Where does TE Connectivity Services GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), TE Connectivity Services GMBH ranks #2,213 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 Services GMBH hold?

TE Connectivity Services GMBH holds 178 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 80 technology areas.

What is TE Connectivity Services GMBH's Innovation Score?

TE Connectivity Services GMBH has an Innovation Score of 61.3 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is TE Connectivity Services GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for TE Connectivity Services GMBH.

What does claim depth mean for TE Connectivity Services GMBH's patents?

TE Connectivity Services GMBH'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 TE Connectivity Services GMBH 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 Services GMBH

Q: What technology areas does TE Connectivity Services GMBH focus on?

TE Connectivity Services GMBH'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 133 patents. Grants appear in 80 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 178 granted patents across 80 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: 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 #2,213 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 178 patents across 80 technology areas.

#2,213
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.3/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2213 · Foreign Corporation #2,213 · 178 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 178 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,213/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Korea Research…
CPC-WIDE H01R · 80 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science (±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
TE Connectivity… · this assignee

61
The Cleveland… · near

61
Agency FOR Defense… · near

61
Monolithic 3D · near

61
Rakuten Symphony · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows TE's Innovation Score is 61.3/100 (top 3% 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.

How TE's grant cadence moved

Grant history spans 2020–2025. Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 86 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 1. Lead class H01R accounts for 74.7% of the portfolio across 80 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science (#2,209) and Upm-kymmene Corporation (#2,217).

TE's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, TE Connectivity Services GMBH moved from 86 to 90 grants (1.05x 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 #1,068. See the growth leaderboard.

Korea Research In…

178
Morgan Stanley Se…

178
Oxford Nanopore

178
Rockley Photonics

178
Texas Tech Univer…

178
Topcon Positionin…

178
Uacj

178
Upm-kymmene

178
TE Connectivity S… ◀

178

What this shows TE holds 178 patents at rank #2,213, 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 #2,213 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 (61 here).

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 61 Agency FOR Defense Development 61 Monolithic 3D Inc. 61 Rakuten Symphony, Inc. 61

Similar claim depth

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

Wake Forest University Health Sciences 18.9 avg Crown Equipment Corporation 18.9 avg Ambarella, Inc. 18.9 avg Beta AIR LLC 18.9 avg

TE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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TE Connectivity Services GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	14	7.9%
2021	72	40.4%
2022	86	48.3%
2023	3	1.7%
2024	1	0.6%
2025partial year	2	1.1%

Which technologies does TE Connectivity Services GMBH patent most?

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 133

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 33

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 17

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 10

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 10

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 7

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 5

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 4

B65C - Labelling OR Tagging Machines, Apparatus, OR Processes 4

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 3

Top 15 of 80 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,213

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.3 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 Services GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

TE Connectivity Services GMBH's lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 74.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
Ranked #2,213 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare TE Connectivity Services GMBH against Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.3/100 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

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