Where does Ixia rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ixia ranks #3,134 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 Ixia hold?

Ixia holds 120 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Ixia's Innovation Score?

Ixia has an Innovation Score of 43.5 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ixia focus on?

Ixia's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 89 patents, ranking #421 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ixia's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ixia'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 Ixia's patents?

Ixia's patents average 19.8 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 Ixia 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

Ixia

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 120 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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, Ixia ranks #3,134 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 120 patents across 18 technology areas.

#3,134
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.5/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3134 · US Corporation #3,134 · 120 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 120 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,134/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Edwards Japan
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Edwards Japan 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 Ixia’s 43.5 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 16.6 pts (38%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 15.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Butamax Advanced… · near

43
Covaris · near

43
Cyberdyne · near

43
Ixia · this assignee

43
Pro Quick Draw · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ixia's Innovation Score is 43.5/100 (top 28% 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 Ixia?

Each dot is one of Ixia’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). Ixia’s own 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ixia's grants concentrate

Ixia is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 74.2% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (50 grants) versus a trough of 34 in 2016. By volume, Ixia sits between Edwards Japan Limited and Mythical, Inc..

Edwards Japan

120
GRG Banking Equip…

120
Guardant Health

120
Guest Tek Interac…

120
K-tronics (Suzhou…

120
Linak A/S

120
Monash University

120
Mythical

120
Ixia ◀

120

What this shows Ixia holds 120 patents at rank #3,134, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ixia

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,134 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ixia, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Ixia ranks #421 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Covaris, LLC 43 Cyberdyne Inc. 43 Pro Quick Draw LLC 43 Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.8 here).

Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. 19.8 avg Middle Chart, LLC 19.8 avg Empire Technology Development LLC 19.8 avg Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. 19.8 avg

Ixia's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ixia patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	36	30.0%
2016	34	28.3%
2017	50	41.7%

Which technologies does Ixia patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 89

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 26

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 22

H04B - Transmission 15

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 3

H04M - Telephonic Communication 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

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 2

H04Q - Selecting 2

G11C - Static Stores 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

H04J - Multiplex Communication 2

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 1

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Ixia's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ixia's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 74.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #3,134 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ixia against Edwards Japan Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.5/100 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

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.