Where does Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne ranks #24,558 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne hold?

Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2021, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne's Innovation Score?

Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne has an Innovation Score of 26.5 out of 100 (top 80% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne focus on?

Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne's top technology area is H01Q (ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne's recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne's patents?

Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne's patents average 12.2 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 Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne 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

Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2021. 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: H01Q (ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Institut ranks #24,558 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 9 technology areas.

#24,558
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 80%
by Innovation Score (26.5/100): 12.2
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24558 · Foreign Corporation #24,558 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,558/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH INFIANA GERMANY & KG
CPC-NARROW H01Q · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 26.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Infiana Germany Gmbh & Co. KG (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
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27
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Institut's Innovation Score is 26.5/100 (top 80% 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.

Where Institut's grants concentrate

Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 36.4% of grants classified under H01Q (ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Institut sits between Infiana Germany Gmbh & Co. KG and Institute OF Zoology, Chinese Academy OF Sciences.

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What this shows Institut holds 11 patents at rank #24,521, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Institut

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,521 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01Q (Antennas)

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

Institut's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 Top 80% higher than 20% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	18.2%
2019	4	36.4%
2020	4	36.4%
2021	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Institut Mines Telecom/telecom Bretagne patent most?

H01Q - ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS 4

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 4

H04W - WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 2

H04B - TRANSMISSION 2

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS, LINES, OR OTHER DEVICES OF THE WAVEGUIDE TYPE 1

H05K - PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS 1

C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE 1

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 1

H03H - IMPEDANCE NETWORKS, e.g. RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,558

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

26.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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