Where does Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A. ranks #4,858 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 Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A. hold?

Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A. holds 71 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 48 technology areas.

What is Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A.'s Innovation Score?

Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A. has an Innovation Score of 47.3 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A. focus on?

Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 23 patents, ranking #702 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 48 CPC subclasses total.

Is Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A.'s recent grant velocity is -55% 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 Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A.'s patents?

Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A.'s patents average 8.4 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 Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A. 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

Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 71 granted patents across 48 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Advanced ranks #4,858 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 71 patents across 48 technology areas.

#4,858
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.3/100): 8.4
avg claims per patent: -55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4858 · Foreign Corporation #4,858 · 71 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 71 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,858/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aclara
CPC-WIDE H04N · 48 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aclara Technologies LLC (±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 Advanced’s 47.3 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 14.8 pts (31%) Velocity 3.0 pts (6%) Breadth 24.5 pts (52%) Claim depth 5.0 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Advanced Digital… · this assignee

47
Guehring KG · near

47
HongQiSheng… · near

47
Invidi · near

47
SK Planet · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Advanced's Innovation Score is 47.3/100 (top 19% 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 Advanced?

Each dot is one of Advanced’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). Advanced’s own 8.4 claims/patent is at or below the 17.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Advanced's grants concentrate

Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 48 CPC subclasses with 32.4% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (18 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Advanced sits between ViaCyte, Inc. and Allied Wheel Components.

Advanced's three-year grant acceleration

Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A. shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Viacyte

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72
Xiamen San'an Opt…

72
kaleo

72
AS IP Holdco

71
ASP Global Manufa…

71
Aclara

71
Allied Wheel Comp…

71
Advanced Digital… ◀

71

What this shows Advanced holds 71 patents at rank #4,857, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Advanced

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,857 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Advanced, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Advanced ranks #702 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

HongQiSheng Precision Electronics (QinHuangDao) Co., Ltd. 47 Guehring KG 47 SK Planet Co., Ltd. 47 Invidi Technologies Corporation 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.4 here).

Kabo Tool Company 8.4 avg Zhejiang LAB 8.4 avg Yamabiko Corporation 8.4 avg Meidensha Corporation 8.4 avg

Advanced's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% 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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Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	11.3%
2016	18	25.4%
2017	10	14.1%
2018	9	12.7%
2019	4	5.6%
2020	9	12.7%
2021	5	7.0%
2022	5	7.0%
2023	1	1.4%
2024	2	2.8%

Which technologies does Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 23

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 18

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 6

H04H - Broadcast Communication 5

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 4

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 3

H04B - Transmission 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

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 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

Top 15 of 48 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

Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 32.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #4,858 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A. against ViaCyte, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.3/100 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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