Where does InterDigital Technology Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), InterDigital Technology Corporation ranks #1,063 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 InterDigital Technology Corporation hold?

InterDigital Technology Corporation holds 406 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is InterDigital Technology Corporation's Innovation Score?

InterDigital Technology Corporation has an Innovation Score of 48.9 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does InterDigital Technology Corporation focus on?

InterDigital Technology Corporation's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 360 patents, ranking #82 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

Is InterDigital Technology Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

InterDigital Technology Corporation's recent grant velocity is -78% 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 InterDigital Technology Corporation's patents?

InterDigital Technology Corporation's patents average 16.6 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 InterDigital Technology Corporation 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

InterDigital Technology Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 406 granted patents across 18 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, Interdigital ranks #1,063 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 406 patents across 18 technology areas.

#1,063
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.9/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: -78%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1063 · US Corporation #1,063 · 406 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 406 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,063/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AMS
CPC-FOCUS H04W · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -78% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AMS AG (±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 Interdigital’s 48.9 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 20.8 pts (43%) Velocity 3.2 pts (7%) Breadth 15.0 pts (31%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Building Materials… · near

49
InterDigital… · this assignee

49
Resonant · near

49
Sirius XM Radio · near

49
Array BioPharma · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Interdigital's Innovation Score is 48.9/100 (top 16% 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 Interdigital?

Each dot is one of Interdigital’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). Interdigital’s own 16.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Interdigital's grants concentrate

InterDigital Technology Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 88.7% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (84 grants) versus a trough of 9 in 2022. By volume, Interdigital sits between Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag and Twitter, Inc..

Interdigital's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, InterDigital Technology Corporation moved from 70 to 34 grants (0.49x 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 #2,727. See the growth leaderboard.

Electrolux Applia…

407
National Cheng Ku…

407
THE University OF…

407
AMS

406
Regal Beloit Amer…

406
University of Roc…

406
Interdigital Tech… ◀

406
Fox Factory

405
Twitter

405

What this shows InterDigital holds 406 patents at rank #1,063, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near InterDigital

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,063 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for InterDigital, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), InterDigital ranks #82 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Building Materials Investment Corporation 49 Resonant Inc. 49 Sirius XM Radio Inc. 49 Array BioPharma, Inc. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.6 here).

United States Postal Service 16.6 avg Alfa Laval Corporate AB 16.6 avg Thermo Finnigan LLC 16.6 avg Idemia France 16.6 avg

Interdigital's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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.

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InterDigital Technology Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	84	20.7%
2016	81	20.0%
2017	79	19.5%
2018	55	13.5%
2019	31	7.6%
2020	29	7.1%
2021	10	2.5%
2022	9	2.2%
2023	10	2.5%
2024	15	3.7%
2025partial year	3	0.7%

Which technologies does InterDigital Technology Corporation patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 360

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 283

H04B - Transmission 133

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 74

H04J - Multiplex Communication 46

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 18

H04M - Telephonic Communication 17

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 12

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 8

H04Q - Selecting 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

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

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 3

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 2

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 2

Top 15 of 18 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

InterDigital Technology Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

InterDigital Technology Corporation's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 88.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #1,063 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare InterDigital Technology Corporation against Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.9/100 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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