Where does Twilio Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Twilio Inc. ranks #1,360 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 Twilio Inc. hold?

Twilio Inc. holds 309 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Twilio Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Twilio Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.5 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Twilio Inc. focus on?

Twilio Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 248 patents, ranking #175 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

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

Twilio Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +48% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Twilio Inc.'s patents?

Twilio Inc.'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 Twilio 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

Twilio Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 309 granted patents across 13 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Twilio ranks #1,360 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 309 patents across 13 technology areas.

#1,360
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.5/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: +48%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1360 · US Corporation #1,360 · 309 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 309 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,360/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Advanced Bionics
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +48% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Advanced Bionics AG (±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 Twilio’s 54.5 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 19.8 pts (36%) Velocity 10.3 pts (19%) Breadth 12.7 pts (23%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arkray · near

54
Guangzhou Shiyuan… · near

54
JNC · near

54
Konecranes Global · near

54
Twilio · this assignee

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Twilio's Innovation Score is 54.5/100 (top 8% 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 Twilio?

Each dot is one of Twilio’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). Twilio’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Twilio's grants concentrate

Twilio Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 80.3% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (44 grants) versus a trough of 10 in 2015. By volume, Twilio sits between Advanced Bionics AG and Southwest Petroleum University.

Twilio's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Twilio Inc. moved from 69 to 107 grants (1.55x 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 #408. See the growth leaderboard.

Advanced Bionics

309
Daio Paper

309
Glory

309
Gwangju Institute…

309
Twilio ◀

309
Shanghai Jiao Ton…

308
Certainteed

307
Naver

307
Southwest Petrole…

307

What this shows Twilio holds 309 patents at rank #1,360, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Twilio

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,360 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Twilio, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Twilio ranks #175 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

JNC Corporation 54 Arkray, Inc. 54 Konecranes Global Corporation 54 Guangzhou Shiyuan Electronic Technology Company Limited 54

Similar claim depth

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

Yahoo Assets LLC 19.3 avg Slack Technologies, LLC 19.3 avg Duke University 19.3 avg EMC Corporation 19.3 avg

Twilio's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Twilio Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	3.2%
2016	33	10.7%
2017	19	6.1%
2018	22	7.1%
2019	21	6.8%
2020	27	8.7%
2021	21	6.8%
2022	22	7.1%
2023	44	14.2%
2024	41	13.3%
2025partial year	49	15.9%

Which technologies does Twilio Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 248

H04M - Telephonic Communication 140

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 124

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 95

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 27

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 13

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 13

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 10

H04Q - Selecting 9

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 7

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 5

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

Top 13 of 13 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

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

Twilio Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 80.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #1,360 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Twilio Inc. against Advanced Bionics AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.5/100 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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