Where does Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC ranks #4,953 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 Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC hold?

Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC holds 70 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC's Innovation Score?

Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC has an Innovation Score of 46.4 out of 100 (top 21% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC focus on?

Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 34 patents, ranking #514 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

Is Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC's recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC's patents?

Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC's patents average 23.2 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 Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 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

Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 70 granted patents across 25 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Intellectual ranks #4,953 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 70 patents across 25 technology areas.

#4,953
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 21%
by Innovation Score (46.4/100): 23.2
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4953 · US Corporation #4,953 · 70 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 70 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,953/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hi-lex
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hi-lex Corporation (±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 Intellectual’s 46.4 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 14.7 pts (32%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 17.7 pts (38%) Claim depth 13.9 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Core Wireless… · near

46
Intellectual… · this assignee

46
Jeld-wen · near

46
Pantech Wireless · near

46
StoreDot · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Intellectual's Innovation Score is 46.4/100 (top 21% 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 Intellectual?

Each dot is one of Intellectual’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). Intellectual’s own 23.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Intellectual's grants concentrate

Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 48.6% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (43 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Intellectual sits between Hi-lex Corporation and Largan Digital Co., Ltd..

Hi-lex

70
Hyundai Heavy Ind…

70
Industry-academia…

70
Integrated DNA

70
Johnson Health Te…

70
Krohne

70
Lantiq Beteiligun…

70
Largan Digital

70
Intellectual Vent… ◀

70

What this shows Intellectual holds 70 patents at rank #4,953, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Intellectual

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,953 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Intellectual, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Intellectual ranks #514 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Jeld-wen, Inc. 46 Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L. 46 StoreDot, Ltd. 46 Pantech Wireless, LLC 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.2 here).

Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC 23.2 avg Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. 23.3 avg Mftb Holdco, Inc. 23.3 avg Innova Electronics Corporation 23.2 avg

Intellectual's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 21% higher than 79% 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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Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	43	61.4%
2016	20	28.6%
2017	3	4.3%
2018	1	1.4%
2019	1	1.4%
2020	1	1.4%
2025partial year	1	1.4%

Which technologies does Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 34

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 34

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 11

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 7

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 7

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 4

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 4

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

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 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H04Q - Selecting 1

Top 15 of 25 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

Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 48.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #4,953 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC against Hi-lex Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.4/100 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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