Where does Directv, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Directv, LLC ranks #942 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 Directv, LLC hold?

Directv, LLC holds 469 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 51 technology areas.

What is Directv, LLC's Innovation Score?

Directv, LLC has an Innovation Score of 60.1 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Directv, LLC focus on?

Directv, LLC's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 362 patents, ranking #77 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 51 CPC subclasses total.

Is Directv, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Directv, LLC's recent grant velocity is -70% 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 Directv, LLC's patents?

Directv, LLC's patents average 20.7 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 Directv, 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

Directv, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 469 granted patents across 51 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, Directv ranks #942 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 469 patents across 51 technology areas.

#942
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.1/100): 20.7
avg claims per patent: -70%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R942 · US Corporation #942 · 469 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 469 grants
TOP-DECILE #942/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nordson
CPC-WIDE H04N · 51 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -70% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nordson Corporation (±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 Directv’s 60.1 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 21.3 pts (35%) Velocity 1.5 pts (2%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 12.4 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Beijing University… · near

60
Directv · this assignee

60
National Institute… · near

60
ZKW Group · near

60
Square · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Directv's Innovation Score is 60.1/100 (top 3% 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 Directv?

Each dot is one of Directv’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). Directv’s own 20.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Directv's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Directv, LLC received 107 grants versus 361 in 2015–2019 (-70% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 79 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 5. Lead class H04N accounts for 77.2% of the portfolio across 51 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (#938) and Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd. (#946).

Directv's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Directv, LLC moved from 145 to 32 grants (0.22x 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 #3,072. See the growth leaderboard.

Memorial Sloan Ke…

473
Uatc

473
Trading Internati…

472
Adeia Guides

470
Nordson

469
Varian Semiconduc…

469
Directv ◀

469
Nanyang Technolog…

468
Ramot at Tel-aviv…

468

What this shows Directv holds 469 patents at rank #942, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Directv

By rank, the assignees closest to #942 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Directv, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Directv ranks #77 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

National Institute FOR Materials Science 60 ZKW Group GmbH 60 Beijing University OF Technology 60 Inc Square, Co., Ltd 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.7 here).

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 20.7 avg Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, USA, LLC 20.7 avg Stats LLC 20.7 avg Software GMBH 20.7 avg

Directv's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 3% higher than 97% 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

Directv, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	79	16.8%
2016	71	15.1%
2017	72	15.4%
2018	69	14.7%
2019	70	14.9%
2020	53	11.3%
2021	22	4.7%
2022	17	3.6%
2023	10	2.1%
2024	5	1.1%
2025partial year	1	0.2%

Which technologies does Directv, LLC patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 362

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 127

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 97

H04H - Broadcast Communication 55

H04B - Transmission 41

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 40

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 29

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 16

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 15

H04M - Telephonic Communication 13

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 12

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 10

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 10

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 9

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 8

Top 15 of 51 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

Directv, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Directv, LLC's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 77.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #942 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Directv, LLC against Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.1/100 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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