Where does ZTE Wistron Telecom AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ZTE Wistron Telecom AB ranks #9,945 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 ZTE Wistron Telecom AB hold?

ZTE Wistron Telecom AB holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is ZTE Wistron Telecom AB's Innovation Score?

ZTE Wistron Telecom AB has an Innovation Score of 44.7 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does ZTE Wistron Telecom AB focus on?

ZTE Wistron Telecom AB's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 25 patents, ranking #631 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is ZTE Wistron Telecom AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ZTE Wistron Telecom AB's recent grant velocity is -72% 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 ZTE Wistron Telecom AB's patents?

ZTE Wistron Telecom AB's patents average 24.4 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 ZTE Wistron Telecom AB 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

ZTE Wistron Telecom AB

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ZTE ranks #9,945 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 8 technology areas.

#9,945
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.7/100): 24.4
avg claims per patent: -72%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9945 · Foreign Corporation #9,945 · 32 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,945/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ÉCOLE Polytechnique…
CPC-NARROW H04W · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -72% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ÉCOLE Polytechnique FÉDÉRALE DE Lausanne (±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 ZTE’s 44.7 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 12.1 pts (27%) Velocity 8.0 pts (18%) Breadth 10.0 pts (22%) Claim depth 14.7 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chongqing Jinkang… · near

45
FlatFrog Laboratorie… · near

45
Neonode · near

45
SunEdison · near

45
ZTE Wistron Telecom AB · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ZTE's Innovation Score is 44.7/100 (top 25% 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 ZTE?

Each dot is one of ZTE’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). ZTE’s own 24.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where ZTE's grants concentrate

ZTE Wistron Telecom AB is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 78.1% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, ZTE sits between Xylem IP Management S. à r.l. and 14th Round Inc..

ZTE's three-year grant acceleration

ZTE Wistron Telecom AB shows 6 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.

Xylem IP Manageme…

32
Yellowbrick Data

32
Zaigle

32
Zeroavia

32
Zhuhai Access Sem…

32
iloq Oy

32
ÉCOLE Polytechniq…

32
ZTE Wistron Telec… ◀

32
14th Round

31

What this shows ZTE holds 32 patents at rank #9,943, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ZTE

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,943 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ZTE, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), ZTE ranks #631 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

SunEdison, Inc. 45 Chongqing Jinkang NEW Energy Vehicle Co., Ltd. 45 Neonode Inc. 45 FlatFrog Laboratories AB 45

ZTE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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ZTE Wistron Telecom AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	12.5%
2016	7	21.9%
2017	4	12.5%
2018	6	18.8%
2019	4	12.5%
2021	1	3.1%
2022	3	9.4%
2023	1	3.1%
2024	2	6.3%

Which technologies does ZTE Wistron Telecom AB patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 25

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 22

H04B - Transmission 13

H04J - Multiplex Communication 5

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 4

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 2

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

H03F - Amplifiers 1

Top 8 of 8 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

ZTE Wistron Telecom AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ZTE Wistron Telecom AB's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 78.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #9,945 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ZTE Wistron Telecom AB against Xylem IP Management S. à r.l., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.7/100 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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