Where does Harmonic, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Harmonic, Inc. ranks #3,375 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 Harmonic, Inc. hold?

Harmonic, Inc. holds 110 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Harmonic, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Harmonic, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.1 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Harmonic, Inc. focus on?

Harmonic, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 57 patents, ranking #593 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

Is Harmonic, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Harmonic, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +24% 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 Harmonic, Inc.'s patents?

Harmonic, Inc.'s patents average 20.1 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 Harmonic, Inc. 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

Harmonic, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 110 granted patents across 24 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, Harmonic ranks #3,375 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 110 patents across 24 technology areas.

#3,375
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.1/100): 20.1
avg claims per patent: +24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3375 · US Corporation #3,375 · 110 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 110 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,375/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Experian Information…
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Experian Information Solutions, 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 Harmonic’s 50.1 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 16.3 pts (33%) Velocity 4.4 pts (9%) Breadth 17.3 pts (35%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AlphaSense Oy · near

50
GrafTech Internation… · near

50
Harmonic · this assignee

50
Nippon Soda · near

50
TA Instruments-Waters · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Harmonic's Innovation Score is 50.1/100 (top 13% 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 Harmonic?

Each dot is one of Harmonic’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). Harmonic’s own 20.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Harmonic's grants concentrate

Harmonic, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 51.8% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (18 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Harmonic sits between Experian Information Solutions, Inc. and OJI Holdings Corporation.

Harmonic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Harmonic, Inc. moved from 45 to 30 grants (0.67x 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 #2,258. See the growth leaderboard.

Experian Informat…

110
Flowserve Managem…

110
Fuelcell Energy

110
G D S P A

110
King's College Lo…

110
Kinze Manufacturi…

110
National Taipei U…

110
OJI Holdings

110
Harmonic ◀

110

What this shows Harmonic holds 110 patents at rank #3,375, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Harmonic

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,375 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Harmonic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Harmonic ranks #593 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. 50 GrafTech International Holdings Inc. 50 TA Instruments-Waters LLC 50 AlphaSense Oy 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.1 here).

D2L Corporation 20.1 avg Lumentum Operations LLC 20.1 avg Means Industries, Inc. 20.1 avg e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc. 20.1 avg

Harmonic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% 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.

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Harmonic, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	2.7%
2016	6	5.5%
2017	7	6.4%
2018	12	10.9%
2019	18	16.4%
2020	13	11.8%
2021	14	12.7%
2022	13	11.8%
2023	13	11.8%
2024	4	3.6%
2025partial year	7	6.4%

Which technologies does Harmonic, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 57

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 54

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 21

H04B - Transmission 18

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 7

H04H - Broadcast Communication 7

H03F - Amplifiers 7

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 6

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 5

H03G - Control OF Amplification 3

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 3

H04Q - Selecting 3

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 3

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 2

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 2

Top 15 of 24 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

Harmonic, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Harmonic, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 51.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #3,375 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Harmonic, Inc. against Experian Information Solutions, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.1/100 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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