Where does Seven Networks, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Seven Networks, LLC ranks #1,650 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 Seven Networks, LLC hold?

Seven Networks, LLC holds 249 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Seven Networks, LLC's Innovation Score?

Seven Networks, LLC has an Innovation Score of 49.5 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Seven Networks, LLC focus on?

Seven Networks, LLC's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 219 patents, ranking #120 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Seven Networks, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Seven Networks, LLC'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 Seven Networks, LLC's patents?

Seven Networks, LLC's patents average 22.2 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 Seven Networks, 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

Seven Networks, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 249 granted patents across 14 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Seven ranks #1,650 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 249 patents across 14 technology areas.

#1,650
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.5/100): 22.2
avg claims per patent: -53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1650 · US Corporation #1,650 · 249 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 249 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,650/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Arkema
CPC-FOCUS H04W · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Arkema Inc. (±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 Seven’s 49.5 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 19.1 pts (39%) Velocity 3.9 pts (8%) Breadth 13.2 pts (27%) Claim depth 13.3 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bridgestone Sports · near

50
Hitachi-ge Nuclear… · near

50
Nippon Seiki · near

50
Seven Networks · this assignee

50
SRC · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Seven's Innovation Score is 49.5/100 (top 14% 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 Seven?

Each dot is one of Seven’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). Seven’s own 22.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Seven's grants concentrate

Seven Networks, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 88% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (43 grants) versus a trough of 11 in 2024. By volume, Seven sits between Smith International, Inc. and Activision Publishing, Inc..

Seven's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Seven Networks, LLC moved from 65 to 38 grants (0.58x 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 #2,485. See the growth leaderboard.

Smith Internation…

250
Valinge Innovatio…

250
AS America

249
Arkema

249
Slack

249
Varian Medical Sy…

249
Seven Networks ◀

249
Antecip Bioventur…

248
Activision Publis…

248

What this shows Seven holds 249 patents at rank #1,650, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Seven

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,650 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Seven, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Seven ranks #120 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd. 50 Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd. 50 Hitachi-ge Nuclear Energy, Ltd. 50 SRC Corporation 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.2 here).

Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. 22.2 avg Optasense Holdings Limited 22.2 avg Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited 22.2 avg Egnyte, Inc. 22.2 avg

Seven's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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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Seven Networks, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	35	14.1%
2016	43	17.3%
2017	29	11.6%
2018	34	13.7%
2019	25	10.0%
2020	24	9.6%
2021	16	6.4%
2022	14	5.6%
2023	13	5.2%
2024	11	4.4%
2025partial year	5	2.0%

Which technologies does Seven Networks, LLC patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 219

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 196

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 119

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 89

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 42

H04M - Telephonic Communication 27

H04B - Transmission 18

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 16

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 2

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Seven Networks, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Seven Networks, LLC's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 88% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #1,650 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Seven Networks, LLC against Smith International, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.5/100 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.