Where does Dish Network L.L.C. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dish Network L.L.C. ranks #878 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 Dish Network L.L.C. hold?

Dish Network L.L.C. holds 516 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 79 technology areas.

What is Dish Network L.L.C.'s Innovation Score?

Dish Network L.L.C. has an Innovation Score of 70.9 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 Dish Network L.L.C. focus on?

Dish Network L.L.C.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 290 patents, ranking #91 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 79 CPC subclasses total.

Is Dish Network L.L.C.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dish Network L.L.C.'s recent grant velocity is +893% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Dish Network L.L.C.'s patents?

Dish Network L.L.C.'s patents average 18.3 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 Dish Network L.L.C. 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

Dish Network L.L.C.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 516 granted patents across 79 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dish ranks #878 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 516 patents across 79 technology areas.

#878
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.9/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: +893%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R878 · US Corporation #878 · 516 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 516 grants
TOP-DECILE #878/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Graphic Packaging…
CPC-WIDE H04N · 79 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +893% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Graphic Packaging International, LLC (±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 Dish’s 70.9 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 21.6 pts (30%) Velocity 13.4 pts (19%) Breadth 25.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fraunhofer-Gesellsch… · near

71
Analog Devices… · near

71
Dish Network L L C · this assignee

71
Covidien · near

71
Honeywell Internatio… · near

71
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dish's Innovation Score is 70.9/100 (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 Dish?

Each dot is one of Dish’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). Dish’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Dish's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Dish Network L.L.C. received 397 grants versus 40 in 2015–2019 (+893% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 102 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 4. Lead class H04N accounts for 56.2% of the portfolio across 79 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Daicel Corporation (#874) and Cfph, LLC (#882).

Dish's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Dish Network L.L.C. moved from 136 to 273 grants (2.01x 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 #211. See the growth leaderboard.

Daicel

517
Graco Minnesota

517
The Florida Inter…

517
Xi'an Zhongxing N…

517
Graphic Packaging…

516
Oticon A/S

516
Dish Network L L C ◀

516
Board OF Trustees…

515
Cfph

514

What this shows Dish holds 516 patents at rank #878, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dish

By rank, the assignees closest to #878 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dish, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Dish ranks #91 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (71 here).

Analog Devices International Unlimited Company 71 Covidien LP 71 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. 71 Honeywell International Inc. 71

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.3 here).

Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. 18.3 avg Pearson Education, Inc. 18.3 avg Plume Design, Inc. 18.3 avg Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research 18.3 avg

Dish's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

71 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

Dish Network L.L.C. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	2.5%
2016	6	1.2%
2017	4	0.8%
2018	5	1.0%
2019	12	2.3%
2020	51	9.9%
2021	73	14.1%
2022	70	13.6%
2023	101	19.6%
2024	102	19.8%
2025partial year	79	15.3%

Which technologies does Dish Network L.L.C. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 290

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 120

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 114

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 91

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 56

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 52

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 26

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 25

H04B - Transmission 21

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 20

H04M - Telephonic Communication 20

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 17

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 15

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 14

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 14

Top 15 of 79 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

Dish Network L.L.C.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dish Network L.L.C.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 56.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #878 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dish Network L.L.C. against Daicel Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.9/100 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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