Where does Tyco Fire & Security GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tyco Fire & Security GMBH ranks #683 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 Tyco Fire & Security GMBH hold?

Tyco Fire & Security GMBH holds 659 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 124 technology areas.

What is Tyco Fire & Security GMBH's Innovation Score?

Tyco Fire & Security GMBH has an Innovation Score of 78.8 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 Tyco Fire & Security GMBH focus on?

Tyco Fire & Security GMBH's top technology area is G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems) with 261 patents, ranking #8 of 2,091 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 124 CPC subclasses total.

Is Tyco Fire & Security GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tyco Fire & Security GMBH's recent grant velocity is -11% 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 Tyco Fire & Security GMBH's patents?

Tyco Fire & Security GMBH's patents average 19.0 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 Tyco Fire & Security GMBH 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

Tyco Fire & Security GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 659 granted patents across 124 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: G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tyco ranks #683 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 659 patents across 124 technology areas.

#683
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (78.8/100): 19.0
avg claims per patent: -11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R683 · Foreign Corporation #683 · 659 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 659 grants
TOP-DECILE #683/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pfizer
CPC-WIDE G08B · 124 areas
INNOV-STRONG 78.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pfizer 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 Tyco’s 78.8 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 22.4 pts (28%) Velocity 20.0 pts (25%) Breadth 25.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nippon Telegraph… · near

79
Tyco Fire & Security · this assignee

79
Micron Technology · near

79
GM Cruise Holdings · near

79
Comcast Cable… · near

79
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tyco's Innovation Score is 78.8/100 (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 Tyco?

Each dot is one of Tyco’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). Tyco’s own 19.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Tyco's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Tyco Fire & Security GMBH received 226 grants versus 254 in 2015–2019 (-11% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 176 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 5. Lead class G08B accounts for 39.6% of the portfolio across 124 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd. (#679) and American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (#687).

Tyco's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Tyco Fire & Security GMBH moved from 52 to 201 grants (3.87x 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 #51. See the growth leaderboard.

Datang Mobile Com…

661
Ordos Yuansheng O…

661
Accenture Global…

660
Pfizer

659
Tyco Fire & Secur… ◀

659
Borealis

657
Inventec

656
Immersion

656
American Express…

655

What this shows Tyco holds 659 patents at rank #683, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tyco

By rank, the assignees closest to #683 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G08B (Signalling OR Calling Systems)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Tyco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G08B (Signalling OR Calling Systems), Tyco ranks #8 of 2,091 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (79 here).

Micron Technology, Inc. 79 Nippon Telegraph AND Telephone Corporation 79 GM Cruise Holdings LLC 79 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC 79

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.0 here).

TE Connectivity Co. Ltd. 19.0 avg Cornell University 19.0 avg Laitram, L.L.C. 19.0 avg Analogic Corporation 19.0 avg

Tyco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

79 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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

Tyco Fire & Security GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	52	7.9%
2016	55	8.3%
2017	62	9.4%
2018	58	8.8%
2019	27	4.1%
2020	20	3.0%
2021	5	0.8%
2022	13	2.0%
2023	12	1.8%
2024	176	26.7%
2025partial year	179	27.2%

Which technologies does Tyco Fire & Security GMBH patent most?

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 261

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 141

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 132

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 119

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 108

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 69

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 67

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 51

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 50

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 47

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 45

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 32

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 31

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 31

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 27

Top 15 of 124 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

Tyco Fire & Security GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tyco Fire & Security GMBH's lead technology class is G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems), 39.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G08B
Ranked #683 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tyco Fire & Security GMBH against Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 78.8/100 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

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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