Where does Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. ranks #74 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 Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. hold?

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. holds 4,862 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 112 technology areas.

What is Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. has an Innovation Score of 73.9 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 Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. focus on?

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 2,386 patents, ranking #19 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 112 CPC subclasses total.

Is Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -12% 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 Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.'s patents?

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.'s patents average 19.8 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 Verizon Patent and Licensing 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

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 4,862 granted patents across 112 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, Verizon ranks #74 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 4,862 patents across 112 technology areas.

#74
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (73.9/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: -12%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R74 · US Corporation #74 · 4,862 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 4.9K grants
TOP-DECILE #74/49,997
NEAR-PEER Facebook
CPC-WIDE H04L · 112 areas
INNOV-STRONG 73.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -12% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Facebook, Inc. (±13 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 Verizon’s 73.9 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 29.3 pts (40%) Velocity 7.7 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Waymo · near

74
Wolfspeed · near

74
Verizon Patent and… · this assignee

74
ZTE · near

74
Bnsf Railway · near

74
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Verizon's Innovation Score is 73.9/100 (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 Verizon?

Each dot is one of Verizon’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). Verizon’s own 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Verizon's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. received 2,167 grants versus 2,466 in 2015–2019 (-12% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 653 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 339. Lead class H04L accounts for 49.1% of the portfolio across 112 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Tokyo Electron Limited (#70) and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (#78).

Verizon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. moved from 1,180 to 1,362 grants (1.15x 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 #860. See the growth leaderboard.

Tokyo Electron

5,061
Bank of America

4,988
Vmware

4,914
Facebook

4,875
Verizon Patent an… ◀

4,862
Olympus

4,844
Schlumberger Tech…

4,606
Globalfoundries

4,547
Sumitomo Electric…

4,378

What this shows Verizon holds 4,862 patents at rank #74, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Verizon

By rank, the assignees closest to #74 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Verizon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Verizon ranks #19 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (74 here).

Wolfspeed, Inc. 74 ZTE Corporation 74 Waymo LLC 74 Bnsf Railway Company 74

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.8 here).

Micron Technology, Inc. 19.8 avg Excalibur IP, LLC 19.8 avg Rapiscan Systems, Inc. 19.8 avg PlusAI, Inc. 19.8 avg

Verizon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

74 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.

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Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	653	13.4%
2016	563	11.6%
2017	468	9.6%
2018	407	8.4%
2019	375	7.7%
2020	390	8.0%
2021	415	8.5%
2022	510	10.5%
2023	513	10.6%
2024	339	7.0%
2025partial year	229	4.7%

Which technologies does Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2,386

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2,164

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,095

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 627

H04M - Telephonic Communication 463

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 423

H04B - Transmission 296

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 232

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 220

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 148

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 144

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 114

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 112

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 78

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 63

Top 15 of 112 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 49.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #74 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. against Tokyo Electron Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 73.9/100 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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