Where does Thomson Licensing rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thomson Licensing ranks #410 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 Thomson Licensing hold?

Thomson Licensing holds 1,095 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 87 technology areas.

What is Thomson Licensing's Innovation Score?

Thomson Licensing has an Innovation Score of 62.1 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Thomson Licensing focus on?

Thomson Licensing's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 592 patents, ranking #55 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 87 CPC subclasses total.

Is Thomson Licensing's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thomson Licensing's recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Thomson Licensing's patents?

Thomson Licensing's patents average 16.0 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 Thomson Licensing 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 Foreign Corporation

Thomson Licensing

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,095 granted patents across 87 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Thomson ranks #410 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,095 patents across 87 technology areas.

#410
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (62.1/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R410 · Foreign Corporation #410 · 1,095 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #410/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Advanced Semiconduct…
CPC-WIDE H04N · 87 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (±3 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 Thomson’s 62.1 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 24.2 pts (39%) Velocity 3.3 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alps Alpine · near

62
Qingdao Pico… · near

62
Thomson Licensing · this assignee

62
Agency FOR Science… · near

62
Hanon Systems · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Thomson's Innovation Score is 62.1/100 (top 3% 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 Thomson?

Each dot is one of Thomson’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). Thomson’s own 16.0 claims/patent is at or below the 17.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Thomson's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Thomson Licensing received 16 grants versus 1,078 in 2015–2019 (-99% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 325 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 2. Lead class H04N accounts for 54.1% of the portfolio across 87 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Elwha LLC (#406) and Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. (#414).

Thomson's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Thomson Licensing moved from 20 to 10 grants (0.50x 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 #2,693. See the growth leaderboard.

Elwha

1,103
Dropbox

1,102
Target Brands

1,102
Boston Scientific…

1,098
Thomson Licensing ◀

1,095
Advanced Semicond…

1,092
NTN

1,091
Bristol-myers Squ…

1,089
Yangtze Memory

1,087

What this shows Thomson holds 1,095 patents at rank #410, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Thomson

By rank, the assignees closest to #410 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Thomson, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Thomson ranks #55 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. 62 Qingdao Pico Technology Co., Ltd. 62 Agency FOR Science, Technology AND Research 62 Hanon Systems 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.0 here).

DSM IP Assets B.V. 16.0 avg Stratasys Ltd. 16.0 avg Stichting Imec Nederland 16.0 avg Tendyron Corporation 16.0 avg

Thomson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 3% higher than 97% 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.

View data table

Thomson Licensing patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	325	29.7%
2016	264	24.1%
2017	276	25.2%
2018	199	18.2%
2019	14	1.3%
2020	3	0.3%
2021	3	0.3%
2022	2	0.2%
2023	4	0.4%
2024	4	0.4%
2025partial year	1	0.1%

Which technologies does Thomson Licensing patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 592

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 223

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 222

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 214

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 83

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 81

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 37

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 35

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 30

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 29

H04B - Transmission 27

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 24

H04M - Telephonic Communication 24

H04H - Broadcast Communication 23

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 22

Top 15 of 87 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

Thomson Licensing's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Thomson Licensing's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 54.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #410 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thomson Licensing against Elwha LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.1/100 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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