Where does Digital 14 LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Digital 14 LLC ranks #16,731 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 Digital 14 LLC hold?

Digital 14 LLC holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2023, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Digital 14 LLC's Innovation Score?

Digital 14 LLC has an Innovation Score of 30.7 out of 100 (35th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Digital 14 LLC focus on?

Digital 14 LLC's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 14 patents, ranking #1,832 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Digital 14 LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Digital 14 LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Digital 14 LLC's patents?

Digital 14 LLC's patents average 15.3 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 Digital 14 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 Foreign Corporation

Digital 14 LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2023. 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, Digital ranks #16,731 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 5 technology areas.

#16,731
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 35th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.7/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16731 · Foreign Corporation #16,731 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,731/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Decor Grates…
CPC-NARROW H04L · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2023 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Decor Grates Incorporated (±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 Digital’s 30.7 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 10.0 pts (33%) Velocity 3.6 pts (12%) Breadth 7.9 pts (26%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Digital 14 · this assignee

31
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Digital's Innovation Score is 30.7/100 (35th percentile 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 Digital?

Each dot is one of Digital’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). Digital’s own 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Digital's grants concentrate

Digital 14 LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 82.4% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (6 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Digital sits between Decor Grates Incorporated and Dowa IP Creation Co., Ltd..

Digital's three-year grant acceleration

Digital 14 LLC shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

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17
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Deme Offshore BE

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17
Dong-a Pencil

17
Dowa IP Creation

17
Digital 14 ◀

17

What this shows Digital holds 17 patents at rank #16,728, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Digital

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,728 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Digital's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 35th percentile higher than 35% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2020–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Digital 14 LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	5	29.4%
2021	6	35.3%
2022	2	11.8%
2023	4	23.5%

Which technologies does Digital 14 LLC patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 14

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

G09C - Ciphering OR Deciphering Apparatus FOR Cryptographic OR Other Purposes Involving THE Need FOR Secrecy 1

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 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Digital 14 LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Digital 14 LLC's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 82.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #16,731 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Digital 14 LLC against Decor Grates Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.7/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.