Where does Echostar Broadcasting Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Echostar Broadcasting Corporation ranks #35,112 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 Echostar Broadcasting Corporation hold?

Echostar Broadcasting Corporation holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Echostar Broadcasting Corporation's Innovation Score?

Echostar Broadcasting Corporation has an Innovation Score of 27.7 out of 100 (25th 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 Echostar Broadcasting Corporation focus on?

Echostar Broadcasting Corporation's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 7 patents, ranking #1,686 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Echostar Broadcasting Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Echostar Broadcasting Corporation's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Echostar Broadcasting Corporation's patents?

Echostar Broadcasting Corporation's patents average 18.6 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 Echostar Broadcasting Corporation 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

Echostar Broadcasting Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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, Echostar ranks #35,112 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 7 technology areas.

#35,112
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 25th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.7/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R35112 · US Corporation #35,112 · 7 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #35,112/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Earthclean
CPC-NARROW H04N · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Earthclean 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 Echostar’s 27.7 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 7.2 pts (26%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 9.4 pts (34%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (40%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Echostar Broadcasting · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Echostar's Innovation Score is 27.7/100 (25th 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 Echostar?

Each dot is one of Echostar’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). Echostar’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Echostar's grants concentrate

Echostar Broadcasting Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Echostar sits between Earthclean LLC and Ecna, LLC.

Earthclean

7
Easy-do Products

7
EBM Incorporated

7
ECE

7
Eckerle

7
ECM Industries

7
ECM

7
Ecna

7
Echostar Broadcas… ◀

7

What this shows Echostar holds 7 patents at rank #35,098, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Echostar

By rank, the assignees closest to #35,098 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Echostar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 25th percentile higher than 25% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Echostar Broadcasting Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	28.6%
2016	1	14.3%
2017	2	28.6%
2018	2	28.6%

Which technologies does Echostar Broadcasting Corporation patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 7

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 6

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

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 3

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 3

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

Top 7 of 7 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

Echostar Broadcasting Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Echostar Broadcasting Corporation's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #35,112 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Echostar Broadcasting Corporation against Earthclean LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.7/100 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

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