Where does Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc. ranks #3,825 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 Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc. hold?

Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc. holds 95 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.3 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +558% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc.'s patents?

Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc.'s patents average 20.5 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc. focus on?

Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 85 patents. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Ribbon Communications Operating Company, 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 PatentsView assignee record - 95 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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, Ribbon ranks #3,825 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 95 patents across 10 technology areas.

#3,825
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.3/100): 20.5
avg claims per patent: +558%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3825 · US Corporation #3,825 · 95 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 95 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,825/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pioneer Surgical…
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +558% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pioneer Surgical Technology, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
TD Ameritrade IP · near

44
Traeger Pellet Grills · near

44
Luminex · near

44
Ribbon Communication… · this assignee

44
Verint Systems · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ribbon's Innovation Score is 44.3/100 (top 26% 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 Ribbon's grants concentrate

Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 89.5% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (21 grants) versus a trough of 12 in 2019. By volume, Ribbon sits between Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc. and Woodwelding AG.

Ribbon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc. moved from 52 to 39 grants (0.75x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Pioneer Surgical…

95
Polaris Wireless

95
RB Distribution

95
Raven Industries

95
S P C M

95
Shenzhen Skyworth…

95
Sanmina

95
Woodwelding

95
Ribbon Communicat… ◀

95

What this shows Ribbon holds 95 patents at rank #3,825, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ribbon

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,825 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Luminex Corporation 44 Verint Systems Inc. 44 TD Ameritrade IP Company, Inc. 44 Traeger Pellet Grills, LLC 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.5 here).

Rapidsos, Inc. 20.5 avg Hexagon Metrology, Inc. 20.5 avg BeiGene, Ltd. 20.5 avg Isco International, LLC 20.5 avg

Ribbon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	12	12.6%
2020	21	22.1%
2021	19	20.0%
2022	12	12.6%
2023	15	15.8%
2024	12	12.6%
2025partial year	4	4.2%

Which technologies does Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 85

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 24

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 19

H04M - Telephonic Communication 16

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 13

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 6

H04K - Secret COMMUNICATION; Jamming OF Communication 2

H04J - Multiplex Communication 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,825

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

44.3 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

Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 89.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #3,825 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc. against Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.3/100 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.

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

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