Where does TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd. ranks #19,221 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 TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd. hold?

TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd. holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 36.5 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd. focus on?

TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 7 patents, ranking #1,749 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd..

What does claim depth mean for TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd.'s patents?

TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd.'s patents average 15.2 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 TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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, TCL ranks #19,221 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 16 technology areas.

#19,221
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.5/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19221 · Foreign Corporation #19,221 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #19,221/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Taiyo Kagaku
CPC-FOCUS H04W · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Taiyo Kagaku Co., Ltd. (±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 TCL’s 36.5 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 9.6 pts (26%) Velocity 3.7 pts (10%) Breadth 14.1 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
TCL Communi Cati ON… · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows TCL's Innovation Score is 36.5/100 (top 46% 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 TCL?

Each dot is one of TCL’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). TCL’s own 15.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where TCL's grants concentrate

TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 46.7% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, TCL sits between Taiyo Kagaku Co., Ltd. and Techinsights Inc..

TCL's three-year grant acceleration

TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Taiyo Kagaku

15
Tarkett GDL

15
Tatung University

15
TBS Engineering

15
Tcms Transparent…

15
Tdk-lambda

15
Team IP Holdings

15
Techinsights

15
TCL Communi Cati… ◀

15

What this shows TCL holds 15 patents at rank #19,212, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near TCL

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,212 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

TCL's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	3	20.0%
2021	6	40.0%
2022	2	13.3%
2023	1	6.7%
2024	2	13.3%
2025partial year	1	6.7%

Which technologies does TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd. patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 7

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

H04M - Telephonic Communication 2

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 1

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 1

H04B - Transmission 1

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 1

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 1

Top 15 of 16 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

TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 46.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #19,221 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare TCL Communi Cati ON ( NINGBO) Co., Ltd. against Taiyo Kagaku Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.5/100 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

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.