Where does Vodafone IP Licensing Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vodafone IP Licensing Limited ranks #2,999 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 Vodafone IP Licensing Limited hold?

Vodafone IP Licensing Limited holds 127 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Vodafone IP Licensing Limited's Innovation Score?

Vodafone IP Licensing Limited has an Innovation Score of 42.5 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Vodafone IP Licensing Limited focus on?

Vodafone IP Licensing Limited's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 110 patents, ranking #192 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

Is Vodafone IP Licensing Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vodafone IP Licensing Limited's recent grant velocity is -74% 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 Vodafone IP Licensing Limited's patents?

Vodafone IP Licensing Limited's patents average 16.2 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 Vodafone IP Licensing Limited 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

Vodafone IP Licensing Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 127 granted patents across 18 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vodafone ranks #2,999 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 127 patents across 18 technology areas.

#2,999
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.5/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: -74%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2999 · Foreign Corporation #2,999 · 127 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 127 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,999/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The PNC Financial…
CPC-FOCUS H04W · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -74% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The PNC Financial Services Group, 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 Vodafone’s 42.5 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 16.8 pts (40%) Velocity 1.0 pts (2%) Breadth 15.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hisamitsu Pharmaceut… · near

43
AIR Cool Industrial · near

43
PaloDEx Group Oy · near

43
Reckitt & Colman… · near

43
Vodafone IP Licensing · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vodafone's Innovation Score is 42.5/100 (top 30% 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 Vodafone?

Each dot is one of Vodafone’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). Vodafone’s own 16.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Vodafone's grants concentrate

Vodafone IP Licensing Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 86.6% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (27 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2024. By volume, Vodafone sits between The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. and Wyeth, LLC.

Vodafone's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Vodafone IP Licensing Limited moved from 46 to 7 grants (0.15x 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 #3,137. See the growth leaderboard.

The PNC Financial…

127
University OF Tsu…

127
UNM Rainforest In…

127
Universite Pierre…

127
W Kordes' SÖHNE R…

127
Wangsu Science AN…

127
Whitehead Institu…

127
Wyeth

127
Vodafone IP Licen… ◀

127

What this shows Vodafone holds 127 patents at rank #2,999, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vodafone

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,999 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Vodafone, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Vodafone ranks #192 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

AIR Cool Industrial Co., Ltd. 43 Reckitt & Colman (Overseas) Hygiene Home Limited 43 PaloDEx Group Oy 43 Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co., Inc. 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.2 here).

MONDAY.COM Ltd. 16.2 avg Headwater Research LLC 16.2 avg ConsumerInfo.com, Inc. 16.2 avg Hisense Broadband Multimedia Technologies Co., Ltd. 16.2 avg

Vodafone's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% 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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Vodafone IP Licensing Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	12.6%
2016	21	16.5%
2017	24	18.9%
2018	12	9.4%
2019	27	21.3%
2020	14	11.0%
2021	5	3.9%
2022	4	3.1%
2024	3	2.4%
2025partial year	1	0.8%

Which technologies does Vodafone IP Licensing Limited patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 110

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 81

H04B - Transmission 22

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 19

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 17

H04M - Telephonic Communication 15

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 4

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 4

H04Q - Selecting 3

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

H04J - Multiplex Communication 1

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 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 15 of 18 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

Vodafone IP Licensing Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vodafone IP Licensing Limited's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 86.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #2,999 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vodafone IP Licensing Limited against The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.5/100 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.