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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Entropic Communications, LLC ranks #1,965 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 Entropic Communications, LLC hold?

Entropic Communications, LLC holds 204 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Entropic Communications, LLC's Innovation Score?

Entropic Communications, LLC has an Innovation Score of 51.7 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Entropic Communications, LLC focus on?

Entropic Communications, LLC's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 113 patents, ranking #346 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

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

Entropic Communications, LLC's recent grant velocity is -72% 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 Entropic Communications, LLC's patents?

Entropic Communications, LLC's patents average 19.6 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 Entropic 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

Entropic Communications, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 204 granted patents across 23 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Entropic ranks #1,965 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 204 patents across 23 technology areas.

#1,965
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.7/100): 19.6
avg claims per patent: -72%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1965 · US Corporation #1,965 · 204 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 204 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,965/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Crocs
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -72% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Crocs, 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 Entropic’s 51.7 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 18.4 pts (36%) Velocity 4.6 pts (9%) Breadth 17.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bobst MEX · near

52
Entropic Communicati… · this assignee

52
Federal Signal · near

52
Synamedia · near

52
Feitian · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Entropic's Innovation Score is 51.7/100 (top 11% 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 Entropic?

Each dot is one of Entropic’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). Entropic’s own 19.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Entropic's grants concentrate

Entropic Communications, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 55.4% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (35 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2021. By volume, Entropic sits between Beijing Voyager Technology Co., Ltd. and Lummus Technology LLC.

Entropic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Entropic Communications, LLC moved from 42 to 29 grants (0.69x 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 #2,183. See the growth leaderboard.

Beijing Voyager T…

205
Heraeus Deutschla…

205
Panasonic Automot…

205
Crocs

204
Essilor Internati…

204
Heartware

204
Kateeva

204
Lummus Technology

204
Entropic Communic… ◀

204

What this shows Entropic holds 204 patents at rank #1,965, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Entropic

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,965 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Entropic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Entropic ranks #346 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Synamedia Limited 52 Federal Signal Corporation 52 Feitian Technologies Co., Ltd. 52 Bobst MEX SA 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.6 here).

Inmar Clearing, Inc. 19.6 avg Roche Glycart AG 19.6 avg Capstan Ag Systems, Inc. 19.6 avg Ferroelectric Memory GmbH 19.6 avg

Entropic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% 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

Entropic Communications, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	32	15.7%
2016	28	13.7%
2017	35	17.2%
2018	33	16.2%
2019	27	13.2%
2020	10	4.9%
2021	5	2.5%
2022	6	2.9%
2023	13	6.4%
2024	10	4.9%
2025partial year	5	2.5%

Which technologies does Entropic Communications, LLC patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 113

H04B - Transmission 75

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 56

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 26

H04H - Broadcast Communication 20

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 20

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 19

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 15

H03G - Control OF Amplification 10

H03F - Amplifiers 8

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 7

H03B - Generation OF Oscillations, Directly OR BY Frequency-changing, BY Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate IN A Non-switching MANNER; Generation OF Noise BY Such Circuits 6

H03K - Pulse Technique 5

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 4

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 3

Top 15 of 23 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

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

Entropic Communications, LLC's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 55.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #1,965 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Entropic Communications, LLC against Beijing Voyager Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.7/100 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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