Where does Futurewei Technologies, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Futurewei Technologies, Inc. ranks #160 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 Futurewei Technologies, Inc. hold?

Futurewei Technologies, Inc. holds 2,455 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 100 technology areas.

What is Futurewei Technologies, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Futurewei Technologies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 65.5 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Futurewei Technologies, Inc. focus on?

Futurewei Technologies, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 1,218 patents, ranking #39 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 100 CPC subclasses total.

Is Futurewei Technologies, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Futurewei Technologies, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -65% 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 Futurewei Technologies, Inc.'s patents?

Futurewei Technologies, Inc.'s patents average 20.6 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 Futurewei Technologies, 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 US Corporation

Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,455 granted patents across 100 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, Futurewei ranks #160 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,455 patents across 100 technology areas.

#160
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.5/100): 20.6
avg claims per patent: -65%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R160 · US Corporation #160 · 2,455 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 2.5K grants
TOP-DECILE #160/49,997
NEAR-PEER ABB Schweiz
CPC-WIDE H04L · 100 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -65% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ABB Schweiz AG (±17 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 Futurewei’s 65.5 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 27.0 pts (41%) Velocity 1.2 pts (2%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 12.4 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AT&T Mobility II · near

66
Cypress Semiconductor · near

66
Futurewei · this assignee

66
Yungu (Gu'an)… · near

66
Rolex · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Futurewei's Innovation Score is 65.5/100 (top 1% 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 Futurewei?

Each dot is one of Futurewei’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). Futurewei’s own 20.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Futurewei's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Futurewei Technologies, Inc. received 638 grants versus 1,805 in 2015–2019 (-65% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 422 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 38. Lead class H04L accounts for 49.6% of the portfolio across 100 subclasses. Volume neighbours: T-Mobile USA, Inc. (#156) and Siemens Healthcare Limited (#164).

Futurewei's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Futurewei Technologies, Inc. moved from 900 to 160 grants (0.18x 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 #3,122. See the growth leaderboard.

T-mobile USA

2,513
Raytheon

2,501
The Board of Rege…

2,495
ABB Schweiz

2,472
Futurewei ◀

2,455
Chengdu BOE Optoe…

2,399
Lenovo (Singapore…

2,375
ebay

2,351
Siemens Healthcare

2,329

What this shows Futurewei holds 2,455 patents at rank #160, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Futurewei

By rank, the assignees closest to #160 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Futurewei, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Futurewei ranks #39 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation 66 Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd. 66 Rolex SA 66 AT&T Mobility II LLC 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.6 here).

Nvidia Corporation 20.6 avg Macom Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. 20.6 avg MorphoTrust USA, LLC 20.6 avg Salk Institute for Biological Studies 20.6 avg

Futurewei's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% 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.

View data table

Futurewei Technologies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	335	13.6%
2016	345	14.1%
2017	349	14.2%
2018	354	14.4%
2019	422	17.2%
2020	335	13.6%
2021	143	5.8%
2022	75	3.1%
2023	47	1.9%
2024	38	1.5%
2025partial year	12	0.5%

Which technologies does Futurewei Technologies, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1,218

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 788

H04B - Transmission 522

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 443

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 177

H04J - Multiplex Communication 159

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 98

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 92

H04Q - Selecting 91

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 71

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 64

H04M - Telephonic Communication 61

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 53

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 53

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 40

Top 15 of 100 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

Futurewei Technologies, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Futurewei Technologies, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 49.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #160 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Futurewei Technologies, Inc. against T-Mobile USA, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.5/100 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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