Overall rank by patents
#4,546
of 49,997 tracked assignees
USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 77 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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 #4,546 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 77 patents across 13 technology areas.
USPTO PatentsView assignee plate
Corpus R4546 · US Corporation #4,546 · 77 grants
GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL
Nearest grant-volume peer: Arlington Industries, 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.
Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.
Qualcomm Incorporated · highest
85 score
Oatey · near
60 score
AT&T Technical… · this assignee
60 score
Southwire · near
60 score
Techtronic Power… · near
60 score
The University Of… · near
60 score
3D Lighting… · lowest
7 score
What this shows At&t's Innovation Score is 59.6/100 (top 4% 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.
AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 93.5% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (18 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, At&t sits between Watkins Manufacturing Corporation and Chep Technology Pty Limited.
AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc. shows 48 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.
Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀
Watkins Manufacturing Corporation
78 patents
Whelen Engineering Company, Inc.
78 patents
Yanshan University
78 patents
Arlington Industries, Inc.
77 patents
Augustine Biomedical + Design, LLC
77 patents
Bizerba SE & Co. KG
77 patents
Berlin Heart GmbH
77 patents
Chep Technology Pty Limited
77 patents
AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
77 patents
What this shows AT&T holds 77 patents at rank #4,546, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.
By rank, the assignees closest to #4,546 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 (60 here).
Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.7 here).
At&t's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee
Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)
60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 2019–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.
| Year | Patents Granted | Share of Period |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 1.3% |
| 2020 | 4 | 5.2% |
| 2021 | 10 | 13.0% |
| 2022 | 14 | 18.2% |
| 2023 | 18 | 23.4% |
| 2024 | 16 | 20.8% |
| 2025partial year | 14 | 18.2% |
Top 13 of 13 technology areas
Overall rank by patents
#4,546
of 49,997 tracked assignees
59.6 out of 100
What to do with this data
AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.'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.
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