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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Roku, Inc. ranks #615 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 Roku, Inc. hold?

Roku, Inc. holds 717 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 47 technology areas.

What is Roku, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Roku, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 73.6 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 Roku, Inc. focus on?

Roku, Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 488 patents, ranking #63 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 47 CPC subclasses total.

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

Roku, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +500% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Roku, Inc.'s patents?

Roku, Inc.'s patents average 19.5 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 Roku, 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

Roku, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 717 granted patents across 47 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, Roku ranks #615 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 717 patents across 47 technology areas.

#615
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (73.6/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent: +500%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R615 · US Corporation #615 · 717 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 717 grants
TOP-DECILE #615/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dana-farber Cancer…
CPC-WIDE H04N · 47 areas
INNOV-STRONG 73.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +500% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dana-farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (±1 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 Roku’s 73.6 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 22.7 pts (31%) Velocity 15.0 pts (20%) Breadth 24.2 pts (33%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
The Boeing · near

74
Roku · this assignee

74
Aurora Operations · near

74
Bmic · near

73
Zhejiang University · near

73
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Roku's Innovation Score is 73.6/100 (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 Roku?

Each dot is one of Roku’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). Roku’s own 19.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Roku's grants concentrate

Roku, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 47 CPC subclasses with 68.1% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (136 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2015. By volume, Roku sits between Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd. and Masimo Corporation.

Roku's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Roku, Inc. moved from 175 to 393 grants (2.25x 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 #156. See the growth leaderboard.

Seoul Viosys

723
Sanofi

721
Council OF Scient…

720
Hoya

718
Roku ◀

717
Dana-farber Cance…

716
T-mobile Innovati…

715
FG Innovation

714
Masimo

714

What this shows Roku holds 717 patents at rank #615, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Roku

By rank, the assignees closest to #615 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Roku, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Roku ranks #63 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (74 here).

Aurora Operations, Inc. 74 The Boeing Company 74 Bmic LLC 73 Zhejiang University 73

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.5 here).

Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd. 19.5 avg Progress Software Corporation 19.5 avg Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 19.5 avg Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc. 19.5 avg

Roku's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

74 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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Roku, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	0.8%
2016	10	1.4%
2017	20	2.8%
2018	19	2.6%
2019	34	4.7%
2020	31	4.3%
2021	110	15.3%
2022	129	18.0%
2023	136	19.0%
2024	128	17.9%
2025partial year	94	13.1%

Which technologies does Roku, Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 488

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 233

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 99

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 89

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 61

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 55

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 54

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 51

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 41

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 26

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 26

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 23

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 22

H04B - Transmission 18

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 17

Top 15 of 47 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

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

Roku, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 68.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #615 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Roku, Inc. against Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 73.6/100 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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