Where does Rovi Guides, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rovi Guides, Inc. ranks #191 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 Rovi Guides, Inc. hold?

Rovi Guides, Inc. holds 2,091 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 52 technology areas.

What is Rovi Guides, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Rovi Guides, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 74.2 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 Rovi Guides, Inc. focus on?

Rovi Guides, Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 1,528 patents, ranking #21 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 52 CPC subclasses total.

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

Rovi Guides, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +122% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Rovi Guides, 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 Rovi Guides, 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

Rovi Guides, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,091 granted patents across 52 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Rovi ranks #191 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,091 patents across 52 technology areas.

#191
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (74.2/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent: +122%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R191 · US Corporation #191 · 2,091 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 2.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #191/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Milwaukee Electric…
CPC-WIDE H04N · 52 areas
INNOV-STRONG 74.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +122% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation (±4 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 Rovi’s 74.2 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 26.4 pts (36%) Velocity 11.1 pts (15%) Breadth 25.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cisco Technology · near

74
BOE Technology Group · near

74
Argo AI · near

74
Rovi Guides · this assignee

74
Nokia OY · near

74
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Rovi's Innovation Score is 74.2/100 (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 Rovi?

Each dot is one of Rovi’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). Rovi’s own 19.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Rovi's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Rovi Guides, Inc. received 1,442 grants versus 649 in 2015–2019 (+122% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 368 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 102. Lead class H04N accounts for 73.1% of the portfolio across 52 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. (#187) and Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (#195).

Rovi's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Rovi Guides, Inc. moved from 598 to 996 grants (1.67x 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 #333. See the growth leaderboard.

Intuitive Surgica…

2,117
Walmart Apollo

2,112
Interdigital Pate…

2,111
Milwaukee Electri…

2,095
Rovi Guides ◀

2,091
Innolux

2,082
Fujifilm Business…

2,077
Beijing BOE Optoe…

2,069
Realtek Semicondu…

2,067

What this shows Rovi holds 2,091 patents at rank #191, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rovi

By rank, the assignees closest to #191 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Rovi, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Rovi ranks #21 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (74 here).

Argo AI, LLC 74 BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. 74 Cisco Technology, Inc. 74 Nokia Technologies OY 74

Similar claim depth

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

Digital Global Systems, Inc. 19.5 avg Rain Bird Corporation 19.5 avg Research Institute OF Petroleum Processing, Sinopec 19.5 avg Eva Automation, Inc. 19.5 avg

Rovi'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 · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Rovi Guides, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	119	5.7%
2016	102	4.9%
2017	128	6.1%
2018	148	7.1%
2019	152	7.3%
2020	191	9.1%
2021	255	12.2%
2022	270	12.9%
2023	368	17.6%
2024	358	17.1%

Which technologies does Rovi Guides, Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1,528

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 918

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 338

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 259

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 240

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 143

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 113

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 102

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 93

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 79

H04H - Broadcast Communication 56

H04M - Telephonic Communication 42

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 38

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 26

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 18

Top 15 of 52 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Rovi Guides, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 73.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #191 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rovi Guides, Inc. against Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 74.2/100 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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