Where does Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. ranks #587 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 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. hold?

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. holds 766 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 67 technology areas.

What is Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 72.1 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. focus on?

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 383 patents, ranking #123 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 67 CPC subclasses total.

Is Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +106% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.'s patents?

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.'s patents average 19.6 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 Mellanox Technologies, 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

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 766 granted patents across 67 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mellanox ranks #587 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 766 patents across 67 technology areas.

#587
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (72.1/100): 19.6
avg claims per patent: +106%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R587 · Foreign Corporation #587 · 766 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 766 grants
TOP-DECILE #587/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cochlear
CPC-WIDE H04L · 67 areas
INNOV-STRONG 72.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +106% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cochlear Limited (±2 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 Mellanox’s 72.1 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 22.9 pts (32%) Velocity 12.3 pts (17%) Breadth 25.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Doosan Enerbility · near

72
Mellanox · this assignee

72
STMicroelectronics · near

72
Bytedance · near

72
Western Digital · near

72
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mellanox's Innovation Score is 72.1/100 (top 1% 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 Mellanox?

Each dot is one of Mellanox’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). Mellanox’s own 19.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Mellanox's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. received 431 grants versus 209 in 2015–2019 (+106% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 140 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 20. Lead class H04L accounts for 50% of the portfolio across 67 subclasses. Volume neighbours: GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. (#583) and adidas AG (#591).

Mellanox's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. moved from 176 to 326 grants (1.85x 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 #255. See the growth leaderboard.

Globalfoundries S…

769
Janssen Pharmaceu…

769
Medtronic Minimed

769
Cochlear

768
Mellanox ◀

766
Mediatek Singapor…

761
Hanon Systems

758
Pacesetter

754
adidas

754

What this shows Mellanox holds 766 patents at rank #587, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mellanox

By rank, the assignees closest to #587 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mellanox, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Mellanox ranks #123 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (72 here).

Doosan Enerbility Co., Ltd. 72 STMicroelectronics SA 72 Bytedance Inc. 72 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. 72

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.6 here).

Oath Inc. 19.6 avg Altera Corporation 19.6 avg UAB 360 IT 19.6 avg Netronome Systems, Inc. 19.6 avg

Mellanox's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

72 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	29	3.8%
2016	20	2.6%
2017	33	4.3%
2018	56	7.3%
2019	71	9.3%
2020	61	8.0%
2021	44	5.7%
2022	62	8.1%
2023	124	16.2%
2024	140	18.3%
2025partial year	126	16.4%

Which technologies does Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 383

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 303

H04B - Transmission 71

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 64

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 41

H04J - Multiplex Communication 40

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 30

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 29

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 27

H04Q - Selecting 22

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 16

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 15

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 15

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 14

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 12

Top 15 of 67 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

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #587 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. against GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 72.1/100 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

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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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