Where does InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS ranks #2,063 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 InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS hold?

InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS holds 192 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS's Innovation Score?

InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS has an Innovation Score of 63.5 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS focus on?

InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 157 patents, ranking #144 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

Is InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS's recent grant velocity is +694% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS's patents?

InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS's patents average 18.4 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS

Q: How is the InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS 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 PatentsView assignee record - 192 granted patents across 37 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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, Interdigital ranks #2,063 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 192 patents across 37 technology areas.

#2,063
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.5/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +694%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2063 · Foreign Corporation #2,063 · 192 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 192 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,063/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Appotronics
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 37 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +694% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Appotronics Corporation Limited (±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 Interdigital’s 63.5 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 18.2 pts (29%) Velocity 12.7 pts (20%) Breadth 21.5 pts (34%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Iowa State Universit… · near

63
Seoul Semiconductor · near

63
InterDigital… · this assignee

63
KAO · near

63
Tianjin University · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Interdigital's Innovation Score is 63.5/100 (top 2% 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 Interdigital?

Each dot is one of Interdigital’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). Interdigital’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Interdigital's grants concentrate

InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (45 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2018. By volume, Interdigital sits between The Governors of the University of Alberta and Safran Helicopter Engines.

Interdigital's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS moved from 54 to 103 grants (1.91x 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 #238. See the growth leaderboard.

The Governors of…

193
Zeno Semiconductor

193
Appotronics

192
FMC

192
Line

192
Opple Lighting

192
Quantum

192
Safran Helicopter…

192
Interdigital Madi… ◀

192

What this shows InterDigital holds 192 patents at rank #2,063, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near InterDigital

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,063 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for InterDigital, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), InterDigital ranks #144 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Tianjin University 63 Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 63 Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. 63 KAO Corporation 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.4 here).

Tusimple, Inc. 18.4 avg Smartsky Networks LLC 18.4 avg Celgene Quanticel Research, Inc. 18.4 avg Orbital Research Inc. 18.4 avg

Interdigital's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	4	2.1%
2019	14	7.3%
2020	13	6.8%
2021	27	14.1%
2022	27	14.1%
2023	31	16.1%
2024	45	23.4%
2025partial year	31	16.1%

Which technologies does InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 157

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 29

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 17

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 15

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 15

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 6

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 5

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 5

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 2

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 2

H03G - Control OF Amplification 2

Top 15 of 37 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

InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 81.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #2,063 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS against The Governors of the University of Alberta, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.5/100 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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