Where does Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. ranks #10,183 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 Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. hold?

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.3 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. focus on?

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 27 patents, ranking #1,063 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +175% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.'s patents?

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.'s patents average 20.4 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 Sinclair Broadcast Group, 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

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sinclair ranks #10,183 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 13 technology areas.

#10,183
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.3/100): 20.4
avg claims per patent: +175%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10183 · US Corporation #10,183 · 31 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,183/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shenzhen Capchem…
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +175% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shenzhen Capchem Technology Co., Ltd. (±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 Sinclair’s 41.3 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 12.0 pts (29%) Velocity 4.3 pts (10%) Breadth 12.7 pts (31%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gulfstream Services · near

41
Shibaura · near

41
Shoppertrak RCT · near

41
Sinclair Broadcast… · this assignee

41
eyeSight Mobile · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sinclair's Innovation Score is 41.3/100 (top 33% 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 Sinclair?

Each dot is one of Sinclair’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). Sinclair’s own 20.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sinclair's grants concentrate

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 87.1% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Sinclair sits between Shenzhen Capchem Technology Co., Ltd. and STMicroelectronics (Malta) Ltd.

Sinclair's three-year grant acceleration

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Shenzhen Capchem…

31
Shenzhen Intellif…

31
Shenzhen Xingrish…

31
Siemens Energy AS

31
Sionyx

31
SST Systems

31
ST Jude Medical AB

31
Stmicroelectronic…

31
Sinclair Broadcas… ◀

31

What this shows Sinclair holds 31 patents at rank #10,172, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sinclair

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,172 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sinclair, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Sinclair ranks #1,063 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd. 41 Gulfstream Services, Inc. 41 Shoppertrak RCT LLC 41 eyeSight Mobile Technologies Ltd. 41

Sinclair's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 33% higher than 67% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	3.2%
2018	1	3.2%
2019	6	19.4%
2020	5	16.1%
2021	6	19.4%
2022	3	9.7%
2023	5	16.1%
2024	3	9.7%
2025partial year	1	3.2%

Which technologies does Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 27

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 24

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 20

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 16

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 15

H04H - Broadcast Communication 8

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 8

H03K - Pulse Technique 2

H04J - Multiplex Communication 2

H04B - Transmission 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

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 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 87.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #10,183 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. against Shenzhen Capchem Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.3/100 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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