Where does General Instrument Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), General Instrument Corporation ranks #18,658 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 General Instrument Corporation hold?

General Instrument Corporation holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2015, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is General Instrument Corporation's Innovation Score?

General Instrument Corporation has an Innovation Score of 29.9 out of 100 (32nd 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 General Instrument Corporation focus on?

General Instrument Corporation's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 8 patents, ranking #1,527 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is General Instrument Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

General Instrument 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 General Instrument Corporation's patents?

General Instrument Corporation's patents average 15.3 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 General Instrument 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

General Instrument Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 10 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, General ranks #18,658 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 10 technology areas.

#18,658
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 32nd percentile
by Innovation Score (29.9/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18658 · US Corporation #18,658 · 15 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,658/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gateway Plastics
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gateway Plastics, 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 General’s 29.9 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 9.6 pts (32%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 11.2 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
General Instrument · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows General's Innovation Score is 29.9/100 (32nd 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 General?

Each dot is one of General’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). General’s own 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where General's grants concentrate

General Instrument Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 53.3% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). By volume, General sits between GV Engineering GMBH and Gigavac, LLC.

GV Engineering

15
Gateway Plastics

15
Gelesis

15
Gen-y Creations

15
Genocea Bioscienc…

15
Genova

15
Genpak

15
Gigavac

15
General Instrument ◀

15

What this shows General holds 15 patents at rank #18,675, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near General

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,675 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

General's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 32nd percentile higher than 32% 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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General Instrument Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	100.0%

Which technologies does General Instrument Corporation patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 8

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

H04B - Transmission 1

H04J - Multiplex Communication 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, 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

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

Top 10 of 10 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

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

General Instrument Corporation's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 53.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #18,658 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare General Instrument Corporation against GV Engineering GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.9/100 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.