Where does T-Mobile USA, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), T-Mobile USA, Inc. ranks #156 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 T-Mobile USA, Inc. hold?

T-Mobile USA, Inc. holds 2,513 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 93 technology areas.

What is T-Mobile USA, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

T-Mobile USA, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 71.5 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does T-Mobile USA, Inc. focus on?

T-Mobile USA, Inc.'s top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 1,852 patents, ranking #19 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 93 CPC subclasses total.

Is T-Mobile USA, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

T-Mobile USA, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +160% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for T-Mobile USA, Inc.'s patents?

T-Mobile USA, Inc.'s patents average 18.9 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 T-Mobile USA, 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

T-Mobile USA, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,513 granted patents across 93 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, T-mobile ranks #156 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,513 patents across 93 technology areas.

#156
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (71.5/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: +160%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R156 · US Corporation #156 · 2,513 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 2.5K grants
TOP-DECILE #156/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Advanced Micro Devices
CPC-WIDE H04W · 93 areas
INNOV-STRONG 71.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +160% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Advanced Micro Devices, 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 T-mobile’s 71.5 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 27.0 pts (38%) Velocity 8.1 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
SAP SE · near

72
Guangdong Oppo… · near

72
GM Global Technology… · near

72
T-Mobile USA · this assignee

72
NEC · near

71
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows T-mobile's Innovation Score is 71.5/100 (top 1% 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 T-mobile?

Each dot is one of T-mobile’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). T-mobile’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How T-mobile's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, T-Mobile USA, Inc. received 1,672 grants versus 643 in 2015–2019 (+160% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 385 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 52. Lead class H04W accounts for 73.7% of the portfolio across 93 subclasses. Volume neighbours: United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (#152) and Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (#160).

T-mobile's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, T-Mobile USA, Inc. moved from 871 to 1,062 grants (1.22x 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 #763. See the growth leaderboard.

United Services A…

2,549
Schaeffler & KG

2,548
Nichia

2,544
Advanced Micro De…

2,513
T-mobile USA ◀

2,513
Raytheon

2,501
The Board of Rege…

2,495
ABB Schweiz

2,472
Futurewei

2,455

What this shows T-Mobile holds 2,513 patents at rank #156, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near T-Mobile

By rank, the assignees closest to #156 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in T-Mobile's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for T-Mobile, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), T-Mobile ranks #19 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (72 here).

GM Global Technology Operations LLC 72 NEC Corporation 71 Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. 72 SAP SE 72

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.9 here).

Commvault Systems, Inc. 18.9 avg Proterra Ag, Inc. 18.9 avg NantOmics, LLC 18.9 avg Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co., Ltd. 18.9 avg

T-mobile's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

72 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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T-Mobile USA, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	52	2.1%
2016	64	2.5%
2017	127	5.1%
2018	139	5.5%
2019	261	10.4%
2020	300	11.9%
2021	310	12.3%
2022	361	14.4%
2023	385	15.3%
2024	316	12.6%
2025partial year	198	7.9%

Which technologies does T-Mobile USA, Inc. patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1,852

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1,372

H04M - Telephonic Communication 471

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 418

H04B - Transmission 209

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 174

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 114

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 84

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 68

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 54

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 46

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 41

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 36

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 27

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 21

Top 15 of 93 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

T-Mobile USA, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

T-Mobile USA, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 73.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #156 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare T-Mobile USA, Inc. against United Services Automobile Association (USAA), an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 71.5/100 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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