Where does Deutsche Telekom AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Deutsche Telekom AG ranks #1,219 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 Deutsche Telekom AG hold?

Deutsche Telekom AG holds 349 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 43 technology areas.

What is Deutsche Telekom AG's Innovation Score?

Deutsche Telekom AG has an Innovation Score of 56.2 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Deutsche Telekom AG focus on?

Deutsche Telekom AG's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 222 patents, ranking #119 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 43 CPC subclasses total.

Is Deutsche Telekom AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Deutsche Telekom AG's recent grant velocity is -14% 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 Deutsche Telekom AG's patents?

Deutsche Telekom AG's patents average 13.1 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 Deutsche Telekom AG 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

Deutsche Telekom AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 349 granted patents across 43 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, Deutsche ranks #1,219 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 349 patents across 43 technology areas.

#1,219
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.2/100): 13.1
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1219 · Foreign Corporation #1,219 · 349 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 349 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,219/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Amdocs Development
CPC-WIDE H04W · 43 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Amdocs Development 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.

How Deutsche’s 56.2 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 20.2 pts (36%) Velocity 4.9 pts (9%) Breadth 23.2 pts (41%) Claim depth 7.8 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Deutsche Telekom · this assignee

56
Faurecia Interieur… · near

56
INSTITUCIÓ Catalana… · near

56
Kuka Deutschland · near

56
Tower Partners… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Deutsche's Innovation Score is 56.2/100 (top 6% 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 Deutsche?

Each dot is one of Deutsche’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). Deutsche’s own 13.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Deutsche's grants concentrate

Deutsche Telekom AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 43 CPC subclasses with 63.6% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (40 grants) versus a trough of 25 in 2022. By volume, Deutsche sits between Jeol Ltd. and SK On Co., Ltd..

Deutsche's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Deutsche Telekom AG moved from 111 to 82 grants (0.74x 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 #2,019. See the growth leaderboard.

Jeol

350
JX Nippon Mining…

350
Riso Kagaku

350
Amdocs Development

349
Emerson Electric

349
Razer (Asia-pacif…

349
Deutsche Telekom ◀

349
Mimaki Engineering

348
SK On

348

What this shows Deutsche holds 349 patents at rank #1,219, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Deutsche

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,219 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Deutsche, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Deutsche ranks #119 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Faurecia Interieur Industrie 56 Kuka Deutschland GmbH 56 Tower Partners Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 56 INSTITUCIÓ Catalana DE Recerca I Estudis Avancats 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.1 here).

Wacker Chemie AG 13.1 avg Peloton Interactive, Inc. 13.1 avg Semiconductor Manufacturing (Beijing) International Corporation 13.1 avg Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH 13.1 avg

Deutsche's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Deutsche Telekom AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	34	9.7%
2016	37	10.6%
2017	27	7.7%
2018	40	11.5%
2019	40	11.5%
2020	35	10.0%
2021	36	10.3%
2022	25	7.2%
2023	26	7.4%
2024	31	8.9%
2025partial year	18	5.2%

Which technologies does Deutsche Telekom AG patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 222

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 203

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 38

H04M - Telephonic Communication 27

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 21

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 20

H04B - Transmission 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 13

H04Q - Selecting 9

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 6

H04J - Multiplex Communication 5

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 4

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 4

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 4

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 4

Top 15 of 43 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

Deutsche Telekom AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Deutsche Telekom AG's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 63.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #1,219 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Deutsche Telekom AG against Jeol Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.2/100 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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