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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ranks #11 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 Technologies Co., Ltd. hold?

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. holds 23,942 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 216 technology areas.

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

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 77.0 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 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. focus on?

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 11,697 patents, ranking #3 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 216 CPC subclasses total.

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

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +81% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.'s patents average 17.4 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 Technologies 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 Technologies Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23,942 granted patents across 216 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, Huawei ranks #11 of 49,997 US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23,942 patents across 216 technology areas.

#11
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (77.0/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: +81%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11 · Foreign Corporation #11 · 23,942 grants

GRANTS-MEGA · TOP-DECILE · CLEAR-GAP · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MEGA 24K grants
TOP-DECILE #11/49,997
CLEAR-GAP Google
CPC-BROAD H04L · 216 areas
INNOV-STRONG 77.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +81% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Google LLC (±348 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 77.0 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 34.8 pts (45%) Velocity 6.7 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Honor Device · near

77
TCL China Star… · near

77
Huawei · this assignee

77
Rivian IP Holdings · near

77
Beijing Baidu… · near

77
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Huawei's Innovation Score is 77.0/100 (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 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 17.4 claims/patent is at or below the 18.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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 Technologies Co., Ltd. received 13,901 grants versus 7,696 in 2015–2019 (+81% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 3,152 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 810. Lead class H04L accounts for 48.9% of the portfolio across 216 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Qualcomm Incorporated (#7) and Ford Global Technologies, LLC (#15).

Huawei's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. moved from 8,155 to 8,200 grants (1.01x 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 #1,161. See the growth leaderboard.

Qualcomm Incorpor…

30,354
Intel

27,498
Microsoft Technol…

24,392
Google

24,290
Huawei ◀

23,942
Toyota Jidosha

21,526
Sony Group

20,593
Amazon

20,125
Ford Global

18,527

What this shows Huawei holds 23,942 patents at rank #11, 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 #11 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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 H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Huawei ranks #3 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (77 here).

TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 77 Rivian IP Holdings, LLC 77 Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd. 77 Honor Device Co., Ltd. 77

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.4 here).

Snap-on Incorporated 17.4 avg Triad National Security, LLC 17.4 avg ABB Research Ltd. 17.4 avg Newracom, Inc. 17.4 avg

Huawei's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

77 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

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	810	3.4%
2016	1,220	5.1%
2017	1,493	6.2%
2018	1,719	7.2%
2019	2,454	10.2%
2020	2,833	11.8%
2021	2,868	12.0%
2022	2,909	12.2%
2023	2,139	8.9%
2024	3,152	13.2%
2025partial year	2,345	9.8%

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

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 11,697

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 10,885

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4,154

H04B - Transmission 3,555

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1,820

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 1,421

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1,077

H04J - Multiplex Communication 1,042

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 658

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 579

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 570

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 470

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 468

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 439

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 413

Top 15 of 216 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 Technologies Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 48.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #11 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. against Qualcomm Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 77.0/100 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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