Where does Mitel Networks Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mitel Networks Corporation ranks #2,693 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 Mitel Networks Corporation hold?

Mitel Networks Corporation holds 144 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Mitel Networks Corporation's Innovation Score?

Mitel Networks Corporation has an Innovation Score of 48.0 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Mitel Networks Corporation focus on?

Mitel Networks Corporation's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 88 patents, ranking #428 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is Mitel Networks Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mitel Networks Corporation's recent grant velocity is -26% 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 Mitel Networks Corporation's patents?

Mitel Networks Corporation's patents average 16.9 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 Mitel Networks 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 Foreign Corporation

Mitel Networks Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 144 granted patents across 21 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, Mitel ranks #2,693 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 144 patents across 21 technology areas.

#2,693
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.0/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: -26%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2693 · Foreign Corporation #2,693 · 144 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 144 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,693/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Harley-Davidson Motor
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -26% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Harley-Davidson Motor Company, 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 Mitel’s 48.0 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 17.2 pts (36%) Velocity 4.5 pts (9%) Breadth 16.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hitachi Koki · near

48
Leica Instruments… · near

48
Mitel Networks · this assignee

48
The University of… · near

48
Zynga · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mitel's Innovation Score is 48.0/100 (top 17% 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 Mitel?

Each dot is one of Mitel’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). Mitel’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Mitel's grants concentrate

Mitel Networks Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 61.1% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (23 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2024. By volume, Mitel sits between Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc. and Qualcomm Technologies Inc..

Mitel's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Mitel Networks Corporation moved from 46 to 31 grants (0.67x 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 #2,233. See the growth leaderboard.

Harley-davidson M…

144
Korea Aerospace R…

144
Kodak Alaris

144
Melexis

144
Nbcuniversal Media

144
Nidec Tosok

144
Pilkington Group

144
Qualcomm

144
Mitel Networks ◀

144

What this shows Mitel holds 144 patents at rank #2,693, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mitel

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,693 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mitel, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Mitel ranks #428 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd. 48 Zynga Inc. 48 Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd 48 The University of Western Australia 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.9 here).

PDF Solutions, Inc. 16.9 avg Technische UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN 16.9 avg Christie Digital Systems USA, Inc. 16.9 avg Bombardier Inc. 16.9 avg

Mitel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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

Mitel Networks Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	7.6%
2016	12	8.3%
2017	13	9.0%
2018	23	16.0%
2019	19	13.2%
2020	13	9.0%
2021	14	9.7%
2022	9	6.3%
2023	14	9.7%
2024	8	5.6%
2025partial year	8	5.6%

Which technologies does Mitel Networks Corporation patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 88

H04M - Telephonic Communication 74

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 45

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 29

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 27

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 19

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 14

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 5

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 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 3

H04B - Transmission 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 2

H04Q - Selecting 1

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

Top 15 of 21 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

Mitel Networks Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mitel Networks Corporation's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 61.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #2,693 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mitel Networks Corporation against Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.0/100 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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