Overall rank by patents
#239
of 49,997 tracked assignees
USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,742 granted patents across 75 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: H04W (Wireless Communication Networks).
The verdict
According to USPTO PatentsView, At&t ranks #239 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,742 patents across 75 technology areas.
USPTO PatentsView assignee plate
Corpus R239 · US Corporation #239 · 1,742 grants
GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL
Nearest grant-volume peer: Baker Hughes Holdings LLC (±4 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.
Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.
Qualcomm Incorporated · highest
85 score
Pure Storage · near
66 score
AT&T Mobility II · this assignee
66 score
Board OF Trustees… · near
66 score
Darwin Precisions · near
66 score
Futurewei · near
66 score
3D Lighting… · lowest
7 score
What this shows At&t's Innovation Score is 65.5/100 (top 1% 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.
Between 2020–2024, AT&T Mobility II LLC received 575 grants versus 1,129 in 2015–2019 (-49% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 241 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 58. Lead class H04W accounts for 74.7% of the portfolio across 75 subclasses. Volume neighbours: ZF Friedrichshafen AG (#235) and Merck Patent GmbH (#243).
From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, AT&T Mobility II LLC moved from 541 to 255 grants (0.47x 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 #2,761. See the growth leaderboard.
Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀
ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1,756 patents
Continental Automotive GMBH
1,748 patents
Signify Holding B.V.
1,748 patents
Baker Hughes Holdings LLC
1,746 patents
AT&T Mobility II LLC
1,742 patents
Airbus Operations SAS
1,734 patents
Northwestern University
1,734 patents
Globus Medical, Inc.
1,728 patents
Merck Patent GmbH
1,728 patents
What this shows AT&T holds 1,742 patents at rank #239, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.
By rank, the assignees closest to #239 in granted patent volume.
Other assignees with the most granted patents in AT&T's primary technology class.
Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for AT&T, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).
Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).
Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).
At&t's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee
Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)
66 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees
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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025
Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.
| Year | Patents Granted | Share of Period |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 228 | 13.1% |
| 2016 | 204 | 11.7% |
| 2017 | 235 | 13.5% |
| 2018 | 241 | 13.8% |
| 2019 | 221 | 12.7% |
| 2020 | 192 | 11.0% |
| 2021 | 128 | 7.3% |
| 2022 | 120 | 6.9% |
| 2023 | 77 | 4.4% |
| 2024 | 58 | 3.3% |
| 2025partial year | 38 | 2.2% |
Top 15 of 75 technology areas
Overall rank by patents
#239
of 49,997 tracked assignees
65.5 out of 100
What to do with this data
AT&T Mobility II LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.
Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.
Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.