Where does Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. ranks #5,535 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 Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. hold?

Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. holds 62 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 47.3 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. focus on?

Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd.'s top technology area is H01Q (Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials) with 37 patents, ranking #91 of 1,637 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +467% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd.'s patents?

Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd.'s patents average 14.8 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 Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. 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

Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 62 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: H01Q (Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nokia ranks #5,535 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 62 patents across 20 technology areas.

#5,535
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.3/100): 14.8
avg claims per patent: +467%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5535 · Foreign Corporation #5,535 · 62 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 62 grants
UPPER-Q #5,535/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Muffin Incorporated
CPC-FOCUS H01Q · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +467% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Muffin Incorporated (±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 Nokia’s 47.3 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 14.3 pts (30%) Velocity 8.3 pts (18%) Breadth 15.8 pts (33%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Accton Technology · near

47
Epizyme · near

47
Kuwait Institute… · near

47
Mitsubishi Engineeri… · near

47
Nokia Shanghai Bell · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nokia's Innovation Score is 47.3/100 (top 19% 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 Nokia?

Each dot is one of Nokia’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). Nokia’s own 14.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nokia's grants concentrate

Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 59.7% of grants classified under H01Q (Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (17 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2024. By volume, Nokia sits between Muffin Incorporated and Parallels IP Holdings GmbH.

Nokia's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. moved from 25 to 31 grants (1.24x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Muffin Incorporat…

62
Ningbo Semiconduc…

62
Nippon Suisan Kai…

62
Nantomics

62
Organo

62
Pacific Industrial

62
Perfectvision Man…

62
Parallels IP Hold…

62
Nokia Shanghai Be… ◀

62

What this shows Nokia holds 62 patents at rank #5,533, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nokia

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,533 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01Q (Antennas)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nokia, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01Q (Antennas), Nokia ranks #91 of 1,637 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Mitsubishi Engineering-Plastics Corporation 47 Accton Technology Corporation 47 Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research 47 Epizyme, Inc. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.8 here).

Conagra Foods RDM, Inc. 14.8 avg Daiki Co., Ltd. 14.8 avg Versitech Limited 14.8 avg Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated 14.8 avg

Nokia's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

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

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Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	4	6.5%
2019	5	8.1%
2020	9	14.5%
2021	11	17.7%
2022	17	27.4%
2023	11	17.7%
2024	3	4.8%
2025partial year	2	3.2%

Which technologies does Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. patent most?

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 37

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 12

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

H04B - Transmission 5

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 5

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 3

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 2

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 2

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 2

H04Q - Selecting 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

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 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd.'s lead technology class is H01Q (Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials), 59.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01Q
Ranked #5,535 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. against Muffin Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.3/100 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.

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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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