Where does Infinera Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Infinera Corp. ranks #1,104 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 Infinera Corp. hold?

Infinera Corp. holds 386 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Infinera Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Infinera Corp. has an Innovation Score of 59.4 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 Infinera Corp. focus on?

Infinera Corp.'s top technology area is H04B (Transmission) with 236 patents, ranking #58 of 3,909 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

Is Infinera Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Infinera Corp.'s recent grant velocity is -28% 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 Infinera Corp.'s patents?

Infinera Corp.'s patents average 17.8 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 Infinera Corp. 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

Infinera Corp.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 386 granted patents across 29 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: H04B (Transmission).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Infinera ranks #1,104 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 386 patents across 29 technology areas.

#1,104
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.4/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -28%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1104 · US Corporation #1,104 · 386 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 386 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,104/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH PPC Broadband
CPC-FOCUS H04B · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -28% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: PPC Broadband, 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 Infinera’s 59.4 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 20.6 pts (35%) Velocity 9.1 pts (15%) Breadth 19.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nouryon Chemicals… · near

59
SMS group · near

59
Exxonmobil Research… · near

59
Infinera · this assignee

59
Office National… · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Infinera's Innovation Score is 59.4/100 (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 Infinera?

Each dot is one of Infinera’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). Infinera’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Infinera's grants concentrate

Infinera Corp. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 61.1% of grants classified under H04B (Transmission). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (46 grants) versus a trough of 20 in 2020. By volume, Infinera sits between Japan Science and Technology Agency and Power Integrations, Inc..

Infinera's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Infinera Corp. moved from 78 to 106 grants (1.36x 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 #565. See the growth leaderboard.

Japan Science and…

388
Valeo Systemes Th…

388
Auris Health

387
Contemporary Ampe…

387
PPC Broadband

386
Infinera ◀

386
JNC

385
Kobelco Construct…

384
Power Integrations

384

What this shows Infinera holds 386 patents at rank #1,104, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Infinera

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,104 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04B (Transmission)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Infinera, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04B (Transmission), Infinera ranks #58 of 3,909 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company 59 Office National D'etudes ET DE Recherches AÉROSPATIALES 59 SMS group GmbH 59 Nouryon Chemicals International B.V. 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.8 here).

Vivint LLC 17.8 avg Cambridge Enterprise Limited 17.8 avg GAS Technology Institute 17.8 avg The University of Bristol 17.8 avg

Infinera's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 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

Infinera Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	45	11.7%
2016	40	10.4%
2017	46	11.9%
2018	40	10.4%
2019	35	9.1%
2020	20	5.2%
2021	23	6.0%
2022	45	11.7%
2023	32	8.3%
2024	29	7.5%
2025partial year	31	8.0%

Which technologies does Infinera Corp. patent most?

H04B - Transmission 236

H04J - Multiplex Communication 200

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 149

H04Q - Selecting 82

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 54

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 31

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 30

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 26

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 22

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 10

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 8

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 4

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 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

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 2

Top 15 of 29 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Infinera Corp.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Infinera Corp.'s lead technology class is H04B (Transmission), 61.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04B
Ranked #1,104 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Infinera Corp. against Japan Science and Technology Agency, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.4/100 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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