Where does Telenav, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Telenav, Inc. ranks #2,549 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 Telenav, Inc. hold?

Telenav, Inc. holds 153 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Telenav, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Telenav, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 49.6 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Telenav, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -57% 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 Telenav, Inc.'s patents?

Telenav, Inc.'s patents average 19.7 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 Telenav, 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

Telenav, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Telenav, Inc. focus on?

Telenav, Inc.'s top technology area is G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry) with 119 patents, ranking #31 of 1,814 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 153 granted patents across 29 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: G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Telenav ranks #2,549 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 153 patents across 29 technology areas.

#2,549
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.6/100): 19.7
avg claims per patent: -57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2549 · US Corporation #2,549 · 153 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 153 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,549/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Runway Blue
CPC-FOCUS G01C · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Runway Blue, LLC (±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 Telenav’s 49.6 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 17.4 pts (35%) Velocity 1.4 pts (3%) Breadth 19.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cohesity · near

50
Eisai R&D Management · near

50
Fleetwood Group · near

50
People Center · near

50
Telenav · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Telenav's Innovation Score is 49.6/100 (top 14% 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 Telenav?

Each dot is one of Telenav’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). Telenav’s own 19.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Telenav's grants concentrate

Telenav, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 77.8% of grants classified under G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (36 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Telenav sits between Runway Blue, LLC and Bombardier Transportation GmbH.

Telenav's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Telenav, Inc. moved from 49 to 10 grants (0.20x 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 #3,088. See the growth leaderboard.

Runway Blue

153
Safran Electrical…

153
Sensata

153
Thyssenkrupp Indu…

153
Universite Grenob…

153
UniversitÉ Paris…

153
Telenav ◀

153
Adeia Semiconduct…

152
Bombardier Transp…

152

What this shows Telenav holds 153 patents at rank #2,550, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Telenav

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,550 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01C (Measuring Distances)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Telenav, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01C (Measuring Distances), Telenav ranks #31 of 1,814 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Cohesity, Inc. 50 Eisai R&D Management Co., Ltd. 50 People Center, Inc. 50 Fleetwood Group, Inc. 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.7 here).

PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc. 19.7 avg nLIGHT, Inc. 19.7 avg Synamedia Limited 19.7 avg Strong Force TX Portfolio 2018, LLC 19.7 avg

Telenav's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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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Telenav, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	24	15.7%
2016	18	11.8%
2017	36	23.5%
2018	13	8.5%
2019	14	9.2%
2020	21	13.7%
2021	14	9.2%
2022	2	1.3%
2023	2	1.3%
2024	6	3.9%
2025partial year	3	2.0%

Which technologies does Telenav, Inc. patent most?

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 119

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 30

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 20

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 16

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 13

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 9

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 8

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 8

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 7

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 3

H04M - Telephonic Communication 2

Top 15 of 29 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

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

Telenav, Inc.'s lead technology class is G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry), 77.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01C
Ranked #2,549 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Telenav, Inc. against Runway Blue, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.6/100 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

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