Where does Tencent America LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tencent America LLC ranks #229 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 Tencent America LLC hold?

Tencent America LLC holds 1,774 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is Tencent America LLC's Innovation Score?

Tencent America LLC has an Innovation Score of 78.4 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 Tencent America LLC focus on?

Tencent America LLC's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 1,468 patents, ranking #23 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

Is Tencent America LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tencent America LLC's recent grant velocity is +4818% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Tencent America LLC's patents?

Tencent America LLC's patents average 18.5 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 Tencent America LLC 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

Tencent America LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,774 granted patents across 37 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tencent ranks #229 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,774 patents across 37 technology areas.

#229
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (78.4/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent: +4818%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R229 · US Corporation #229 · 1,774 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.8K grants
TOP-DECILE #229/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH NetApp
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 37 areas
INNOV-STRONG 78.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +4818% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: NetApp, Inc. (±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 Tencent’s 78.4 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 25.8 pts (33%) Velocity 20.0 pts (26%) Breadth 21.5 pts (27%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Charter Communicatio… · near

79
Dell Products · near

79
RTX · near

79
Tencent America · this assignee

78
Baker Hughes… · near

78
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tencent's Innovation Score is 78.4/100 (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 Tencent?

Each dot is one of Tencent’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). Tencent’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Tencent's grants concentrate

Tencent America LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 82.8% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (398 grants) versus a trough of 28 in 2019. By volume, Tencent sits between Safran Aircraft Engines and Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited.

Tencent's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Tencent America LLC moved from 298 to 1,107 grants (3.71x 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 #55. See the growth leaderboard.

Safran Aircraft E…

1,805
Citrix Systems

1,793
Wistron

1,775
Netapp

1,774
Tencent America ◀

1,774
Novartis

1,768
Autonetworks

1,766
Arris Enterprises

1,761
Sumitomo Chemical

1,758

What this shows Tencent holds 1,774 patents at rank #229, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tencent

By rank, the assignees closest to #229 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Tencent, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Tencent ranks #23 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (78 here).

RTX Corporation 79 Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC 78 Dell Products L.P. 79 Charter Communications Operating, LLC 79

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.5 here).

Seagate Technology LLC 18.5 avg OneTrust, LLC 18.5 avg CGG Services SAS 18.5 avg Rapid7, Inc. 18.5 avg

Tencent's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

78 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

Tencent America LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	28	1.6%
2020	77	4.3%
2021	193	10.9%
2022	330	18.6%
2023	379	21.4%
2024	398	22.4%
2025partial year	369	20.8%

Which technologies does Tencent America LLC patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1,468

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 212

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 190

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 186

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 155

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 59

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 52

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 31

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 26

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 16

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 13

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 12

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 10

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 8

Top 15 of 37 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Tencent America LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tencent America LLC's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 82.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #229 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tencent America LLC against Safran Aircraft Engines, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 78.4/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.