Where does FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC ranks #16,809 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 FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC hold?

FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2021, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC's Innovation Score?

FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC has an Innovation Score of 35.0 out of 100 (49th 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 FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC focus on?

FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 13 patents, ranking #1,062 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC's recent grant velocity is +13% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC's patents?

FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC's patents average 29.1 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 FOX Broadcasting Company, 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

FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2021. 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, FOX ranks #16,809 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 8 technology areas.

#16,809
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 49th percentile
by Innovation Score (35.0/100): 29.1
avg claims per patent: +13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16809 · US Corporation #16,809 · 17 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,809/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Faxitron Bioptics
CPC-NARROW H04N · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 29.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Faxitron Bioptics, 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 FOX’s 35.0 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 10.0 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.0 pts (29%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (43%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
FOX Broadcasting · this assignee

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows FOX's Innovation Score is 35.0/100 (49th 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 FOX?

Each dot is one of FOX’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). FOX’s own 29.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where FOX's grants concentrate

FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 76.5% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (5 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, FOX sits between Flir Commercial Systems, Inc. and FemtoMetrix, Inc..

Flir Commercial S…

17
Flir Systems Trad…

17
Food Equipment

17
Forta

17
Fuse

17
FXS Ventures

17
Faxitron Bioptics

17
Femtometrix

17
FOX Broadcasting ◀

17

What this shows FOX holds 17 patents at rank #16,803, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near FOX

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,803 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

FOX's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 49th percentile higher than 49% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	11.8%
2018	2	11.8%
2019	4	23.5%
2020	4	23.5%
2021	5	29.4%

Which technologies does FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 13

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

H04H - Broadcast Communication 5

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

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

FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 76.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #16,809 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare FOX Broadcasting Company, LLC against Flir Commercial Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.0/100 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.