Where does Icom Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Icom Incorporated ranks #3,157 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 Icom Incorporated hold?

Icom Incorporated holds 119 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Icom Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Icom Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 45.0 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Icom Incorporated focus on?

Icom Incorporated's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 57 patents, ranking #593 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

Is Icom Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Icom Incorporated's recent grant velocity is -41% 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 Icom Incorporated's patents?

Icom Incorporated's patents average 7.7 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 Icom Incorporated 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

Icom Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 119 granted patents across 27 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, Icom ranks #3,157 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 119 patents across 27 technology areas.

#3,157
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.0/100): 7.7
avg claims per patent: -41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3157 · Foreign Corporation #3,157 · 119 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 119 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,157/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cardiovalve
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cardiovalve Ltd. (±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 Icom’s 45.0 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 16.5 pts (37%) Velocity 5.4 pts (12%) Breadth 18.4 pts (41%) Claim depth 4.6 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arbor Networks · near

45
Fairfield Industries… · near

45
Icom Incorporated · this assignee

45
Jiangsu Zhongheng… · near

45
PrimeWan · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Icom's Innovation Score is 45.0/100 (top 24% 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 Icom?

Each dot is one of Icom’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). Icom’s own 7.7 claims/patent is at or below the 11.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Icom's grants concentrate

Icom Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 47.9% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (20 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2021. By volume, Icom sits between Cardiovalve Ltd. and Rinnai Corporation.

Icom's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Icom Incorporated moved from 32 to 26 grants (0.81x 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 #1,797. See the growth leaderboard.

Cardiovalve

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119
Corning Optical C…

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119
Lifetime Brands

119
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119
Ottobock SE & Kgaa

119
Rinnai

119
Icom Incorporated ◀

119

What this shows Icom holds 119 patents at rank #3,157, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Icom

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,157 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Icom, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Icom ranks #593 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Arbor Networks, Inc. 45 Fairfield Industries Incorporated 45 Jiangsu Zhongheng PET Articles Joint-stock Co., Ltd. 45 PrimeWan Limited 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.7 here).

Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG 7.7 avg Daihen Corporation 7.8 avg Custom Molded Products, LLC 7.8 avg Bridgestone Europe NV/SA 7.7 avg

Icom's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% 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

Icom Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	16.8%
2016	8	6.7%
2017	14	11.8%
2018	18	15.1%
2019	14	11.8%
2020	14	11.8%
2021	4	3.4%
2022	13	10.9%
2023	7	5.9%
2024	6	5.0%
2025partial year	1	0.8%

Which technologies does Icom Incorporated patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 57

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 42

H04B - Transmission 32

H04M - Telephonic Communication 31

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 5

H03G - Control OF Amplification 4

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 4

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 4

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 3

H03C - Modulation 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 2

H03F - Amplifiers 2

H03D - Demodulation OR Transference OF Modulation From ONE Carrier TO Another 2

Top 15 of 27 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

Icom Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Icom Incorporated's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 47.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #3,157 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Icom Incorporated against Cardiovalve Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.0/100 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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