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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd. ranks #3,601 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 TLV Ltd. hold?

Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd. holds 102 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 13 technology areas.

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

Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 39.6 out of 100 (top 38% 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 TLV Ltd. focus on?

Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 94 patents, ranking #406 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

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

Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +0% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd.'s patents average 17.7 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 TLV 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 TLV Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 102 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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 #3,601 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 102 patents across 13 technology areas.

#3,601
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.6/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3601 · Foreign Corporation #3,601 · 102 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 102 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,601/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Inficon
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Inficon AG (±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 Mellanox’s 39.6 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 16.0 pts (40%) Velocity 0.3 pts (1%) Breadth 12.7 pts (32%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Retailmenot · near

40
Mellanox TLV · this assignee

40
Metawater · near

40
Taiwan FU Hsing… · near

40
Vaccinex · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mellanox's Innovation Score is 39.6/100 (top 38% 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 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.5 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.

Where Mellanox's grants concentrate

Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 92.2% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (26 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Mellanox sits between Inficon AG and Sagem Defense Securite.

Mellanox's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd. moved from 73 to 3 grants (0.04x 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 #3,242. See the growth leaderboard.

Inficon

102
Infineum Internat…

102
Kakao

102
Kymab

102
Nisshin Steel

102
Ormco

102
Peking University…

102
Sagem Defense Sec…

102
Mellanox TLV ◀

102

What this shows Mellanox holds 102 patents at rank #3,601, 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 #3,601 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 #406 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Metawater Co., Ltd. 40 Taiwan FU Hsing Industrial Co., Ltd. 40 Retailmenot, Inc. 40 Vaccinex, Inc. 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. 17.7 avg NovAtel Inc. 17.7 avg Beijing Youzhuju Network Technology Co., Ltd. 17.7 avg Cypress Semiconductor Corporation 17.7 avg

Mellanox's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 38% higher than 62% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

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 TLV Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	2.0%
2016	3	2.9%
2017	5	4.9%
2018	16	15.7%
2019	25	24.5%
2020	26	25.5%
2021	22	21.6%
2022	3	2.9%

Which technologies does Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 94

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 22

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 5

H04B - Transmission 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

H04J - Multiplex Communication 2

H04Q - Selecting 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

G11C - Static Stores 1

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

Top 13 of 13 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 TLV Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 92.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #3,601 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd. against Inficon AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.6/100 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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