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TE Connectivity Co. Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 670 granted patents across 127 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2023. 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, TE ranks #669 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 670 patents across 127 technology areas.

#669
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.0/100)
19.0
avg claims per patent
-56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R669 · Foreign Corporation #669 · 670 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MID 670 grants
  • TOP-DECILE #669/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH General Electric…
  • CPC-WIDE H01R · 127 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 59.0/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 19.0 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DROP -56% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: General Electric Technology GMBH (±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 TE’s 59.0 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around TE

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows TE's Innovation Score is 59.0/100 (top 4% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for TE?

Each dot is one of TE’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). TE’s own 19.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

TE vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 668669670671672673674 121416182022 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent KCI Licensing, Inc. - 673, 20.5KCI LicensingNational Taiwan University - 671, 14.98National Taiwan U…Trane International Inc. - 671, 16.05Trane Internation…General Electric Technology GMBH - 670, 13.68General Electric…ATI Technologies ULC - 669, 19.97ATI ULCBAE Systems PLC - 669, 16.41BAE SystemsKuraray Co., Ltd. - 669, 13.24KurarayKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology - 669, 17.14King Abdullah Uni…TE Connectivity Co. Ltd. - 670, 18.98TE Connectivity
TE vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

How TE's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, TE Connectivity Co. Ltd. received 205 grants versus 465 in 2015–2019 (-56% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 170 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 1. Lead class H01R accounts for 68.5% of the portfolio across 127 subclasses. Volume neighbours: KCI Licensing, Inc. (#665) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (#673).

TE's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, TE Connectivity Co. Ltd. moved from 366 to 9 grants (0.03x 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 #3,260. See the growth leaderboard.

Who files at TE's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows TE holds 670 patents at rank #669, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near TE

By rank, the assignees closest to #669 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for TE, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections), TE ranks #8 of 2,265 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

PepsiCo, Inc. 59 AVL List GMBH 59 Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute OF Science AND Technology 59 DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.0 here).

Tyco Fire & Security GMBH 19.0 avg Cornell University 19.0 avg Laitram, L.L.C. 19.0 avg Analogic Corporation 19.0 avg

TE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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TE Connectivity Co. Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2017 142 21.2%
2018 153 22.8%
2019 170 25.4%
2020 138 20.6%
2021 58 8.7%
2022 8 1.2%
2023 1 0.1%

Which technologies does TE Connectivity Co. Ltd. patent most?

Top 15 of 127 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

TE Connectivity Co. Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • TE Connectivity Co. Ltd.'s lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 68.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
  • Ranked #669 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare TE Connectivity Co. Ltd. against KCI Licensing, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 59.0/100 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

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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

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.