Where does Broadband iTV, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Broadband iTV, Inc. ranks #4,146 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 Broadband iTV, Inc. hold?

Broadband iTV, Inc. holds 86 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Broadband iTV, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Broadband iTV, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 35.4 out of 100 (top 50% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Broadband iTV, Inc. focus on?

Broadband iTV, Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 82 patents, ranking #239 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

Is Broadband iTV, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Broadband iTV, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -41% 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 Broadband iTV, Inc.'s patents?

Broadband iTV, Inc.'s patents average 14.3 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 Broadband iTV, 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 US Corporation

Broadband iTV, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 86 granted patents across 2 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, Broadband ranks #4,146 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 86 patents across 2 technology areas.

#4,146
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 50%
by Innovation Score (35.4/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: -41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4146 · US Corporation #4,146 · 86 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 86 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,146/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ABB Technology Oy
CPC-NARROW H04N · 2 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ABB Technology Oy (±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 Broadband’s 35.4 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 15.4 pts (44%) Velocity 6.4 pts (18%) Breadth 5.0 pts (14%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aisin Keikinzoku · near

35
American Wave Machines · near

35
Broadband iTV · this assignee

35
CU Aerospace · near

35
Sami Labs · near

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Broadband's Innovation Score is 35.4/100 (top 50% 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 Broadband?

Each dot is one of Broadband’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). Broadband’s own 14.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Broadband's grants concentrate

Broadband iTV, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 95.3% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (17 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Broadband sits between Yara International ASA and Dcstar Inc.

Broadband's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Broadband iTV, Inc. moved from 22 to 21 grants (0.95x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Yara Internationa…

87
Zodiac Pool Syste…

87
ABB Technology Oy

86
American Regent

86
Cambro Manufactur…

86
Coast Cutlery

86
Corindus

86
Dcstar

86
Broadband itv ◀

86

What this shows Broadband holds 86 patents at rank #4,146, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Broadband

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,146 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Broadband, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Broadband ranks #239 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Sami Labs Limited 35 Aisin Keikinzoku Co., Ltd. 35 American Wave Machines, Inc. 35 CU Aerospace, LLC 35

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.3 here).

Voxx International Corporation 14.3 avg BGI Shenzhen 14.3 avg SZ DJI Osmo Technology Co., Ltd. 14.3 avg Albert Einstein College of Medicine 14.3 avg

Broadband's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 50% higher than 50% 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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Broadband iTV, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	5.8%
2016	11	12.8%
2017	10	11.6%
2018	17	19.8%
2019	11	12.8%
2020	9	10.5%
2021	2	2.3%
2022	14	16.3%
2023	6	7.0%
2024	1	1.2%

Which technologies does Broadband iTV, Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 82

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 82

Top 2 of 2 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

Broadband iTV, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Broadband iTV, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 95.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #4,146 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Broadband iTV, Inc. against Yara International ASA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.4/100 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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