Where does Huawei Device Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Huawei Device Co., Ltd. ranks #698 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 Huawei Device Co., Ltd. hold?

Huawei Device Co., Ltd. holds 649 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 65 technology areas.

What is Huawei Device Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Huawei Device Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 59.5 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Huawei Device Co., Ltd. focus on?

Huawei Device Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 252 patents, ranking #110 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 65 CPC subclasses total.

Is Huawei Device Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Huawei Device Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -77% 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 Huawei Device Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Huawei Device Co., Ltd.'s patents average 14.9 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 Huawei Device Co., Ltd. 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

Huawei Device Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 649 granted patents across 65 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, Huawei ranks #698 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 649 patents across 65 technology areas.

#698
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.5/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: -77%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R698 · Foreign Corporation #698 · 649 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 649 grants
TOP-DECILE #698/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mitsui Chemicals
CPC-WIDE H04W · 65 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -77% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mitsui Chemicals, 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 Huawei’s 59.5 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 22.4 pts (38%) Velocity 3.2 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Beihang University · near

60
Beth Israel… · near

60
Cummins Emission… · near

60
Huawei Device · this assignee

60
Xiamen Tianma… · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Huawei's Innovation Score is 59.5/100 (top 4% 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 Huawei?

Each dot is one of Huawei’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). Huawei’s own 14.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Huawei's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Huawei Device Co., Ltd. received 120 grants versus 523 in 2015–2019 (-77% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 177 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 16. Lead class H04W accounts for 38.8% of the portfolio across 65 subclasses. Volume neighbours: University of Southern California (#694) and Goertek Inc. (#702).

Huawei's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Huawei Device Co., Ltd. moved from 115 to 55 grants (0.48x 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 #2,746. See the growth leaderboard.

University of Sou…

652
British Telecommu…

651
BYD

651
Time Warner Cable…

651
Mitsui Chemicals

649
Huawei Device ◀

649
Continental Autom…

648
City University O…

646
Goertek

646

What this shows Huawei holds 649 patents at rank #698, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Huawei

By rank, the assignees closest to #698 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Huawei, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Huawei ranks #110 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Cummins Emission Solutions Inc. 60 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. 60 Beihang University 60 Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.9 here).

Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG 14.9 avg China Academy OF Telecommunications Technology 14.9 avg MCP IP, LLC 14.9 avg Kodak Alaris, LLC 14.9 avg

Huawei's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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

Huawei Device Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	132	20.3%
2016	177	27.3%
2017	133	20.5%
2018	31	4.8%
2019	50	7.7%
2020	45	6.9%
2021	20	3.1%
2022	22	3.4%
2023	17	2.6%
2024	16	2.5%
2025partial year	6	0.9%

Which technologies does Huawei Device Co., Ltd. patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 252

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 214

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 209

H04M - Telephonic Communication 86

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 57

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 52

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 39

H04B - Transmission 34

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 23

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 21

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 16

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 14

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 13

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 13

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 12

Top 15 of 65 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

Huawei Device Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Huawei Device Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 38.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #698 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Huawei Device Co., Ltd. against University of Southern California, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.