Where does Emulex Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Emulex Corporation ranks #12,427 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 Emulex Corporation hold?

Emulex Corporation holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2015, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Emulex Corporation's Innovation Score?

Emulex Corporation has an Innovation Score of 35.1 out of 100 (top 50% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Emulex Corporation focus on?

Emulex Corporation's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 16 patents, ranking #1,649 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Emulex Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Emulex 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 Emulex Corporation's patents?

Emulex Corporation's patents average 23.3 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 Emulex 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

Emulex Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2015. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Emulex ranks #12,427 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 8 technology areas.

#12,427
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 50%
by Innovation Score (35.1/100): 23.3
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12427 · US Corporation #12,427 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
UPPER-Q #12,427/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dow Pharmaceutical…
CPC-NARROW H04L · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dow Pharmaceutical Sciences, 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 Emulex’s 35.1 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 11.1 pts (32%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.0 pts (28%) Claim depth 14.0 pts (40%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Emulex · this assignee

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Emulex's Innovation Score is 35.1/100 (top 50% 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 Emulex?

Each dot is one of Emulex’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). Emulex’s own 23.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Emulex's grants concentrate

Emulex Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). By volume, Emulex sits between Dow Pharmaceutical Sciences, Inc. and Ersa GMBH.

Dow Pharmaceutica…

24
Dutch Clips

24
Dyno Nobel

24
Echosens

24
Encapsys

24
Ensco

24
Entro Industries

24
Ersa

24
Emulex ◀

24

What this shows Emulex holds 24 patents at rank #12,425, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Emulex

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,425 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Emulex's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 50% higher than 50% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 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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Emulex Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	24	100.0%

Which technologies does Emulex Corporation patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 16

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 13

H04Q - Selecting 4

H04B - Transmission 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

G11C - Static Stores 1

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

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 1

Top 8 of 8 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

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

Emulex Corporation's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #12,427 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Emulex Corporation against Dow Pharmaceutical Sciences, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.1/100 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

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.