Where does Felica Networks, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Felica Networks, Inc. ranks #5,359 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 Felica Networks, Inc. hold?

Felica Networks, Inc. holds 64 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Felica Networks, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Felica Networks, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 40.3 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Felica Networks, Inc. focus on?

Felica Networks, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 36 patents, ranking #865 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Felica Networks, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Felica Networks, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -38% 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 Felica Networks, Inc.'s patents?

Felica Networks, Inc.'s patents average 13.9 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 Felica Networks, Inc. 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

Felica Networks, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 64 granted patents across 16 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, Felica ranks #5,359 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 64 patents across 16 technology areas.

#5,359
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.3/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -38%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5359 · Foreign Corporation #5,359 · 64 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 64 grants
UPPER-Q #5,359/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Danco
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -38% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Danco, 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.

How Felica’s 40.3 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 14.4 pts (36%) Velocity 3.3 pts (8%) Breadth 14.1 pts (35%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Felica Networks · this assignee

40
Haikou Lili Investment · near

40
Hewlett-Packard… · near

40
Roadtec · near

40
Wintek · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Felica's Innovation Score is 40.3/100 (top 36% 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 Felica?

Each dot is one of Felica’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). Felica’s own 13.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Felica's grants concentrate

Felica Networks, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 56.3% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Felica sits between Detnet South Africa (PTY) Ltd and Haikou Lili Investment Co., Ltd..

Felica's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Felica Networks, Inc. moved from 22 to 11 grants (0.50x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Detnet South Afri…

64
Dowa Metaltech

64
Danco

64
Fast IP

64
Federal Signal

64
Ferro

64
Gecko Robotics

64
Haikou Lili Inves…

64
Felica Networks ◀

64

What this shows Felica holds 64 patents at rank #5,358, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Felica

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,358 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Felica, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Felica ranks #865 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Haikou Lili Investment Co., Ltd. 40 Hewlett-Packard Industrial Printing Ltd. 40 Wintek Corporation 40 Roadtec, Inc. 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.9 here).

The Eastern Company 13.9 avg Institut Polytechnique DE Bordeaux 13.9 avg Sport Maska Inc. 13.9 avg Liebherr-werk Nenzing GMBH 13.9 avg

Felica's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% 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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Felica Networks, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	12.5%
2016	8	12.5%
2017	10	15.6%
2018	4	6.3%
2019	9	14.1%
2020	9	14.1%
2021	4	6.3%
2022	6	9.4%
2023	3	4.7%
2024	2	3.1%
2025partial year	1	1.6%

Which technologies does Felica Networks, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 36

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 27

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 26

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 24

H04B - Transmission 21

H04M - Telephonic Communication 17

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 8

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 5

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

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 1

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 1

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

Felica Networks, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Felica Networks, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 56.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #5,359 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Felica Networks, Inc. against Detnet South Africa (PTY) Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.3/100 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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