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British SKY Broadcasting Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2015. 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, British ranks #28,298 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 4 technology areas.

#28,298
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
8th percentile
by Innovation Score (21.1/100)
10.1
avg claims per patent
-100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28298 · Foreign Corporation #28,298 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
  • MID-PACK #28,298/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Braven LC
  • CPC-NARROW H04N · 4 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 21.1/100
  • CLAIMS-PAR 10.1 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DROP -100% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Braven, LC (±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 British’s 21.1 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around British

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows British's Innovation Score is 21.1/100 (8th percentile 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for British?

Each dot is one of British’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). British’s own 10.1 claims/patent is at or below the 13.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

British vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 8.98.999.1 510152025 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Braven, LC - 9, 9.11Braven LCBreakthrough Golf Technology LLC - 9, 18.33Breakthrough Golf…Brighten Optix Corp. - 9, 9.33Brighten OptixBrink's Network, Incorporated - 9, 20.22Brink's Network I…Brokk Aktiebolag - 9, 11.33Brokk AktiebolagBrose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co. - 9, 13.78Brose Fahrzeugtei…Bruker AXS GmbH - 9, 14.11Bruker AXSBSI Business Systems Integration AG - 9, 20BSI Business Syst…British SKY Broadcasting Ltd. - 9, 10.11British SKY Broad…
British vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where British's grants concentrate

British SKY Broadcasting Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 55.6% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). By volume, British sits between Braven, LC and BSI Business Systems Integration AG.

Who files at British's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows British holds 9 patents at rank #28,239, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near British

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,239 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

British's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

21 8th percentile higher than 8% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 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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British SKY Broadcasting Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 9 100.0%

Which technologies does British SKY Broadcasting Ltd. patent most?

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

British SKY Broadcasting Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • British SKY Broadcasting Ltd.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 55.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
  • Ranked #28,298 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare British SKY Broadcasting Ltd. against Braven, LC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 21.1/100 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

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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

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.