Where does Charter Communications Operating, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Charter Communications Operating, LLC ranks #512 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 Charter Communications Operating, LLC hold?

Charter Communications Operating, LLC holds 878 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 61 technology areas.

What is Charter Communications Operating, LLC's Innovation Score?

Charter Communications Operating, LLC has an Innovation Score of 78.6 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 Charter Communications Operating, LLC focus on?

Charter Communications Operating, LLC's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 524 patents, ranking #56 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 61 CPC subclasses total.

Is Charter Communications Operating, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Charter Communications Operating, LLC's recent grant velocity is +1548% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Charter Communications Operating, LLC's patents?

Charter Communications Operating, LLC's patents average 22.3 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 Charter Communications Operating, LLC 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

Charter Communications Operating, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 878 granted patents across 61 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: H04W (Wireless Communication Networks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Charter ranks #512 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 878 patents across 61 technology areas.

#512
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (78.6/100): 22.3
avg claims per patent: +1548%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R512 · US Corporation #512 · 878 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 878 grants
TOP-DECILE #512/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Harry Winston
CPC-WIDE H04W · 61 areas
INNOV-STRONG 78.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +1548% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Harry Winston SA (±2 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 Charter’s 78.6 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 23.4 pts (30%) Velocity 16.8 pts (21%) Breadth 25.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 13.4 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Comcast Cable… · near

79
Meta Platforms · near

79
Beijing BOE… · near

79
Charter Communicatio… · this assignee

79
Dell Products · near

79
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Charter's Innovation Score is 78.6/100 (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 Charter?

Each dot is one of Charter’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). Charter’s own 22.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Charter's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Charter Communications Operating, LLC received 725 grants versus 44 in 2015–2019 (+1548% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 201 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 1. Lead class H04W accounts for 59.7% of the portfolio across 61 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC (#508) and Georgia Tech Research Corporation (#516).

Charter's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Charter Communications Operating, LLC moved from 212 to 535 grants (2.52x 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 #116. See the growth leaderboard.

Weatherford Techn…

886
Toyota Boshoku

885
Furukawa Electric

883
E I DU Pont DE Ne…

882
Charter Communica… ◀

878
Harry Winston

876
Imec VZW

876
Amgen

875
Georgia Tech Rese…

870

What this shows Charter holds 878 patents at rank #512, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Charter

By rank, the assignees closest to #512 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Charter, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Charter ranks #56 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (79 here).

Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd. 79 Meta Platforms, Inc. 79 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC 79 Dell Products L.P. 79

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.3 here).

Guardant Health, Inc. 22.3 avg Usnr, LLC 22.3 avg First Dome Corporation 22.3 avg Open Text S.A. 22.3 avg

Charter's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

79 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.

View data table

Charter Communications Operating, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	0.1%
2016	3	0.3%
2017	11	1.3%
2018	7	0.8%
2019	22	2.5%
2020	64	7.3%
2021	126	14.4%
2022	159	18.1%
2023	201	22.9%
2024	175	19.9%
2025partial year	109	12.4%

Which technologies does Charter Communications Operating, LLC patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 524

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 431

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 120

H04B - Transmission 96

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 79

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 32

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 31

H04M - Telephonic Communication 26

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 22

H04J - Multiplex Communication 20

H04Q - Selecting 19

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 17

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 12

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 8

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 7

Top 15 of 61 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

Charter Communications Operating, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Charter Communications Operating, LLC's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 59.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #512 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Charter Communications Operating, LLC against Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 78.6/100 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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