Where does Spirent Communications PLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Spirent Communications PLC ranks #15,642 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 Spirent Communications PLC hold?

Spirent Communications PLC holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Spirent Communications PLC's Innovation Score?

Spirent Communications PLC has an Innovation Score of 53.6 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Spirent Communications PLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Spirent Communications PLC's recent grant velocity is +233% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Spirent Communications PLC's patents?

Spirent Communications PLC's patents average 20.1 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 Spirent Communications PLC 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

Spirent Communications PLC

Q: What technology areas does Spirent Communications PLC focus on?

Spirent Communications PLC's top technology area is 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) with 19 patents, ranking #311 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Spirent ranks #15,642 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 10 technology areas.

#15,642
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.6/100): 20.1
avg claims per patent: +233%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15642 · Foreign Corporation #15,642 · 19 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,642/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH South 8
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +233% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: South 8 Technologies, 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.

How Spirent’s 53.6 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 10.3 pts (19%) Velocity 20.0 pts (37%) Breadth 11.2 pts (21%) Claim depth 12.0 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Spirent Communications · this assignee

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Spirent's Innovation Score is 53.6/100 (top 9% 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 Spirent?

Each dot is one of Spirent’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). Spirent’s own 20.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Spirent's grants concentrate

Spirent Communications PLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under 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 Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Spirent sits between South 8 Technologies, Inc. and Stout Stuff, LLC.

Spirent's three-year grant acceleration

Spirent Communications PLC shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

South 8

19
Southern Motion

19
Sovaro Coolers

19
Spidercloud Wirel…

19
Stem

19
Stemcentrx

19
Stern Pinball

19
Stout Stuff

19
Spirent Communica… ◀

19

What this shows Spirent holds 19 patents at rank #15,652, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Spirent

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,652 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Spirent's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Spirent Communications PLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	5.3%
2018	2	10.5%
2022	5	26.3%
2023	3	15.8%
2024	2	10.5%
2025partial year	6	31.6%

Which technologies does Spirent Communications PLC patent most?

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 19

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 10

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 7

H04B - Transmission 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 1

G01W - Meteorology 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Spirent Communications PLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Spirent Communications PLC's lead technology class is 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 Arra), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #15,642 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Spirent Communications PLC against South 8 Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.6/100 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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