Where does Swisscom AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Swisscom AG ranks #3,164 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 Swisscom AG hold?

Swisscom AG holds 119 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Swisscom AG's Innovation Score?

Swisscom AG has an Innovation Score of 51.3 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 Swisscom AG focus on?

Swisscom AG's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 54 patents, ranking #347 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

Is Swisscom AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Swisscom AG's recent grant velocity is -15% 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 Swisscom AG's patents?

Swisscom AG's patents average 22.1 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 Swisscom AG 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

Swisscom AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 119 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, Swisscom ranks #3,164 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 119 patents across 25 technology areas.

#3,164
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.3/100): 22.1
avg claims per patent: -15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3164 · Foreign Corporation #3,164 · 119 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 119 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,164/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ottobock SE & Kgaa
CPC-FOCUS H04W · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa (±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 Swisscom’s 51.3 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 16.5 pts (32%) Velocity 3.8 pts (7%) Breadth 17.7 pts (35%) Claim depth 13.2 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Imperva · near

51
Kyushu Institute OF… · near

51
Oversec UAB · near

51
Swisscom · this assignee

51
Vektor Medical · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Swisscom's Innovation Score is 51.3/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Swisscom?

Each dot is one of Swisscom’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). Swisscom’s own 22.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Swisscom's grants concentrate

Swisscom AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 45.4% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (16 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2024. By volume, Swisscom sits between Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa and Wyse Technology L.L.C..

Swisscom's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Swisscom AG moved from 40 to 23 grants (0.57x 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 #2,506. See the growth leaderboard.

Ottobock SE & Kgaa

119
Rinnai

119
Rolls-royce High…

119
Suzhou Metabrain…

119
Telebrands

119
Titan Medical

119
Verizon Digital M…

119
Wyse Technology L…

119
Swisscom ◀

119

What this shows Swisscom holds 119 patents at rank #3,164, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Swisscom

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,164 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Swisscom, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Swisscom ranks #347 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Imperva, Inc. 51 Kyushu Institute OF Technology 51 Oversec, UAB 51 Vektor Medical, Inc. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.1 here).

Kyocera AVX Components Corporation 22.1 avg SCA Ipla Holdings Inc. 22.1 avg JenaValve Technology, Inc. 22.1 avg Ludwig Institute FOR Cancer Research Ltd 22.0 avg

Swisscom'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.

View data table

Swisscom AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	14	11.8%
2016	10	8.4%
2017	16	13.4%
2018	10	8.4%
2019	11	9.2%
2020	14	11.8%
2021	15	12.6%
2022	9	7.6%
2023	8	6.7%
2024	6	5.0%
2025partial year	6	5.0%

Which technologies does Swisscom AG patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 54

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 33

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 31

H04B - Transmission 25

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 20

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 13

H04M - Telephonic Communication 13

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 12

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 11

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 6

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 5

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 5

Top 15 of 25 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Swisscom AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Swisscom AG's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 45.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #3,164 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Swisscom AG against Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.3/100 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

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.