USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Flash Networks, Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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).

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Flash ranks #14,617 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 7 technology areas.

#14,617
of 50,000 US assignees by volume
Top 56%
by Innovation Score (33.2/100)
19.4
avg claims per patent
-33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14617 · Foreign Corporation #14,617 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
  • MID-PACK #14,617/50,000
  • PHOTO-FINISH Feniex Industries
  • CPC-NARROW H04L · 7 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 33.2/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DOWN -33% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Feniex Industries (±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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Flash

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Flash Networks, Ltd stamps GRANTS-SMALL, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-NARROW, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-DOWN, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #14,617 of 50,000; Innovation Score 33.2/100 sits in the top 56% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Feniex Industries (±0 grants).

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Portfolio overview

Flash Networks, Ltd has been granted 20 US utility patents between 2015 and 2022, placing Flash Networks, Ltd at #14,617 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 7 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 19.4 claims per patent with primary concentration in H04L (TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION). As a Foreign Corporation, Flash Networks, Ltd is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Flash sits between Feniex Industries (20 patents, rank #14,618) and Fractyl Health, Inc. (20 patents, rank #14,626) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 33.2/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 8 grants, compared with 12 in the 2015–2019 window, a -33% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Flash Networks, Ltd's 19.4 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 7 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Who files at Flash's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Flash holds 20 patents at rank #14,622, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Flash

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,622 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Flash's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 Top 56% higher than 44% of 50,000 US assignees

0–10: 687 US assignees (1%). Below this entry. 10–20: 2,527 US assignees (5%). Below this entry. 20–30: 13,162 US assignees (26%). Below this entry. 30–40: 15,294 US assignees (31%). This entry sits in this band. 40–50: 11,491 US assignees (23%). Above this entry. 50–60: 5,058 US assignees (10%). Above this entry. 60–70: 1,537 US assignees (3%). Above this entry. 70–80: 234 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 80–90: 10 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 90–100: 0 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

View data table
Flash Networks, Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 4 20.0%
2016 2 10.0%
2017 4 20.0%
2019 2 10.0%
2020 6 30.0%
2022 2 10.0%

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#14,617

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

33.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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.