Where does Cox Communications, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cox Communications, Inc. ranks #1,239 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 Cox Communications, Inc. hold?

Cox Communications, Inc. holds 342 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 42 technology areas.

What is Cox Communications, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cox Communications, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 59.4 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Cox Communications, Inc. focus on?

Cox Communications, Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 154 patents, ranking #146 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 42 CPC subclasses total.

Is Cox Communications, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cox Communications, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -31% 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 Cox Communications, Inc.'s patents?

Cox Communications, Inc.'s patents average 19.2 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 Cox Communications, 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

Cox Communications, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 342 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cox ranks #1,239 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 342 patents across 42 technology areas.

#1,239
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.4/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: -31%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1239 · US Corporation #1,239 · 342 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 342 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,239/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hartford Fire…
CPC-WIDE H04N · 42 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -31% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hartford Fire Insurance Company (±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 Cox’s 59.4 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 20.2 pts (34%) Velocity 4.8 pts (8%) Breadth 22.9 pts (39%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
NSK · near

59
Cox Communications · this assignee

59
Showa Denko Materials · near

59
MANN+HUMMEL · near

59
Toyoda Gosei · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cox's Innovation Score is 59.4/100 (top 4% 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 Cox?

Each dot is one of Cox’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). Cox’s own 19.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cox's grants concentrate

Cox Communications, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 42 CPC subclasses with 45% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (50 grants) versus a trough of 19 in 2023. By volume, Cox sits between NEC Platforms, Ltd. and Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company.

Cox's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cox Communications, Inc. moved from 102 to 73 grants (0.72x 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 #2,098. See the growth leaderboard.

NEC Platforms

344
Oki Electric Indu…

344
SHL Medical

344
Sonoco Development

344
Hartford Fire Ins…

342
Cox Communications ◀

342
8x8

341
Cargill Incorpora…

341
Exxon Mobil Techn…

341

What this shows Cox holds 342 patents at rank #1,239, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cox

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,239 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cox, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Cox ranks #146 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

NSK Ltd. 59 Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd. 59 MANN+HUMMEL GmbH 59 Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.2 here).

Adeia Guides Inc. 19.2 avg Z124 19.2 avg Marvell International Ltd. 19.2 avg Cisco Technology, Inc. 19.2 avg

Cox's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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

Cox Communications, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	50	14.6%
2016	34	9.9%
2017	34	9.9%
2018	38	11.1%
2019	40	11.7%
2020	30	8.8%
2021	32	9.4%
2022	33	9.6%
2023	19	5.6%
2024	21	6.1%
2025partial year	11	3.2%

Which technologies does Cox Communications, Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 154

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 135

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 62

H04B - Transmission 43

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 37

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 36

H04J - Multiplex Communication 27

H04Q - Selecting 24

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 21

H04H - Broadcast Communication 11

H04M - Telephonic Communication 8

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 8

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 5

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 5

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 4

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

Cox Communications, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cox Communications, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 45% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #1,239 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cox Communications, Inc. against NEC Platforms, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.4/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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