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Foundry Networks, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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, Foundry ranks #15,289 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 3 technology areas.

#15,289
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
27th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.5/100)
20.1
avg claims per patent
-100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15289 · US Corporation #15,289 · 19 grants

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

  • GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
  • MID-PACK #15,289/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Fidessa Trading UK
  • CPC-NARROW H04L · 3 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 28.5/100
  • CLAIMS-DENSE 20.1 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
  • VEL-DROP -100% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fidessa Trading UK Limited (±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 Foundry’s 28.5 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Foundry

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

score

What this shows Foundry's Innovation Score is 28.5/100 (27th 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.

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

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Foundry?

Each dot is one of Foundry’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). Foundry’s own 20.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Foundry vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 18.918.91919.1 51015202530 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Fidessa Trading UK Limited - 19, 17.05Fidessa Trading UKFiretide, Inc. - 19, 20.68FiretideFives Stein - 19, 13.32Fives SteinForage Innovations BV - 19, 15.68Forage Innovation…Freie UNIVERSITÄT Berlin - 19, 14.95Freie UniversitÄT…Fresca Medical, Inc. - 19, 10.47Fresca MedicalFujian Sanan Sino-science Photobiotech Co., Ltd. - 19, 12.79Fujian Sanan Sino…Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics, Inc. - 19, 28.63Fujifilm Cellular…Foundry Networks, LLC - 19, 20.05Foundry Networks
Foundry vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Foundry's grants concentrate

Foundry Networks, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 94.7% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Foundry sits between Fidessa Trading UK Limited and Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics, Inc..

Who files at Foundry's volume?

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

patents

What this shows Foundry holds 19 patents at rank #15,274, 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 Foundry

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,274 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Foundry's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 27th percentile higher than 27% of 49,997 US assignees

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 · 2015–2017

Grants by year

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

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Foundry Networks, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 9 47.4%
2016 9 47.4%
2017 1 5.3%

Which technologies does Foundry Networks, LLC patent most?

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Foundry Networks, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Foundry Networks, LLC's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 94.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
  • Ranked #15,289 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Foundry Networks, LLC against Fidessa Trading UK Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 28.5/100 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

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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

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.