Where does Pantech Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pantech Corporation ranks #1,863 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 Pantech Corporation hold?

Pantech Corporation holds 216 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Pantech Corporation's Innovation Score?

Pantech Corporation has an Innovation Score of 50.7 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Pantech Corporation focus on?

Pantech Corporation's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 141 patents. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Pantech Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pantech Corporation's recent grant velocity is -61% 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 Pantech Corporation's patents?

Pantech Corporation's patents average 14.2 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 Pantech 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

Pantech Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 216 granted patents across 20 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, Pantech ranks #1,863 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 216 patents across 20 technology areas.

#1,863
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (50.7/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: -61%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1863 · Foreign Corporation #1,863 · 216 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 216 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,863/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AT&S Austria &…
CPC-FOCUS H04W · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -61% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Home Depot Product… · near

51
Nippon Chemical… · near

51
Pantech · this assignee

51
Paramount BED · near

51
SMK · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pantech's Innovation Score is 50.7/100 (top 12% 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.

Where Pantech's grants concentrate

Pantech Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 65.3% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (67 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2019. By volume, Pantech sits between Xi'an Jiaotong University and Saab AB.

Pantech's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Pantech Corporation moved from 29 to 34 grants (1.17x 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 #831. See the growth leaderboard.

Xi'an Jiaotong Un…

217
Zhejiang Dahua Te…

217
AT&S Austria & Sy…

216
Egalax_empia Tech…

216
Pantech ◀

216
Chicony

215
Ge-hitachi Nuclea…

215
Hulu

215
Saab AB

215

What this shows Pantech holds 216 patents at rank #1,863, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pantech

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,863 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Pantech, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

SMK Corporation 51 Home Depot Product Authority, LLC 51 Paramount BED Co., Ltd. 51 Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

Bloom Energy Corporation 14.2 avg AMS AG 14.2 avg Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. 14.2 avg Texas Instruments Deutschland GMBH 14.2 avg

Pantech's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% 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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Pantech Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	67	31.0%
2016	52	24.1%
2017	18	8.3%
2018	8	3.7%
2019	5	2.3%
2020	13	6.0%
2021	11	5.1%
2022	11	5.1%
2023	15	6.9%
2024	8	3.7%
2025partial year	8	3.7%

Which technologies does Pantech Corporation patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 141

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 109

H04B - Transmission 51

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 45

H04M - Telephonic Communication 30

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 24

H04J - Multiplex Communication 22

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 9

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 8

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

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 2

H03G - Control OF Amplification 2

Top 15 of 20 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,863

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Pantech Corporation's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 65.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #1,863 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pantech Corporation against Xi'an Jiaotong University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.7/100 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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