Where does US Tower Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), US Tower Corporation ranks #20,579 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does US Tower Corporation hold?

US Tower Corporation holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is US Tower Corporation's Innovation Score?

US Tower Corporation has an Innovation Score of 28.9 out of 100 (top 71% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is US Tower Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

US Tower Corporation's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 US Tower Corporation's patents?

US Tower Corporation's patents average 13.9 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 US Tower 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

US Tower Corporation

Q: What technology areas does US Tower Corporation focus on?

US Tower Corporation's top technology area is E04H (BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL) with 11 patents. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: E04H (BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, US ranks #20,579 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 10 technology areas.

#20,579
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 71%
by Innovation Score (28.9/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20579 · US Corporation #20,579 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,579/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH UltimatePointer L L C
CPC-FOCUS E04H · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ultimatepointer, L.l.c. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
US Tower · this assignee

29
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows US's Innovation Score is 28.9/100 (top 71% 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.

Where US's grants concentrate

US Tower Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 78.6% of grants classified under E04H (BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, US sits between Universitetet I Tromsø—norges Arktiske Universitet and Ultivue, Inc..

Universitetet I T…

14
University OF Gen…

14
UniversitÄT Leipz…

14
Uromems

14
Ustudio

14
Utherverse Digital

14
Ultimatepointer L…

14
Ultivue

14
US Tower ◀

14

What this shows US holds 14 patents at rank #20,568, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near US

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,568 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04H (Buildings OR LIKE Structures FOR Particular Purposes)

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

US's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 Top 71% higher than 29% of 50,000 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

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

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US Tower Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	14.3%
2016	6	42.9%
2017	3	21.4%
2018	2	14.3%
2019	1	7.1%

Which technologies does US Tower Corporation patent most?

E04H - BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL 11

E04B - GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS 6

F16M - FRAMES, CASINGS OR BEDS OF ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS, NOT SPECIFIC TO ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; SUPPORTS 4

B65H - HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES 3

E04C - STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; BUILDING MATERIALS 3

G01L - MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE 2

G08B - SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS 2

B66B - ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS 2

H01Q - ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS 1

H01C - RESISTORS 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,579

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

28.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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