Where does Motorola Solutions, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Motorola Solutions, Inc. ranks #277 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 Motorola Solutions, Inc. hold?

Motorola Solutions, Inc. holds 1,555 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 117 technology areas.

What is Motorola Solutions, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Motorola Solutions, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 65.1 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Motorola Solutions, Inc. focus on?

Motorola Solutions, Inc.'s top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 682 patents, ranking #46 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 117 CPC subclasses total.

Is Motorola Solutions, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Motorola Solutions, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -8% 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 Motorola Solutions, Inc.'s patents?

Motorola Solutions, Inc.'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 Motorola Solutions, Inc. 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

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,555 granted patents across 117 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, Motorola ranks #277 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,555 patents across 117 technology areas.

#277
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.1/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: -8%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R277 · US Corporation #277 · 1,555 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.6K grants
TOP-DECILE #277/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bose
CPC-WIDE H04W · 117 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -8% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bose Corporation (±2 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 Motorola’s 65.1 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 25.4 pts (39%) Velocity 4.6 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Shure Acquisition… · near

65
Motorola Solutions · this assignee

65
Hologic · near

65
ResMed · near

65
Southwest Jiaotong… · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Motorola's Innovation Score is 65.1/100 (top 1% 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 Motorola?

Each dot is one of Motorola’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). Motorola’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Motorola's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Motorola Solutions, Inc. received 705 grants versus 765 in 2015–2019 (-8% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 195 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 100. Lead class H04W accounts for 43.9% of the portfolio across 117 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC (#273) and The General Hospital Corporation (#281).

Motorola's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Motorola Solutions, Inc. moved from 525 to 365 grants (0.69x 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 #2,167. See the growth leaderboard.

Meta Platforms

1,569
Acushnet

1,567
Colgate-palmolive

1,565
Goodrich

1,557
Motorola Solutions ◀

1,555
Bose

1,553
Toray Industries

1,543
Palantir

1,534
The General Hospi…

1,529

What this shows Motorola holds 1,555 patents at rank #277, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Motorola

By rank, the assignees closest to #277 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Motorola, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Motorola ranks #46 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc. 65 Hologic, Inc. 65 ResMed Corp. 65 Southwest Jiaotong University 65

Similar claim depth

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

University OF Connecticut 16.9 avg Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd. 16.9 avg Purem GmbH 16.9 avg Shengyi Technology Co., Ltd. 16.9 avg

Motorola's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 1% higher than 99% 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

Motorola Solutions, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	146	9.4%
2016	180	11.6%
2017	134	8.6%
2018	120	7.7%
2019	185	11.9%
2020	195	12.5%
2021	145	9.3%
2022	150	9.6%
2023	100	6.4%
2024	115	7.4%
2025partial year	85	5.5%

Which technologies does Motorola Solutions, Inc. patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 682

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 435

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 412

H04M - Telephonic Communication 198

H04B - Transmission 197

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 175

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 156

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 149

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 140

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 114

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 79

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 76

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 71

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 54

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 45

Top 15 of 117 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

Motorola Solutions, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Motorola Solutions, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 43.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #277 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Motorola Solutions, Inc. against Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.1/100 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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