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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dish Technologies L.L.C. ranks #884 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 Technologies L.L.C. hold?

Dish Technologies L.L.C. holds 512 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 59 technology areas.

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

Dish Technologies L.L.C. has an Innovation Score of 60.8 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 Dish Technologies L.L.C. focus on?

Dish Technologies L.L.C.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 370 patents, ranking #76 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 59 CPC subclasses total.

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

Dish Technologies L.L.C.'s recent grant velocity is +36% 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 Dish Technologies L.L.C.'s patents?

Dish Technologies L.L.C.'s patents average 17.9 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 Technologies 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 Technologies L.L.C.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 512 granted patents across 59 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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, Dish ranks #884 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 512 patents across 59 technology areas.

#884
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.8/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: +36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R884 · US Corporation #884 · 512 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 512 grants
TOP-DECILE #884/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Emory University
CPC-WIDE H04N · 59 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Emory University (±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 60.8 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 (36%) Velocity 3.5 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cognex · near

61
Dish L L C · this assignee

61
Stoneridge · near

61
DRÄGERWERK & Kgaa · near

61
United States of… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dish's Innovation Score is 60.8/100 (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 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 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.5 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 Technologies L.L.C. received 284 grants versus 209 in 2015–2019 (+36% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 128 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 42. Lead class H04N accounts for 72.3% of the portfolio across 59 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Oticon A/S (#880) and Nicoventures Trading Limited (#888).

Dish's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Dish Technologies L.L.C. moved from 270 to 142 grants (0.53x 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 #2,630. See the growth leaderboard.

Oticon A/S

516
Board OF Trustees…

515
Cfph

514
Bayer Intellectua…

513
Emory University

512
Kennametal

512
Dish L L C ◀

512
Jiangnan Universi…

511
Nicoventures Trad…

511

What this shows Dish holds 512 patents at rank #884, 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 #884 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 #76 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Stoneridge, Inc. 61 United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA 61 Cognex Corporation 61 DRÄGERWERK AG & Co. Kgaa 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.9 here).

Gen-probe Incorporated 17.9 avg Cummins Emission Solutions Inc. 17.9 avg Raytheon Company 17.9 avg Infineon Technologies Dresden GmbH & Co. KG 17.9 avg

Dish's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 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 · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Dish Technologies L.L.C. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	81	15.8%
2019	128	25.0%
2020	81	15.8%
2021	61	11.9%
2022	57	11.1%
2023	42	8.2%
2024	43	8.4%
2025partial year	19	3.7%

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

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 370

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

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 127

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 48

H04B - Transmission 34

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 31

H04H - Broadcast Communication 22

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 21

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 20

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 19

H04M - Telephonic Communication 18

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 17

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 15

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 12

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 11

Top 15 of 59 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 Technologies L.L.C.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dish Technologies L.L.C.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 72.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #884 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dish Technologies L.L.C. against Oticon A/S, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.8/100 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.