Where does Telecommunication Systems, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Telecommunication Systems, Inc. ranks #2,048 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 Telecommunication Systems, Inc. hold?

Telecommunication Systems, Inc. holds 194 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Telecommunication Systems, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Telecommunication Systems, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.0 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Telecommunication Systems, Inc. focus on?

Telecommunication Systems, Inc.'s top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 149 patents, ranking #153 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Telecommunication Systems, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Telecommunication Systems, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Telecommunication Systems, Inc.'s patents?

Telecommunication Systems, Inc.'s patents average 15.0 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 Telecommunication Systems, 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

Telecommunication Systems, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 194 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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, Telecommunication ranks #2,048 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 194 patents across 20 technology areas.

#2,048
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.0/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2048 · US Corporation #2,048 · 194 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 194 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,048/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Intertrust
CPC-FOCUS H04W · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Intertrust Technologies Corporation (±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 Telecommunication’s 43.0 Innovation Score adds up

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

Volume 18.2 pts (42%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 15.8 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Perrone Robotics · near

43
Ryse · near

43
Safran Power Units · near

43
Telecommunication… · this assignee

43
Nautilus · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Telecommunication's Innovation Score is 43.0/100 (top 29% 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 Telecommunication?

Each dot is one of Telecommunication’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). Telecommunication’s own 15.0 claims/patent is at or below the 17.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Telecommunication's grants concentrate

Telecommunication Systems, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 76.8% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (99 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Telecommunication sits between Intertrust Technologies Corporation and Afton Chemical Corporation.

Intertrust

194
Konami Digital En…

194
Proofpoint

194
Siemens Schweiz

194
Tongji University

194
Tivo

194
Trimble Navigation

194
Telecommunication… ◀

194
Afton Chemical

193

What this shows Telecommunication holds 194 patents at rank #2,048, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Telecommunication

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,048 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Telecommunication, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Telecommunication ranks #153 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Safran Power Units 43 Perrone Robotics, Inc. 43 Ryse Inc. 43 Nautilus, Inc. 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.0 here).

Southwest Research Institute 15.0 avg Emerson Electric Co. 15.0 avg Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation 15.0 avg Daon Holdings Limited 15.0 avg

Telecommunication's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Telecommunication Systems, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	60	30.9%
2016	99	51.0%
2017	30	15.5%
2018	3	1.5%
2019	1	0.5%
2020	1	0.5%

Which technologies does Telecommunication Systems, Inc. patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 149

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 98

H04M - Telephonic Communication 68

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 25

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 22

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 22

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 7

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 7

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

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 6

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

H04B - Transmission 3

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 3

H04J - Multiplex Communication 2

Top 15 of 20 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

Telecommunication Systems, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Telecommunication Systems, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 76.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #2,048 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Telecommunication Systems, Inc. against Intertrust Technologies Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.0/100 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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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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