Where does British Telecommunications public limited company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), British Telecommunications public limited company ranks #695 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is British Telecommunications public limited company's Innovation Score?

British Telecommunications public limited company has an Innovation Score of 60.7 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%).

Is British Telecommunications public limited company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

British Telecommunications public limited company's recent grant velocity is +28% 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 British Telecommunications public limited company's patents?

British Telecommunications public limited company's patents average 13.3 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

British Telecommunications public limited company

Q: How many patents does British Telecommunications public limited company hold?

British Telecommunications public limited company holds 651 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 65 technology areas.

Q: What technology areas does British Telecommunications public limited company focus on?

British Telecommunications public limited company's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 394 patents. Grants appear in 65 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the British Telecommunications public limited 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 PatentsView assignee record - 651 granted patents across 65 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, British ranks #695 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 651 patents across 65 technology areas.

#695
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.7/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: +28%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R695 · Foreign Corporation #695 · 651 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 651 grants
TOP-DECILE #695/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH BYD
CPC-WIDE H04L · 65 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +28% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: BYD Company Limited (±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
DeepMind · near

61
British Telecommunic… · this assignee

61
Magna Closures · near

61
Stats · near

61
Getac Technology · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows British's Innovation Score is 60.7/100 (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 British's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, British Telecommunications public limited company received 337 grants versus 264 in 2015–2019 (+28% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 81 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 32. Lead class H04L accounts for 60.5% of the portfolio across 65 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO (#691) and Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (#699).

British's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, British Telecommunications public limited company moved from 233 to 185 grants (0.79x 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 #1,859. See the growth leaderboard.

Nederlandse Organ…

653
Hughes Network Sy…

652
Incyte

652
University of Sou…

652
BYD

651
Time Warner Cable…

651
British Telecommu… ◀

651
Huawei Device

649
Mitsui Chemicals

649

What this shows British holds 651 patents at rank #695, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near British

By rank, the assignees closest to #695 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Magna Closures Inc. 61 Stats LLC 61 Getac Technology Corporation 61 DeepMind Technologies Limited 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.3 here).

Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. 13.3 avg Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited 13.3 avg Avent, Inc. 13.3 avg BL Technologies, Inc. 13.3 avg

British's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 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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British Telecommunications public limited company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	47	7.2%
2016	32	4.9%
2017	53	8.1%
2018	51	7.8%
2019	81	12.4%
2020	76	11.7%
2021	76	11.7%
2022	76	11.7%
2023	54	8.3%
2024	55	8.4%
2025partial year	50	7.7%

Which technologies does British Telecommunications public limited company patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 394

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 197

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 169

H04B - Transmission 107

H04M - Telephonic Communication 85

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 46

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 45

H04J - Multiplex Communication 26

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 22

H04Q - Selecting 19

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 18

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 12

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 11

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 6

Top 15 of 65 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#695

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

60.7 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

British Telecommunications public limited company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

British Telecommunications public limited company's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 60.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #695 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare British Telecommunications public limited company against Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.7/100 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

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