Where does Ericsson AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ericsson AB ranks #2,962 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 Ericsson AB hold?

Ericsson AB holds 128 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Ericsson AB's Innovation Score?

Ericsson AB has an Innovation Score of 44.3 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ericsson AB focus on?

Ericsson AB's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 96 patents, ranking #401 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ericsson AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ericsson AB's recent grant velocity is -71% 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 Ericsson AB's patents?

Ericsson AB's patents average 17.9 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 Ericsson AB 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

Ericsson AB

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 128 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Ericsson ranks #2,962 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 128 patents across 16 technology areas.

#2,962
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.3/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2962 · Foreign Corporation #2,962 · 128 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 128 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,962/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Automotive Research…
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Automotive Research & Testing Center (±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 Ericsson’s 44.3 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 16.8 pts (38%) Velocity 2.6 pts (6%) Breadth 14.1 pts (32%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arteris · near

44
Automatic Bar Controls · near

44
CytomX Therapeutics · near

44
Ericsson AB · this assignee

44
Zodiac Aerotechnics · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ericsson's Innovation Score is 44.3/100 (top 26% 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 Ericsson?

Each dot is one of Ericsson’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). Ericsson’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ericsson's grants concentrate

Ericsson AB is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (31 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Ericsson sits between Automotive Research & Testing Center and Hitachi Zosen Corporation.

Ericsson's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ericsson AB moved from 31 to 12 grants (0.39x 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 #2,901. See the growth leaderboard.

Automotive Resear…

128
Beijing Kuaimajia…

128
Cytec Industries

128
Discma

128
Electrocore

128
Evolution Enginee…

128
GAS Technology In…

128
Hitachi Zosen

128
Ericsson AB ◀

128

What this shows Ericsson holds 128 patents at rank #2,961, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ericsson

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,961 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ericsson, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Ericsson ranks #401 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Arteris, Inc. 44 CytomX Therapeutics, Inc. 44 Zodiac Aerotechnics 44 Automatic Bar Controls, Inc. 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.9 here).

Microvision, Inc. 17.9 avg Saint-gobain Performance Plastics Corporation 17.9 avg Chep Technology Pty Limited 17.9 avg Credo Technology Group Limited 17.9 avg

Ericsson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ericsson AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	9.4%
2016	26	20.3%
2017	31	24.2%
2018	16	12.5%
2019	14	10.9%
2020	12	9.4%
2021	5	3.9%
2022	6	4.7%
2023	4	3.1%
2024	2	1.6%

Which technologies does Ericsson AB patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 96

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 72

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 27

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 16

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 8

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 6

H04M - Telephonic Communication 6

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 3

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 3

B64F - Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide 3

H04H - Broadcast Communication 3

H04B - Transmission 3

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 2

H04Q - Selecting 2

H04J - Multiplex Communication 2

Top 15 of 16 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

Ericsson AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ericsson AB's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 75% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #2,962 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ericsson AB against Automotive Research & Testing Center, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.3/100 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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