Where does Telefónica, S.A rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Telefónica, S.A ranks #5,040 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 Telefónica, S.A hold?

Telefónica, S.A holds 69 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Telefónica, S.A's Innovation Score?

Telefónica, S.A has an Innovation Score of 38.8 out of 100 (top 40% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Telefónica, S.A focus on?

Telefónica, S.A's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 42 patents, ranking #747 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Telefónica, S.A's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Telefónica, S.A's recent grant velocity is -90% 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 Telefónica, S.A's patents?

Telefónica, S.A's patents average 13.2 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 Telefónica, S.A 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

Telefónica, S.A

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 69 granted patents across 17 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Telefónica ranks #5,040 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 69 patents across 17 technology areas.

#5,040
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 40%
by Innovation Score (38.8/100): 13.2
avg claims per patent: -90%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5040 · Foreign Corporation #5,040 · 69 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 69 grants
UPPER-Q #5,040/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH THE Asan Foundation
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -90% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: THE Asan Foundation (±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 Telefónica’s 38.8 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 14.7 pts (38%) Velocity 1.7 pts (4%) Breadth 14.6 pts (38%) Claim depth 7.9 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Easebon Services · near

39
United States… · near

39
Ketra · near

39
Telefónica · this assignee

39
Webroot · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Telefónica's Innovation Score is 38.8/100 (top 40% 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 Telefónica?

Each dot is one of Telefónica’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). Telefónica’s own 13.2 claims/patent is at or below the 13.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Telefónica's grants concentrate

Telefónica, S.A is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 60.9% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (19 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Telefónica sits between THE Asan Foundation and Universite DE Montreal.

Telefónica's three-year grant acceleration

Telefónica, S.A shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

THE Asan Foundati…

69
THE University OF…

69
Thyssenkrupp Pres…

69
Tornier

69
Thoratec

69
Turlen Holding

69
Turn 5

69
Universite DE Mon…

69
Telefónica ◀

69

What this shows Telefónica holds 69 patents at rank #5,044, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Telefónica

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,044 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Telefónica, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Telefónica ranks #747 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Ketra, Inc. 39 United States Endoscopy Group, Inc. 39 Easebon Services Limited 39 Webroot Inc. 39

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.2 here).

Mbda France 13.2 avg Varroc Lighting Systems, S.R.O. 13.2 avg Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. 13.2 avg Norma Germany GMBH 13.2 avg

Telefónica's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 40% higher than 60% 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.

View data table

Telefónica, S.A patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	14	20.3%
2016	15	21.7%
2017	19	27.5%
2018	10	14.5%
2019	4	5.8%
2020	1	1.4%
2021	3	4.3%
2022	1	1.4%
2023	1	1.4%
2025partial year	1	1.4%

Which technologies does Telefónica, S.A patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 42

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 31

H04B - Transmission 15

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 11

H04J - Multiplex Communication 11

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 5

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 4

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 3

H04Q - Selecting 3

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 3

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 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Telefónica, S.A's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Telefónica, S.A's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 60.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #5,040 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Telefónica, S.A against THE Asan Foundation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.8/100 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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