Where does Sirius XM Radio Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sirius XM Radio Inc. ranks #3,750 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 Sirius XM Radio Inc. hold?

Sirius XM Radio Inc. holds 97 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Sirius XM Radio Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sirius XM Radio Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.9 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sirius XM Radio Inc. focus on?

Sirius XM Radio Inc.'s top technology area is H04H (Broadcast Communication) with 45 patents, ranking #15 of 414 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sirius XM Radio Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sirius XM Radio Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -18% 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 Sirius XM Radio Inc.'s patents?

Sirius XM Radio Inc.'s patents average 17.6 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 Sirius XM Radio 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

Sirius XM Radio Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 97 granted patents across 22 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: H04H (Broadcast Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sirius ranks #3,750 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 97 patents across 22 technology areas.

#3,750
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.9/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: -18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3750 · US Corporation #3,750 · 97 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 97 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,750/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sealed Air (US)
CPC-FOCUS H04H · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sealed Air Corporation (US) (±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 Sirius’s 48.9 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 15.8 pts (32%) Velocity 6.0 pts (12%) Breadth 16.6 pts (34%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Building Materials… · near

49
InterDigital… · near

49
Resonant · near

49
Sirius XM Radio · this assignee

49
Alpha · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sirius's Innovation Score is 48.9/100 (top 16% 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 Sirius?

Each dot is one of Sirius’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). Sirius’s own 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 6.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sirius's grants concentrate

Sirius XM Radio Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 46.4% of grants classified under H04H (Broadcast Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (14 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2017. By volume, Sirius sits between Shin TAI Spurt Water OF THE Garden Tools Co., Ltd and Toyoda Iron Works Co., Ltd..

Sirius's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sirius XM Radio Inc. moved from 29 to 26 grants (0.90x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Shin TAI Spurt Wa…

97
ST Jude Medical I…

97
Straumann Holding

97
Sealed Air (US)

97
Skip Hop

97
Takata

97
TBL Licensing

97
Toyoda Iron Works

97
Sirius XM Radio ◀

97

What this shows Sirius holds 97 patents at rank #3,751, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sirius

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,751 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04H (Broadcast Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sirius, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04H (Broadcast Communication), Sirius ranks #15 of 414 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Resonant Inc. 49 Building Materials Investment Corporation 49 InterDigital Technology Corporation 49 Alpha Corporation 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.6 here).

Infineum International Limited 17.6 avg McMaster University 17.6 avg SMR Patents S.à.r.l. 17.6 avg Swimc LLC 17.6 avg

Sirius's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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Sirius XM Radio Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	14	14.4%
2016	8	8.2%
2017	7	7.2%
2018	9	9.3%
2019	13	13.4%
2020	8	8.2%
2021	8	8.2%
2022	8	8.2%
2023	7	7.2%
2024	11	11.3%
2025partial year	4	4.1%

Which technologies does Sirius XM Radio Inc. patent most?

H04H - Broadcast Communication 45

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 40

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 27

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 23

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 22

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 19

H04B - Transmission 16

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 15

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 11

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 10

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 9

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 7

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 6

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

Top 15 of 22 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

Sirius XM Radio Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sirius XM Radio Inc.'s lead technology class is H04H (Broadcast Communication), 46.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04H
Ranked #3,750 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sirius XM Radio Inc. against Shin TAI Spurt Water OF THE Garden Tools Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.9/100 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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