Where does TE Connectivity Nederland BV rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), TE Connectivity Nederland BV ranks #4,490 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 TE Connectivity Nederland BV hold?

TE Connectivity Nederland BV holds 79 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is TE Connectivity Nederland BV's Innovation Score?

TE Connectivity Nederland BV has an Innovation Score of 44.9 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is TE Connectivity Nederland BV's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

TE Connectivity Nederland BV's recent grant velocity is -69% 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 TE Connectivity Nederland BV's patents?

TE Connectivity Nederland BV's patents average 15.3 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 TE Connectivity Nederland BV 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

TE Connectivity Nederland BV

Q: What technology areas does TE Connectivity Nederland BV focus on?

TE Connectivity Nederland BV's top technology area is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors) with 41 patents. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 79 granted patents across 27 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: 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 #4,490 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 79 patents across 27 technology areas.

#4,490
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (44.9/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: -69%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4490 · Foreign Corporation #4,490 · 79 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 79 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,490/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Savant Systems
CPC-FOCUS H01R · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -69% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Savant Systems, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chegg · near

45
Empresa Brasileira… · near

45
OneEvent · near

45
Second Sight… · near

45
TE Connectivity… · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows TE's Innovation Score is 44.9/100 (top 24% 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.

Where TE's grants concentrate

TE Connectivity Nederland BV is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 51.9% of grants classified under H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, TE sits between SK Siltron Co., Ltd. and Thorlabs, Inc..

TE's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, TE Connectivity Nederland BV moved from 24 to 8 grants (0.33x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

SK Siltron

79
SK ie technology

79
Savant Systems

79
Shifamed Holdings

79
Tesla Motors

79
Thales Avionics

79
The University Co…

79
Thorlabs

79
TE Connectivity N… ◀

79

What this shows TE holds 79 patents at rank #4,490, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near TE

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,490 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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. 45 Chegg, Inc. 45 OneEvent Technologies, Inc. 45 Empresa Brasileira DE Pesquisa AGROPECUÁRIA—EMBRAPA 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.3 here).

Tonal Systems, Inc. 15.3 avg Dionex Corporation 15.3 avg Production Resource Group, L.L.C. 15.3 avg Fuzhou BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 15.3 avg

TE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% 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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TE Connectivity Nederland BV patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	11.4%
2016	11	13.9%
2017	12	15.2%
2018	12	15.2%
2019	14	17.7%
2020	6	7.6%
2021	4	5.1%
2022	1	1.3%
2023	5	6.3%
2024	2	2.5%
2025partial year	3	3.8%

Which technologies does TE Connectivity Nederland BV patent most?

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 41

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 17

H04B - Transmission 9

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 7

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 6

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

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 3

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 2

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

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

Top 15 of 27 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,490

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

44.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

TE Connectivity Nederland BV's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

TE Connectivity Nederland BV's lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 51.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
Ranked #4,490 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare TE Connectivity Nederland BV against SK Siltron Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.9/100 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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