Where does The ADT Security Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The ADT Security Corporation ranks #3,384 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 The ADT Security Corporation hold?

The ADT Security Corporation holds 110 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is The ADT Security Corporation's Innovation Score?

The ADT Security Corporation has an Innovation Score of 67.8 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 The ADT Security Corporation focus on?

The ADT Security Corporation's top technology area is G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems) with 55 patents, ranking #29 of 2,091 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

Is The ADT Security Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The ADT Security Corporation's recent grant velocity is +1500% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for The ADT Security Corporation's patents?

The ADT Security Corporation's patents average 17.1 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 The ADT Security Corporation 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

The ADT Security Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 110 granted patents across 36 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: G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #3,384 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 110 patents across 36 technology areas.

#3,384
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.8/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: +1500%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3384 · US Corporation #3,384 · 110 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 110 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,384/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Op-hygiene IP
CPC-FOCUS G08B · 36 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +1500% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Op-hygiene IP GMBH (±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 The’s 67.8 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 16.3 pts (24%) Velocity 20.0 pts (29%) Breadth 21.2 pts (31%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gyrus Acmi · near

68
Analog Devices · near

68
The ADT Security · this assignee

68
Seagate Technology · near

68
Qingdao University… · near

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 67.8/100 (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 The?

Each dot is one of The’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). The’s own 17.1 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.

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

Where The's grants concentrate

The ADT Security Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (48 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, The sits between Op-hygiene IP GMBH and Arcam AB.

The's three-year grant acceleration

The ADT Security Corporation shows 72 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Op-hygiene IP

110
Safran Ceramics

110
Shanghai Micro Eq…

110
Sorrento Therapeu…

110
The Western Union

110
West Pharmaceutic…

110
The ADT Security ◀

110
8 Rivers Capital

109
Arcam AB

109

What this shows The holds 110 patents at rank #3,384, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,384 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G08B (Signalling OR Calling Systems)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for The, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G08B (Signalling OR Calling Systems), The ranks #29 of 2,091 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

Seagate Technology LLC 68 Analog Devices, Inc. 68 Gyrus Acmi, Inc. 68 Qingdao University OF Technology 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

Heptagon Micro Optics Pte. Ltd. 17.1 avg Feit Electric Company, Inc. 17.1 avg LM Wind Power A/S 17.1 avg Richtek Technology Corporation 17.1 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 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 · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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The ADT Security Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	5	4.5%
2020	4	3.6%
2021	4	3.6%
2022	2	1.8%
2023	22	20.0%
2024	48	43.6%
2025partial year	25	22.7%

Which technologies does The ADT Security Corporation patent most?

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 55

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 21

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 20

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 17

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 13

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 12

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 12

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 9

H04B - Transmission 6

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 4

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 3

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 2

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

H04M - Telephonic Communication 2

Top 15 of 36 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

The ADT Security Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The ADT Security Corporation's lead technology class is G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G08B
Ranked #3,384 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The ADT Security Corporation against Op-hygiene IP GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.8/100 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

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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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