Where does Orange rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Orange ranks #393 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 Orange hold?

Orange holds 1,134 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 75 technology areas.

What is Orange's Innovation Score?

Orange has an Innovation Score of 63.4 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Orange focus on?

Orange's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 656 patents, ranking #80 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 75 CPC subclasses total.

Is Orange's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Orange's recent grant velocity is +28% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Orange's patents?

Orange's patents average 12.8 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 Orange 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

Orange

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,134 granted patents across 75 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, Orange ranks #393 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,134 patents across 75 technology areas.

#393
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.4/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: +28%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R393 · Foreign Corporation #393 · 1,134 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #393/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kimberly-Clark…
CPC-WIDE H04L · 75 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +28% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. (±1 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 Orange’s 63.4 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 24.3 pts (38%) Velocity 6.4 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Janssen Pharmaceutic… · near

63
Raven Industries · near

63
Case Western… · near

63
Neste OYJ · near

63
Orange · this assignee

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Orange's Innovation Score is 63.4/100 (top 2% 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 Orange?

Each dot is one of Orange’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). Orange’s own 12.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Orange's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Orange received 583 grants versus 454 in 2015–2019 (+28% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 128 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 71. Lead class H04L accounts for 57.8% of the portfolio across 75 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha (#389) and Cree, Inc. (#397).

Orange's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Orange moved from 351 to 338 grants (0.96x 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 #1,285. See the growth leaderboard.

Aisin Seiki

1,137
Korea Institute O…

1,136
Kimberly-clark Wo…

1,135
Taiyo Yuden

1,135
Orange ◀

1,134
Molex

1,132
Toshiba Medical S…

1,132
Bytedance

1,130
Cree

1,127

What this shows Orange holds 1,134 patents at rank #393, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Orange

By rank, the assignees closest to #393 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Orange, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Orange ranks #80 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Case Western Reserve University 63 Neste OYJ 63 Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 63 Raven Industries, inc. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.8 here).

National Institute FOR Materials Science 12.8 avg Universite DE Nantes 12.8 avg Formlabs Inc. 12.8 avg Stabilus GmbH 12.8 avg

Orange's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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

Orange patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	75	6.6%
2016	71	6.3%
2017	103	9.1%
2018	99	8.7%
2019	106	9.3%
2020	125	11.0%
2021	120	10.6%
2022	128	11.3%
2023	82	7.2%
2024	128	11.3%
2025partial year	97	8.6%

Which technologies does Orange patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 656

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 410

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 212

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 166

H04B - Transmission 110

H04M - Telephonic Communication 101

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 60

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 55

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 32

H04J - Multiplex Communication 26

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 21

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 18

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 17

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 16

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 14

Top 15 of 75 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Orange's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Orange's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 57.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #393 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Orange against Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.4/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.