Where does Netgear, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Netgear, Inc. ranks #1,970 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 Netgear, Inc. hold?

Netgear, Inc. holds 204 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 40 technology areas.

What is Netgear, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Netgear, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.4 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Netgear, Inc. focus on?

Netgear, Inc.'s top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 144 patents, ranking #160 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 40 CPC subclasses total.

Is Netgear, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Netgear, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -53% 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 Netgear, Inc.'s patents?

Netgear, Inc.'s patents average 19.3 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 Netgear, Inc. 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

Netgear, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 204 granted patents across 40 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: H04W (Wireless Communication Networks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Netgear ranks #1,970 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 204 patents across 40 technology areas.

#1,970
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.4/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: -53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1970 · US Corporation #1,970 · 204 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 204 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,970/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Essilor Internationa…
CPC-WIDE H04W · 40 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique) (±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 Netgear’s 54.4 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 18.4 pts (34%) Velocity 2.1 pts (4%) Breadth 22.4 pts (41%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ghsp · near

54
Landa · near

54
Netgear · this assignee

54
Radiant Opto- · near

54
Smiths Medical ASD · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Netgear's Innovation Score is 54.4/100 (top 8% 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 Netgear?

Each dot is one of Netgear’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). Netgear’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Netgear's grants concentrate

Netgear, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 70.6% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (37 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2024. By volume, Netgear sits between Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique) and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Netgear's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Netgear, Inc. moved from 76 to 24 grants (0.32x 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 #2,981. See the growth leaderboard.

Essilor Internati…

204
Heartware

204
Kateeva

204
Lummus Technology

204
Saf-holland

204
The Noco

204
Watlow Electric M…

204
Netgear ◀

204
Albert Einstein C…

203

What this shows Netgear holds 204 patents at rank #1,970, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Netgear

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,970 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Netgear, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Netgear ranks #160 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Landa Corporation Ltd. 54 Ghsp, Inc. 54 Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation 54 Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.3 here).

A9.com, Inc. 19.3 avg GSI Technology Inc. 19.3 avg Oxilio Ltd 19.3 avg Musarubra US LLC 19.3 avg

Netgear's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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.

View data table

Netgear, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	9.3%
2016	18	8.8%
2017	27	13.2%
2018	34	16.7%
2019	37	18.1%
2020	21	10.3%
2021	18	8.8%
2022	11	5.4%
2023	7	3.4%
2024	6	2.9%
2025partial year	6	2.9%

Which technologies does Netgear, Inc. patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 144

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 115

H04B - Transmission 78

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 38

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 32

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 25

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 19

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 17

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 14

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 12

H04J - Multiplex Communication 11

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 7

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 7

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 7

Top 15 of 40 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

Netgear, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Netgear, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 70.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #1,970 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Netgear, Inc. against Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique), an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.4/100 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.