Where does iBiquity Digital Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), iBiquity Digital Corporation ranks #5,290 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 iBiquity Digital Corporation hold?

iBiquity Digital Corporation holds 65 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is iBiquity Digital Corporation's Innovation Score?

iBiquity Digital Corporation has an Innovation Score of 42.8 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does iBiquity Digital Corporation focus on?

iBiquity Digital Corporation's top technology area is H04H (Broadcast Communication) with 50 patents, ranking #12 of 414 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is iBiquity Digital Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

iBiquity Digital Corporation's recent grant velocity is -46% 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 iBiquity Digital Corporation's patents?

iBiquity Digital Corporation's patents average 22.4 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 iBiquity Digital 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

iBiquity Digital Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 65 granted patents across 14 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: H04H (Broadcast Communication).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ibiquity ranks #5,290 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 65 patents across 14 technology areas.

#5,290
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.8/100): 22.4
avg claims per patent: -46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5290 · US Corporation #5,290 · 65 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 65 grants
UPPER-Q #5,290/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH thyssenkrupp Bilstein
CPC-FOCUS H04H · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: thyssenkrupp Bilstein GmbH (±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 ibiquity’s 42.8 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 14.5 pts (34%) Velocity 1.7 pts (4%) Breadth 13.2 pts (31%) Claim depth 13.5 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Baylor Research… · near

43
iBiquity Digital · this assignee

43
InterDesign · near

43
Prologium Technology · near

43
Uhlmann Pac-systeme… · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ibiquity's Innovation Score is 42.8/100 (top 30% 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 ibiquity?

Each dot is one of ibiquity’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). ibiquity’s own 22.4 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.

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

Where ibiquity's grants concentrate

iBiquity Digital Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 76.9% of grants classified under H04H (Broadcast Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, ibiquity sits between Vayyar Imaging Ltd. and Biontech SE.

ibiquity's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, iBiquity Digital Corporation moved from 24 to 6 grants (0.25x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Vayyar Imaging

65
Vito

65
WHP Workflow Solu…

65
Wockhardt

65
thyssenkrupp Bils…

65
ibiquity Digital ◀

65
Alma Mater Studio…

64
Beijing Geekplus…

64
Biontech SE

64

What this shows iBiquity holds 65 patents at rank #5,340, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near iBiquity

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,340 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04H (Broadcast Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for iBiquity, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04H (Broadcast Communication), iBiquity ranks #12 of 414 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Baylor Research Institute 43 Uhlmann Pac-systeme GMBH & Co. KG 43 InterDesign, Inc. 43 Prologium Technology Co., Ltd. 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.4 here).

Marathon Petroleum Company LP 22.4 avg Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd 22.4 avg NthDegree Technologies Worldwide Inc 22.4 avg Cylance Inc. 22.4 avg

ibiquity's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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.

View data table

iBiquity Digital Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	14	21.5%
2016	6	9.2%
2017	9	13.8%
2018	4	6.2%
2019	8	12.3%
2020	10	15.4%
2021	6	9.2%
2022	3	4.6%
2023	2	3.1%
2024	1	1.5%
2025partial year	2	3.1%

Which technologies does iBiquity Digital Corporation patent most?

H04H - Broadcast Communication 50

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 27

H04B - Transmission 18

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 8

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 8

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 8

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

H03G - Control OF Amplification 2

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 2

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 1

Top 14 of 14 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

iBiquity Digital Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

iBiquity Digital Corporation's lead technology class is H04H (Broadcast Communication), 76.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04H
Ranked #5,290 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare iBiquity Digital Corporation against Vayyar Imaging Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.8/100 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.