Where does Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) ranks #17 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 Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) hold?

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) holds 15,598 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 158 technology areas.

What is Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)'s Innovation Score?

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) has an Innovation Score of 76.2 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) focus on?

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)'s top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 10,282 patents, ranking #5 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 158 CPC subclasses total.

Is Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)'s recent grant velocity is -8% 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 Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)'s patents?

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)'s patents average 19.3 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 Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) 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

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15,598 granted patents across 158 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: H04W (Wireless Communication Networks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Telefonaktiebolaget ranks #17 of 49,997 US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15,598 patents across 158 technology areas.

#17
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (76.2/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: -8%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17 · Foreign Corporation #17 · 15,598 grants

GRANTS-MEGA · TOP-DECILE · CLEAR-GAP · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MEGA 16K grants
TOP-DECILE #17/49,997
CLEAR-GAP Micron Technology
CPC-WIDE H04W · 158 areas
INNOV-STRONG 76.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -8% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Micron Technology, Inc. (±398 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 Telefonaktiebolaget’s 76.2 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 33.4 pts (44%) Velocity 6.3 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Siemens Healthineers · near

76
Toyota Motor North… · near

76
T-Mobile Innovations · near

76
Telefonaktiebolaget… · this assignee

76
Marvell Asia PTE · near

76
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Telefonaktiebolaget's Innovation Score is 76.2/100 (top 1% 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 Telefonaktiebolaget?

Each dot is one of Telefonaktiebolaget’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). Telefonaktiebolaget’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Telefonaktiebolaget's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) received 6,922 grants versus 7,500 in 2015–2019 (-8% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 1,614 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 1,202. Lead class H04W accounts for 65.9% of the portfolio across 158 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Sony Group Corporation (#13) and General Electric Company (#21).

Telefonaktiebolaget's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) moved from 4,384 to 4,152 grants (0.95x 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 #1,326. See the growth leaderboard.

Sony Group

20,593
Amazon

20,125
Ford Global

18,527
BOE Technology Gr…

18,263
Telefonaktiebolag… ◀

15,598
Micron Technology

15,200
Mitsubishi Electr…

15,053
Hyundai Motor

15,033
General Electric

14,436

What this shows Telefonaktiebolaget holds 15,598 patents at rank #17, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Telefonaktiebolaget

By rank, the assignees closest to #17 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (76 here).

T-Mobile Innovations LLC 76 Toyota Motor North America, Inc. 76 Marvell Asia PTE Ltd 76 Siemens Healthineers AG 76

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.3 here).

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC 19.3 avg Ultrahaptics IP TWO Limited 19.3 avg Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC 19.3 avg S.V.V. Technology Innovations, Inc. 19.3 avg

Telefonaktiebolaget's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

76 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1,411	9.0%
2016	1,560	10.0%
2017	1,558	10.0%
2018	1,357	8.7%
2019	1,614	10.3%
2020	1,376	8.8%
2021	1,394	8.9%
2022	1,403	9.0%
2023	1,202	7.7%
2024	1,547	9.9%
2025partial year	1,176	7.5%

Which technologies does Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 10,282

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 8,543

H04B - Transmission 3,146

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,008

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 991

H04J - Multiplex Communication 679

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 648

H04M - Telephonic Communication 512

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 314

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 294

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 242

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 227

H03F - Amplifiers 198

H04Q - Selecting 163

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 156

Top 15 of 158 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

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)'s lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 65.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #17 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) against Sony Group Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 76.2/100 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.

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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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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