Where does Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U. ranks #15,680 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 Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U. hold?

Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U. holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U.'s Innovation Score?

Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U. has an Innovation Score of 28.3 out of 100 (27th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U. focus on?

Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 17 patents, ranking #1,573 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U.'s recent grant velocity is -54% 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 Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U.'s patents?

Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U.'s patents average 12.3 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 Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U. 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

Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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, Telefonica ranks #15,680 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 9 technology areas.

#15,680
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 27th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.3/100): 12.3
avg claims per patent: -54%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15680 · Foreign Corporation #15,680 · 19 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,680/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tallano
CPC-NARROW H04L · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -54% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tallano Technologie (±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 Telefonica’s 28.3 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 10.3 pts (36%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.6 pts (37%) Claim depth 7.4 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Telefonica Digital… · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Telefonica's Innovation Score is 28.3/100 (27th percentile 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 Telefonica?

Each dot is one of Telefonica’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). Telefonica’s own 12.3 claims/patent is at or below the 14.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Telefonica's grants concentrate

Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 89.5% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Telefonica sits between Tallano Technologie and THE Royal College OF Surgeons IN Ireland.

Tallano

19
Tamr

19
Tau-pnu Medical

19
Techmah Medical

19
Tennessee Technol…

19
THE European Unio…

19
THE Middleby

19
THE Royal College…

19
Telefonica Digita… ◀

19

What this shows Telefonica holds 19 patents at rank #15,673, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Telefonica

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,673 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Telefonica's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 27th percentile higher than 27% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	10.5%
2016	2	10.5%
2017	4	21.1%
2018	4	21.1%
2019	1	5.3%
2020	5	26.3%
2021	1	5.3%

Which technologies does Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 17

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 7

H04Q - Selecting 2

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 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 89.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #15,680 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Telefonica Digital ESPAÑA, S.L.U. against Tallano Technologie, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.3/100 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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