Crown Castle Inc. (CCI)
NYSE: CCI · Real Estate Investment Trusts · Houston, TX · filing with the SEC since 1998
Grade4.3
◀ Past 3.5● Present 3.9▶ Future 5.8
Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 20267 patents granted to the 3 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Crown Castle Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
7
7 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1
Against 1 in 2024 and none in 2023
Applications published
10
1 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
3
a subsidiary, a former name
By yearGrantedApplications published
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Other consumer goods3
Digital communication1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
Crown Castle USA, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
9 published
Crown Castle USA, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Crown Castle International Corp. a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2025 | 12,471,047 | System for optimizing a single frequency network broadcast | Digital communication | Crown Castle USA, Inc. |
| Mar 12, 2024 | 11,925,822 | Safety climb attenuation apparatus | Other consumer goods | Crown Castle USA, Inc. |
| Nov 22, 2022 | 11,504,558 | Safety climb attenuation apparatus | Other consumer goods | Crown Castle USA, Inc. |
| Mar 9, 2021 | 10,940,340 | Safety climb attenuation apparatus | Other consumer goods | Crown Castle USA, Inc. |
| Sep 22, 2020 | 10,781,598 | Combination step bolt and fall protection anchorage assemblies | Civil engineering | Crown Castle USA, Inc. |
| Dec 17, 2013 | 8,607,533 | Tower reinforcement apparatus and method | Civil engineering | Crown Castle USA, Inc. |
| Oct 3, 2006 | 7,116,980 | Method and system for management of radio frequency communication coverage over wide geographic areas | Digital communication | Crown Castle International Corp. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0393004 | System for Optimizing a Single Frequency Network Broadcast | Digital communication | Crown Castle USA, Inc. |
| Dec 21, 2023 | 2023/0413205 | System for Optimizing a Single Frequency Network Broadcast | Digital communication | Crown Castle USA, Inc. · patent 12,471,047 granted from it |
| Jul 20, 2023 | 2023/0226390 | SAFETY CLIMB ATTENUATION APPARATUS | Other consumer goods | Crown Castle USA, Inc. · patent 11,925,822 granted from it |
| Aug 18, 2022 | 2022/0263338 | Power Backup for LoRa Gateway | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Crown Castle USA, Inc. |
| Aug 19, 2021 | 2021/0252318 | SAFETY CLIMB ATTENUATION APPARATUS | Other consumer goods | Crown Castle USA, Inc. · patent 11,504,558 granted from it |
| Dec 31, 2020 | 2020/0407988 | COMBINATION STEP BOLT AND FALL PROTECTION ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLIES | Civil engineering | Crown Castle USA, Inc. · patent 12,509,895 granted from it |
| Jun 18, 2020 | 2020/0191192 | TENSION-CONTROLLED U-BOLTS | Mechanical elements | Crown Castle USA, Inc. |
| Jul 4, 2019 | 2019/0201724 | SAFETY CLIMB ATTENUATION APPARATUS | Other consumer goods | Crown Castle USA, Inc. · patent 10,940,340 granted from it |
| Apr 12, 2018 | 2018/0100318 | COMBINATION STEP BOLT AND FALL PROTECTION ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLIES | Civil engineering | Crown Castle USA, Inc. · patent 10,781,598 granted from it |
| Jun 23, 2005 | 2005/0136931 | Method and system for management of radio frequency communication coverage over wide geographic areas | Digital communication | Crown Castle International Corp. · patent 7,116,980 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Digital communication 1.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.