Where does Discovery Communications, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Discovery Communications, LLC ranks #18,538 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 Discovery Communications, LLC hold?

Discovery Communications, LLC holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Discovery Communications, LLC's Innovation Score?

Discovery Communications, LLC has an Innovation Score of 37.2 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Discovery Communications, LLC focus on?

Discovery Communications, LLC's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 10 patents, ranking #1,288 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

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

Discovery Communications, LLC's recent grant velocity is +17% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

Discovery Communications, LLC's patents average 16.7 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 Discovery 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

Discovery Communications, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 6 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, Discovery ranks #18,538 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 6 technology areas.

#18,538
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.2/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: +17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18538 · US Corporation #18,538 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,538/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Datadog
CPC-NARROW H04N · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Datadog Inc. (±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 Discovery’s 37.2 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 9.6 pts (26%) Velocity 8.9 pts (24%) Breadth 8.7 pts (23%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (27%)

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What this shows Discovery's Innovation Score is 37.2/100 (top 44% 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 Discovery?

Each dot is one of Discovery’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). Discovery’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Discovery's grants concentrate

Discovery Communications, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Discovery sits between DataLase Ltd. and Dynamic Solutions Worldwide, LLC.

Discovery's three-year grant acceleration

Discovery Communications, LLC shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Datalase

15
Datadog

15
Delta Cycle

15
Delta Systems

15
Discovery Energy

15
Duvon

15
Dyna Image

15
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15
Discovery Communi… ◀

15

What this shows Discovery holds 15 patents at rank #18,549, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Discovery

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,549 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Discovery's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% 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.

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Discovery Communications, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	6.7%
2017	4	26.7%
2018	1	6.7%
2020	2	13.3%
2021	1	6.7%
2023	1	6.7%
2024	3	20.0%
2025partial year	2	13.3%

Which technologies does Discovery Communications, LLC patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

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 5

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

Top 6 of 6 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

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

Discovery Communications, LLC's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #18,538 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Discovery Communications, LLC against DataLase Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.2/100 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.