Where does Unwired Planet, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Unwired Planet, LLC ranks #6,401 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 Unwired Planet, LLC hold?

Unwired Planet, LLC holds 53 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Unwired Planet, LLC's Innovation Score?

Unwired Planet, LLC has an Innovation Score of 38.6 out of 100 (top 40% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Unwired Planet, LLC focus on?

Unwired Planet, LLC's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 38 patents, ranking #825 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Unwired Planet, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Unwired Planet, LLC's recent grant velocity is -90% 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 Unwired Planet, LLC's patents?

Unwired Planet, LLC'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 Unwired Planet, 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

Unwired Planet, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 53 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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, Unwired ranks #6,401 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 53 patents across 9 technology areas.

#6,401
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 40%
by Innovation Score (38.6/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: -90%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6401 · US Corporation #6,401 · 53 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 53 grants
UPPER-Q #6,401/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH UIH America
CPC-NARROW H04L · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -90% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: UIH America, 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 Unwired’s 38.6 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 13.8 pts (36%) Velocity 2.7 pts (7%) Breadth 10.6 pts (27%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
LifeScan Scotland · near

39
Radiall · near

39
Raindance · near

39
Unwired Planet · this assignee

39
Virtuozzo Internatio… · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Unwired's Innovation Score is 38.6/100 (top 40% 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 Unwired?

Each dot is one of Unwired’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). Unwired’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Unwired's grants concentrate

Unwired Planet, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 71.7% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (31 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, Unwired sits between UIH America, Inc. and Virtuozzo International GmbH.

Unwired's three-year grant acceleration

Unwired Planet, LLC shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

UIH America

53
Ultrahaptics IP

53
Ultima Genomics

53
University of Lim…

53
Veoneer Sweden AB

53
Varcode

53
Velcro Bvba

53
Virtuozzo Interna…

53
Unwired Planet ◀

53

What this shows Unwired holds 53 patents at rank #6,399, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Unwired

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,399 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Unwired, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Unwired ranks #825 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Virtuozzo International GmbH 39 LifeScan Scotland Limited 39 Raindance Technologies, Inc. 39 Radiall 39

Similar claim depth

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

Inpria Corporation 19.3 avg Leia Inc. 19.3 avg Slack Technologies, LLC 19.3 avg Yahoo Assets LLC 19.3 avg

Unwired's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 40% higher than 60% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Unwired Planet, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	31	58.5%
2016	8	15.1%
2017	4	7.5%
2018	3	5.7%
2019	2	3.8%
2020	3	5.7%
2022	2	3.8%

Which technologies does Unwired Planet, LLC patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 38

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 35

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

H04J - Multiplex Communication 8

H04M - Telephonic Communication 8

H04B - Transmission 8

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 6

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 1

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 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Unwired Planet, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Unwired Planet, LLC's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 71.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #6,401 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Unwired Planet, LLC against UIH America, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.6/100 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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