Where does Comcast Cable Communications, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Comcast Cable Communications, LLC ranks #132 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 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC hold?

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC holds 2,828 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 61 technology areas.

What is Comcast Cable Communications, LLC's Innovation Score?

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC has an Innovation Score of 78.7 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 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC focus on?

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 1,470 patents, ranking #34 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 61 CPC subclasses total.

Is Comcast Cable Communications, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC's recent grant velocity is +134% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Comcast Cable Communications, LLC's patents?

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC's patents average 27.0 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 Comcast Cable Communications, 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

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,828 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Comcast ranks #132 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,828 patents across 61 technology areas.

#132
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (78.7/100): 27.0
avg claims per patent: +134%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R132 · US Corporation #132 · 2,828 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 2.8K grants
TOP-DECILE #132/49,997
NEAR-PEER Beijing Xiaomi…
CPC-WIDE H04L · 61 areas
INNOV-STRONG 78.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 27.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +134% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd. (±12 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 Comcast’s 78.7 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 27.5 pts (35%) Velocity 11.2 pts (14%) Breadth 25.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GM Cruise Holdings · near

79
Comcast Cable… · this assignee

79
Meta Platforms · near

79
Beijing BOE… · near

79
Charter Communicatio… · near

79
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Comcast's Innovation Score is 78.7/100 (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 Comcast?

Each dot is one of Comcast’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). Comcast’s own 27.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Comcast's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Comcast Cable Communications, LLC received 1,751 grants versus 747 in 2015–2019 (+134% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 439 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 98. Lead class H04L accounts for 52% of the portfolio across 61 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Toshiba Memory Corporation (#128) and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (#136).

Comcast's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Comcast Cable Communications, LLC moved from 726 to 1,219 grants (1.68x 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 #324. See the growth leaderboard.

Toshiba Memory

2,972
TDK

2,914
Juniper Networks

2,902
Beijing Xiaomi Mo…

2,840
Comcast Cable Com… ◀

2,828
Sony Semiconducto…

2,791
NXP B V

2,783
Salesforce com

2,773
Wells Fargo Bank…

2,773

What this shows Comcast holds 2,828 patents at rank #132, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Comcast

By rank, the assignees closest to #132 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Comcast, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Comcast ranks #34 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (79 here).

Meta Platforms, Inc. 79 Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd. 79 GM Cruise Holdings LLC 79 Charter Communications Operating, LLC 79

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (27.0 here).

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. 26.9 avg CureVac SE 26.8 avg Flamel Ireland Limited 26.8 avg NCH Corporation 26.8 avg

Comcast'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

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	98	3.5%
2016	130	4.6%
2017	169	6.0%
2018	156	5.5%
2019	194	6.9%
2020	261	9.2%
2021	271	9.6%
2022	350	12.4%
2023	430	15.2%
2024	439	15.5%
2025partial year	330	11.7%

Which technologies does Comcast Cable Communications, LLC patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1,470

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 964

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 962

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 468

H04B - Transmission 274

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 148

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 129

H04M - Telephonic Communication 121

H04J - Multiplex Communication 102

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 99

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 98

H04H - Broadcast Communication 83

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 56

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 52

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 51

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

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

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 52% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #132 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Comcast Cable Communications, LLC against Toshiba Memory Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 78.7/100 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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