Where does NBCUniversal Media, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), NBCUniversal Media, LLC ranks #2,694 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 NBCUniversal Media, LLC hold?

NBCUniversal Media, LLC holds 144 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is NBCUniversal Media, LLC's Innovation Score?

NBCUniversal Media, LLC has an Innovation Score of 53.2 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does NBCUniversal Media, LLC focus on?

NBCUniversal Media, LLC's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 81 patents, ranking #240 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

Is NBCUniversal Media, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

NBCUniversal Media, LLC's recent grant velocity is -6% 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 NBCUniversal Media, LLC's patents?

NBCUniversal Media, LLC's patents average 20.3 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 NBCUniversal Media, LLC 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

NBCUniversal Media, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 144 granted patents across 23 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nbcuniversal ranks #2,694 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 144 patents across 23 technology areas.

#2,694
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.2/100): 20.3
avg claims per patent: -6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2694 · US Corporation #2,694 · 144 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 144 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,694/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kodak Alaris
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kodak Alaris, LLC (±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 Nbcuniversal’s 53.2 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 17.2 pts (32%) Velocity 6.8 pts (13%) Breadth 17.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 12.2 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Essilor Internationa… · near

53
NBCUniversal Media · this assignee

53
Nippon Steel… · near

53
Safran Landing… · near

53
W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nbcuniversal's Innovation Score is 53.2/100 (top 9% 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 Nbcuniversal?

Each dot is one of Nbcuniversal’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). Nbcuniversal’s own 20.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nbcuniversal's grants concentrate

NBCUniversal Media, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 56.3% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (20 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2021. By volume, Nbcuniversal sits between Korea Aerospace Research Institute and Quantcast Corporation.

Nbcuniversal's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, NBCUniversal Media, LLC moved from 38 to 39 grants (1.03x 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 #1,115. See the growth leaderboard.

Korea Aerospace R…

144
Kodak Alaris

144
Melexis

144
Mitel Networks

144
Nidec Tosok

144
Pilkington Group

144
Qualcomm

144
Quantcast

144
Nbcuniversal Media ◀

144

What this shows NBCUniversal holds 144 patents at rank #2,694, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near NBCUniversal

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,694 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for NBCUniversal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), NBCUniversal ranks #240 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique) 53 Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd. 53 Nippon Steel Stainless Steel Corporation 53 W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbH 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.3 here).

Amyris, Inc. 20.3 avg National Oilwell DHT, L.P. 20.3 avg Qwest Communications International Inc. 20.3 avg Takara Bio USA, Inc. 20.3 avg

Nbcuniversal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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NBCUniversal Media, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	6.9%
2016	11	7.6%
2017	16	11.1%
2018	20	13.9%
2019	12	8.3%
2020	19	13.2%
2021	7	4.9%
2022	14	9.7%
2023	13	9.0%
2024	12	8.3%
2025partial year	10	6.9%

Which technologies does NBCUniversal Media, LLC patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 81

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 45

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 28

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 17

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 13

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

H04H - Broadcast Communication 12

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 11

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 9

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 7

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 7

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 6

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 5

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 4

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 4

Top 15 of 23 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

NBCUniversal Media, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

NBCUniversal Media, LLC's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 56.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #2,694 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare NBCUniversal Media, LLC against Korea Aerospace Research Institute, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.2/100 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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