Where does Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. ranks #525 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 Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. hold?

Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. holds 857 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 42 technology areas.

What is Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 68.0 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. focus on?

Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 483 patents, ranking #103 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 42 CPC subclasses total.

Is Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +182% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.'s patents?

Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.'s patents average 17.6 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 Cable Television Laboratories, 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

Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 857 granted patents across 42 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cable ranks #525 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 857 patents across 42 technology areas.

#525
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.0/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: +182%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R525 · US Corporation #525 · 857 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 857 grants
TOP-DECILE #525/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Case Western…
CPC-WIDE H04L · 42 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +182% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Case Western Reserve University (±1 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 Cable’s 68.0 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 23.3 pts (34%) Velocity 11.1 pts (16%) Breadth 22.9 pts (34%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Globe (Jiangsu) · near

68
Daikin Industries · near

68
LS Electric · near

68
Makita · near

68
Cable Television… · this assignee

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cable's Innovation Score is 68.0/100 (top 1% 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 Cable?

Each dot is one of Cable’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). Cable’s own 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cable's grants concentrate

Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 42 CPC subclasses with 56.4% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (147 grants) versus a trough of 33 in 2018. By volume, Cable sits between Zebra Technologies Corporation and Microchip Technology Incorporated.

Cable's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. moved from 241 to 403 grants (1.67x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #327. See the growth leaderboard.

Zebra

863
Sharkninja Operat…

862
Coretronic

858
Lear

858
Cable Television… ◀

857
Case Western Rese…

856
W L Gore & Associ…

856
Philips Lighting…

855
Microchip Technol…

851

What this shows Cable holds 857 patents at rank #525, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cable

By rank, the assignees closest to #525 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cable, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Cable ranks #103 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

Makita Corporation 68 Daikin Industries, Ltd. 68 LS Electric Co., Ltd. 68 Globe (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.6 here).

Cilag GmbH International 17.6 avg Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. 17.6 avg Tower Partners Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 17.6 avg Engel Austria GMBH 17.6 avg

Cable's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 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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Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	38	4.4%
2016	39	4.6%
2017	49	5.7%
2018	33	3.9%
2019	51	6.0%
2020	76	8.9%
2021	114	13.3%
2022	115	13.4%
2023	147	17.2%
2024	141	16.5%
2025partial year	54	6.3%

Which technologies does Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 483

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 343

H04B - Transmission 293

H04J - Multiplex Communication 137

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 98

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 78

H04Q - Selecting 60

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 30

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 28

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 22

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 13

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 12

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 11

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 11

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 10

Top 15 of 42 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

Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 56.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #525 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. against Zebra Technologies Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.0/100 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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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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