Where does Sling TV L.L.C. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sling TV L.L.C. ranks #9,127 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 Sling TV L.L.C. hold?

Sling TV L.L.C. holds 35 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Sling TV L.L.C.'s Innovation Score?

Sling TV L.L.C. has an Innovation Score of 53.2 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sling TV L.L.C. focus on?

Sling TV L.L.C.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 28 patents, ranking #607 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sling TV L.L.C.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Sling TV L.L.C..

What does claim depth mean for Sling TV L.L.C.'s patents?

Sling TV L.L.C.'s patents average 18.0 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 Sling TV L.L.C. 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

Sling TV L.L.C.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 35 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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, Sling ranks #9,127 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 35 patents across 8 technology areas.

#9,127
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.2/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9127 · US Corporation #9,127 · 35 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 35 grants
UPPER-Q #9,127/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Semiconductor…
CPC-NARROW H04N · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (±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 Sling’s 53.2 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 12.4 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (38%) Breadth 10.0 pts (19%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aselsan Elektronik… · near

53
Fujitsu General · near

53
Nevermind Capital · near

53
Sling TV L L C · this assignee

53
University of Leeds · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sling's Innovation Score is 53.2/100 (top 9% 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 Sling?

Each dot is one of Sling’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). Sling’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sling's grants concentrate

Sling TV L.L.C. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Sling sits between Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. and Symetis SA.

Sling's three-year grant acceleration

Sling TV L.L.C. shows 26 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Semiconductor Man…

35
Seqirus UK

35
Shandong Universi…

35
Sifotonics

35
Soreq Nuclear Res…

35
Sound Solutions I…

35
Spiration

35
Symetis

35
Sling TV L L C ◀

35

What this shows Sling holds 35 patents at rank #9,128, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sling

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,128 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sling, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Sling ranks #607 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Nevermind Capital LLC 53 University of Leeds 53 Aselsan Elektronik Sanayi VE Ticaret Anonim Sirketi 53 Fujitsu General Limited 53

Sling's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Sling TV L.L.C. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	2.9%
2022	6	17.1%
2023	8	22.9%
2024	12	34.3%
2025partial year	8	22.9%

Which technologies does Sling TV L.L.C. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 28

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 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

H04H - Broadcast Communication 3

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

H04B - Transmission 2

Top 8 of 8 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

Sling TV L.L.C.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sling TV L.L.C.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #9,127 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sling TV L.L.C. against Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.2/100 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

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.