Where does United States Cellular Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), United States Cellular Corporation ranks #12,735 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 United States Cellular Corporation hold?

United States Cellular Corporation holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is United States Cellular Corporation's Innovation Score?

United States Cellular Corporation has an Innovation Score of 34.8 out of 100 (49th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does United States Cellular Corporation focus on?

United States Cellular Corporation's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 22 patents, ranking #712 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is United States Cellular Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

United States Cellular Corporation's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 United States Cellular Corporation's patents?

United States Cellular Corporation's patents average 20.2 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 United States Cellular 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

United States Cellular Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 7 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: H04W (Wireless Communication Networks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, United ranks #12,735 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 7 technology areas.

#12,735
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 49th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.8/100): 20.2
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12735 · US Corporation #12,735 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,735/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH UltraSense Systems
CPC-NARROW H04W · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: UltraSense Systems, 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 United’s 34.8 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 11.1 pts (32%) Velocity 2.2 pts (6%) Breadth 9.4 pts (27%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (35%)

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What this shows United's Innovation Score is 34.8/100 (49th percentile 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 United?

Each dot is one of United’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). United’s own 20.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where United's grants concentrate

United States Cellular Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 91.7% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, United sits between UltraSense Systems, Inc. and University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

United's three-year grant acceleration

United States Cellular Corporation shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

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What this shows United holds 24 patents at rank #12,741, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near United

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,741 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

United's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 49th percentile higher than 49% 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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United States Cellular Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	8.3%
2016	5	20.8%
2017	2	8.3%
2018	4	16.7%
2019	1	4.2%
2020	4	16.7%
2021	1	4.2%
2023	1	4.2%
2024	1	4.2%
2025partial year	3	12.5%

Which technologies does United States Cellular Corporation patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 22

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 7

H04M - Telephonic Communication 5

H04B - Transmission 2

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 1

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

Top 7 of 7 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

United States Cellular Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

United States Cellular Corporation's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 91.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #12,735 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare United States Cellular Corporation against UltraSense Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.8/100 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

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.