Where does China Telecom Corporation Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), China Telecom Corporation Limited ranks #11,601 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 China Telecom Corporation Limited hold?

China Telecom Corporation Limited holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is China Telecom Corporation Limited's Innovation Score?

China Telecom Corporation Limited has an Innovation Score of 50.9 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does China Telecom Corporation Limited focus on?

China Telecom Corporation Limited's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 20 patents, ranking #775 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is China Telecom Corporation Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

China Telecom Corporation Limited's recent grant velocity is +80% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for China Telecom Corporation Limited's patents?

China Telecom Corporation Limited's patents average 14.8 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 China Telecom Corporation Limited 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 Foreign Corporation

China Telecom Corporation Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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, China ranks #11,601 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 9 technology areas.

#11,601
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (50.9/100): 14.8
avg claims per patent: +80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11601 · Foreign Corporation #11,601 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,601/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Calmer Holding
CPC-NARROW H04W · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Calmer Holding Company, LLC (±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.

How China’s 50.9 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 11.4 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (39%) Breadth 10.6 pts (21%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Lunella Biotech · near

51
China Telecom · this assignee

51
Universite Pierre… · near

51
Good Sportsman… · near

51
Toray Advanced… · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows China's Innovation Score is 50.9/100 (top 12% 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 China?

Each dot is one of China’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). China’s own 14.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where China's grants concentrate

China Telecom Corporation Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 76.9% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, China sits between Calmer Holding Company, LLC and Cardiac Assist Holdings, LLC.

China's three-year grant acceleration

China Telecom Corporation Limited shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Calmer Holding

26
Carboncure

26
Catarc Automotive…

26
China Internation…

26
Cnex Labs

26
CPC Taiwan

26
Captioncall

26
Cardiac Assist Ho…

26
China Telecom ◀

26

What this shows China holds 26 patents at rank #11,591, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near China

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,591 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for China, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), China ranks #775 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Universite Pierre Et Marie Curie (Paris 6) 51 Lunella Biotech, Inc. 51 Good Sportsman Marketing, LLC 51 Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc. 51

China's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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China Telecom Corporation Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	3.8%
2017	3	11.5%
2018	1	3.8%
2023	1	3.8%
2024	8	30.8%
2025partial year	12	46.2%

Which technologies does China Telecom Corporation Limited patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 20

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 10

H04B - Transmission 8

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 4

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 3

H04J - Multiplex Communication 2

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

China Telecom Corporation Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

China Telecom Corporation Limited's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 76.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #11,601 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare China Telecom Corporation Limited against Calmer Holding Company, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.9/100 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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