Where does Marvell International Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Marvell International Ltd. ranks #287 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 Marvell International Ltd. hold?

Marvell International Ltd. holds 1,491 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 81 technology areas.

What is Marvell International Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Marvell International Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 61.8 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Marvell International Ltd. focus on?

Marvell International Ltd.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 565 patents, ranking #93 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 81 CPC subclasses total.

Is Marvell International Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Marvell International Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -97% 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 Marvell International Ltd.'s patents?

Marvell International Ltd.'s patents average 19.2 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 Marvell International Ltd. 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 Foreign Corporation

Marvell International Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,491 granted patents across 81 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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, Marvell ranks #287 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,491 patents across 81 technology areas.

#287
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.8/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: -97%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R287 · Foreign Corporation #287 · 1,491 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.5K grants
TOP-DECILE #287/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shimano
CPC-WIDE H04L · 81 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -97% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shimano Inc. (±5 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 Marvell’s 61.8 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 25.2 pts (41%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ebara · near

62
Ventana Medical… · near

62
Caci —Federal · near

62
Marvell International · this assignee

62
Woodward · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Marvell's Innovation Score is 61.8/100 (top 3% 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 Marvell?

Each dot is one of Marvell’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). Marvell’s own 19.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Marvell's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Marvell International Ltd. received 50 grants versus 1,441 in 2015–2019 (-97% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 576 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 1. Lead class H04L accounts for 37.9% of the portfolio across 81 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Accenture Global Solutions Limited (#283) and Nanya Technology Corporation (#291).

Marvell's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Marvell International Ltd. moved from 195 to 1 grants (0.01x 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 #3,294. See the growth leaderboard.

Accenture Global…

1,520
Panasonic Holdings

1,518
Sun Patent Trust

1,507
Shimano

1,496
Marvell Internati… ◀

1,491
Altria Client Ser…

1,483
Jpmorgan Chase Ba…

1,478
Lockheed Martin

1,464
Nanya Technology

1,461

What this shows Marvell holds 1,491 patents at rank #287, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Marvell

By rank, the assignees closest to #287 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Marvell, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Marvell ranks #93 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Caci, Inc.—Federal 62 Ebara Corporation 62 Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. 62 Woodward, Inc. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.2 here).

Cisco Technology, Inc. 19.2 avg Adeia Guides Inc. 19.2 avg Cox Communications, Inc. 19.2 avg Z124 19.2 avg

Marvell's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

View data table

Marvell International Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	576	38.6%
2016	328	22.0%
2017	231	15.5%
2018	160	10.7%
2019	146	9.8%
2020	48	3.2%
2021	1	0.1%
2023	1	0.1%

Which technologies does Marvell International Ltd. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 565

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 378

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 325

H04B - Transmission 273

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 133

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 121

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 110

G11C - Static Stores 70

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 61

H04J - Multiplex Communication 54

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 39

H03K - Pulse Technique 37

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 34

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 29

H03F - Amplifiers 25

Top 15 of 81 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

Marvell International Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Marvell International Ltd.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 37.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #287 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Marvell International Ltd. against Accenture Global Solutions Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.8/100 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

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