Where does Sprint Spectrum LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sprint Spectrum LLC ranks #376 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 Sprint Spectrum LLC hold?

Sprint Spectrum LLC holds 1,166 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Sprint Spectrum LLC's Innovation Score?

Sprint Spectrum LLC has an Innovation Score of 56.1 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sprint Spectrum LLC focus on?

Sprint Spectrum LLC's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 1,087 patents, ranking #33 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sprint Spectrum LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sprint Spectrum LLC's recent grant velocity is -62% 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 Sprint Spectrum LLC's patents?

Sprint Spectrum LLC's patents average 17.7 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 Sprint Spectrum LLC 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 US Corporation

Sprint Spectrum LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,166 granted patents across 25 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, Sprint ranks #376 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,166 patents across 25 technology areas.

#376
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.1/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: -62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R376 · US Corporation #376 · 1,166 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.2K grants
TOP-DECILE #376/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Syngenta Participati…
CPC-FOCUS H04W · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Syngenta Participations AG (±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 Sprint’s 56.1 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 24.4 pts (43%) Velocity 3.4 pts (6%) Breadth 17.7 pts (32%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hangzhou Hikvision… · near

56
University of… · near

56
Arkema · near

56
Petal Cloud Technology · near

56
Sprint Spectrum · this assignee

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sprint's Innovation Score is 56.1/100 (top 6% 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 Sprint?

Each dot is one of Sprint’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). Sprint’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sprint's grants concentrate

Sprint Spectrum LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 93.2% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (205 grants) versus a trough of 26 in 2024. By volume, Sprint sits between Smith & Nephew, Inc. and Analog Devices, Inc..

Sprint's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sprint Spectrum LLC moved from 282 to 145 grants (0.51x 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 #2,662. See the growth leaderboard.

Smith & Nephew

1,172
Quanta Computer

1,171
Volvo Truck

1,171
Syngenta Particip…

1,167
Sprint Spectrum ◀

1,166
Dai Nippon Printi…

1,164
Disco

1,157
Borgwarner

1,156
Analog Devices

1,151

What this shows Sprint holds 1,166 patents at rank #376, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sprint

By rank, the assignees closest to #376 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sprint, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Sprint ranks #33 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Arkema Inc. 56 Petal Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. 56 Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. 56 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation 17.7 avg Sprint Communications Company, L.P. 17.7 avg Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. 17.7 avg Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd. 17.7 avg

Sprint's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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

Sprint Spectrum LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	192	16.5%
2016	205	17.6%
2017	167	14.3%
2018	170	14.6%
2019	108	9.3%
2020	103	8.8%
2021	71	6.1%
2022	61	5.2%
2023	58	5.0%
2024	26	2.2%
2025partial year	5	0.4%

Which technologies does Sprint Spectrum LLC patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1,087

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 454

H04B - Transmission 227

H04M - Telephonic Communication 43

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 40

H04J - Multiplex Communication 36

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 13

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 7

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 7

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 5

H04H - Broadcast Communication 4

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 3

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

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

Top 15 of 25 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

Sprint Spectrum LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sprint Spectrum LLC's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 93.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #376 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sprint Spectrum LLC against Smith & Nephew, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.1/100 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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