Where does AT&T Mobility II LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), AT&T Mobility II LLC ranks #239 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 AT&T Mobility II LLC hold?

AT&T Mobility II LLC holds 1,742 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 75 technology areas.

What is AT&T Mobility II LLC's Innovation Score?

AT&T Mobility II LLC has an Innovation Score of 65.5 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does AT&T Mobility II LLC focus on?

AT&T Mobility II LLC's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 1,302 patents, ranking #27 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 75 CPC subclasses total.

Is AT&T Mobility II LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

AT&T Mobility II LLC's recent grant velocity is -49% 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 AT&T Mobility II LLC's patents?

AT&T Mobility II LLC's patents average 19.4 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 AT&T Mobility II LLC 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

AT&T Mobility II LLC

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).

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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.

#239
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.5/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: -49%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.7K grants
TOP-DECILE #239/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Baker Hughes Holdings
CPC-WIDE H04W · 75 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -49% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

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.

How At&t’s 65.5 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 25.8 pts (39%) Velocity 3.1 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Pure Storage · near

66
AT&T Mobility II · this assignee

66
Board OF Trustees… · near

66
Darwin Precisions · near

66
Futurewei · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for At&t?

Each dot is one of At&t’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). At&t’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How At&t's grant cadence moved

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).

At&t's three-year grant acceleration

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.

ZF Friedrichshafen

1,756
Continental Autom…

1,748
Signify Holding B…

1,748
Baker Hughes Hold…

1,746
AT&T Mobility II ◀

1,742
Airbus Operations…

1,734
Northwestern Univ…

1,734
Globus Medical

1,728
Merck Patent

1,728

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.

Companies ranked near AT&T

By rank, the assignees closest to #239 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in AT&T's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for AT&T, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), AT&T ranks #27 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University 66 Darwin Precisions Corporation 66 Pure Storage, Inc. 66 Futurewei Technologies, Inc. 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Universal City Studios LLC 19.4 avg Celgene Corporation 19.4 avg Afero, Inc. 19.4 avg Cardio Flow, Inc. 19.4 avg

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

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.

View data table

AT&T Mobility II LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
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%

Which technologies does AT&T Mobility II LLC patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1,302

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 813

H04M - Telephonic Communication 292

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 249

H04B - Transmission 200

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 191

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 136

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 94

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 53

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 37

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 36

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 30

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 28

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 28

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 28

Top 15 of 75 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

AT&T Mobility II LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

AT&T Mobility II LLC's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 74.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #239 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare AT&T Mobility II LLC against ZF Friedrichshafen AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.5/100 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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