of the portfolio across 51 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Shandong University (#1,475) and Nova Chemicals (International) S.A. (#1,483).

Anritsu's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Anritsu Company moved from 68 to 92 grants (1.35x 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 #577. See the growth leaderboard.

Shandong Universi…

281
Sram

281
TC1

281
Aerovironment

280
Board OF Regents…

280
Danfoss A/S

280
Government of the…

280
Nova Chemicals (I…

280
Anritsu ◀

280

What this shows Anritsu holds 280 patents at rank #1,479, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Anritsu

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,479 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04B (Transmission)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Climate LLC 60 Universiteit Gent 60 NAN YA Plastics Corporation 60 Institute OF Microelectronics OF THE Chinese Academy OF Sciences 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.5 here).

Inventec Appliances (Pudong) Corporation 11.5 avg Rockspoon, Inc 11.5 avg Fujimi Incorporated 11.5 avg Shibaura Mechatronics Corporation 11.5 avg

Anritsu's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Anritsu Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	24	8.6%
2016	22	7.9%
2017	29	10.4%
2018	23	8.2%
2019	33	11.8%
2020	20	7.1%
2021	15	5.4%
2022	42	15.0%
2023	31	11.1%
2024	19	6.8%
2025partial year	22	7.9%

Which technologies does Anritsu Company patent most?

H04B - Transmission 111

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 76

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 75

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 68

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 29

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 20

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 12

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 11

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 9

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 8

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 7

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 6

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 6

H03K - Pulse Technique 5

Top 15 of 51 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,479

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

60.4 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

Anritsu Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Anritsu Company's lead technology class is H04B (Transmission), 39.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04B
Ranked #1,479 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Anritsu Company against Shandong University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.4/100 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

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