Where does Wi-LAN Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wi-LAN Inc. ranks #3,793 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 Wi-LAN Inc. hold?

Wi-LAN Inc. holds 96 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Wi-LAN Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Wi-LAN Inc. has an Innovation Score of 42.1 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Wi-LAN Inc. focus on?

Wi-LAN Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 80 patents, ranking #462 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Wi-LAN Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wi-LAN Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -60% 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 Wi-LAN Inc.'s patents?

Wi-LAN Inc.'s patents average 20.0 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 Wi-LAN 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 Foreign Corporation

Wi-LAN Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 96 granted patents across 10 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, Wi-lan ranks #3,793 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 96 patents across 10 technology areas.

#3,793
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.1/100): 20.0
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3793 · Foreign Corporation #3,793 · 96 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 96 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,793/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Universitat Zurich
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 20.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Universitat Zurich (±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 Wi-lan’s 42.1 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 15.8 pts (37%) Velocity 3.2 pts (8%) Breadth 11.2 pts (27%) Claim depth 12.0 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
DSG Technology… · near

42
Federal Law… · near

42
Institute for… · near

42
Liqxtal Technology · near

42
Wi-LAN · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wi-lan's Innovation Score is 42.1/100 (top 31% 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 Wi-lan?

Each dot is one of Wi-lan’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). Wi-lan’s own 20.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Wi-lan's grants concentrate

Wi-LAN Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (26 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Wi-lan sits between Universitat Zurich and Abbott Molecular Inc..

Wi-lan's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Wi-LAN Inc. moved from 23 to 11 grants (0.48x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Universitat Zurich

96
University of Seo…

96
Vanda Pharmaceuti…

96
Verifone

96
Wix com

96
Zimmer Biomet Spi…

96
Wi-lan ◀

96
American Airlines

95
Abbott Molecular

95

What this shows Wi-LAN holds 96 patents at rank #3,793, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wi-LAN

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,793 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Wi-LAN's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Wi-LAN, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Wi-LAN ranks #462 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Institute for Research in Biomedicine 42 Federal Law Enforcement Development Services, Inc. 42 DSG Technology Holdings Ltd 42 Liqxtal Technology Inc. 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.0 here).

Volterra Semiconductor LLC 20.0 avg SambaNova Systems, Inc. 20.0 avg Asml Holding N.V. 20.0 avg Gentherm Incorporated 20.0 avg

Wi-lan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% 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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Wi-LAN Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	26	27.1%
2016	18	18.8%
2017	10	10.4%
2018	6	6.3%
2019	7	7.3%
2020	6	6.3%
2021	10	10.4%
2022	1	1.0%
2023	7	7.3%
2024	3	3.1%
2025partial year	2	2.1%

Which technologies does Wi-LAN Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 80

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 67

H04B - Transmission 28

H04J - Multiplex Communication 11

H04Q - Selecting 10

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 7

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 5

H04H - Broadcast Communication 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Wi-LAN Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Wi-LAN Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #3,793 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wi-LAN Inc. against Universitat Zurich, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.1/100 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

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