Where does Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. ranks #1,688 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 Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. hold?

Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. holds 244 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 62.4 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 Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. focus on?

Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 160 patents, ranking #144 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

Is Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +25% 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 Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.'s patents average 17.0 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 Foreign Corporation

Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Q: How is the Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) 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 PatentsView assignee record - 244 granted patents across 30 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, Spreadtrum ranks #1,688 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 244 patents across 30 technology areas.

#1,688
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.4/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: +25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1688 · Foreign Corporation #1,688 · 244 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 244 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,688/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beckman Coulter
CPC-FOCUS H04W · 30 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beckman Coulter, 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 Spreadtrum’s 62.4 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 19.0 pts (30%) Velocity 13.8 pts (22%) Breadth 19.4 pts (31%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Google Technology… · near

62
Otsuka Pharmaceutical · near

62
Spreadtrum Communica… · this assignee

62
Textron Systems · near

62
Canon U · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Spreadtrum's Innovation Score is 62.4/100 (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 Spreadtrum?

Each dot is one of Spreadtrum’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). Spreadtrum’s own 17.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Spreadtrum's grants concentrate

Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 65.6% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (44 grants) versus a trough of 9 in 2021. By volume, Spreadtrum sits between Beckman Coulter, Inc. and Anpec Electronics Corporation.

Spreadtrum's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. moved from 42 to 87 grants (2.07x 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 #195. See the growth leaderboard.

Beckman Coulter

244
Icahn School OF M…

244
LG Hausys

244
Prysmian S p A

244
Umicore & KG

244
United Arab Emira…

244
Walgreen

244
Spreadtrum Commun… ◀

244
Anpec

243

What this shows Spreadtrum holds 244 patents at rank #1,688, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Spreadtrum

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,688 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Spreadtrum, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Spreadtrum ranks #144 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 62 Google Technology Holdings LLC 62 Textron Systems Corporation 62 Canon U.S.A., Inc. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.0 here).

University of Notre Dame du Lac 17.0 avg Assa Abloy AB 17.0 avg RTC Industries, Inc. 17.0 avg Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC 17.0 avg

Spreadtrum's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 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.

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Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	4.5%
2016	28	11.5%
2017	22	9.0%
2018	15	6.1%
2019	15	6.1%
2020	18	7.4%
2021	9	3.7%
2022	23	9.4%
2023	20	8.2%
2024	44	18.0%
2025partial year	39	16.0%

Which technologies does Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 160

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 119

H04B - Transmission 42

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 22

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 17

H04M - Telephonic Communication 12

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 11

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 10

H04J - Multiplex Communication 8

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 5

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 4

H03K - Pulse Technique 4

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 3

H03F - Amplifiers 3

Top 15 of 30 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

Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 65.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #1,688 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. against Beckman Coulter, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.4/100 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.