Where does Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC ranks #697 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 Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC hold?

Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC holds 651 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC's Innovation Score?

Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC has an Innovation Score of 58.3 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC focus on?

Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 411 patents, ranking #68 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

Is Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC's recent grant velocity is -62% 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 Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC's patents?

Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC's patents average 22.5 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 Time Warner Cable Enterprises 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

Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 651 granted patents across 32 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, Time ranks #697 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 651 patents across 32 technology areas.

#697
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.3/100): 22.5
avg claims per patent: -62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R697 · US Corporation #697 · 651 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 651 grants
TOP-DECILE #697/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH British Telecommunic…
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: British Telecommunications public limited company (±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 Time’s 58.3 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 22.4 pts (38%) Velocity 2.4 pts (4%) Breadth 20.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 13.5 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Johnson & Johnson… · near

58
Silicon Motion · near

58
Time Warner Cable… · this assignee

58
Tokyo Ohka Kogyo · near

58
Yanmar Power… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Time's Innovation Score is 58.3/100 (top 5% 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 Time?

Each dot is one of Time’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). Time’s own 22.5 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.

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

Where Time's grants concentrate

Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 63.1% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (108 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2024. By volume, Time sits between Incyte Corporation and City University OF Hong Kong.

Time's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC moved from 191 to 69 grants (0.36x 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 #2,928. See the growth leaderboard.

Incyte

652
University of Sou…

652
British Telecommu…

651
BYD

651
Time Warner Cable… ◀

651
Huawei Device

649
Mitsui Chemicals

649
Continental Autom…

648
City University O…

646

What this shows Time holds 651 patents at rank #697, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Time

By rank, the assignees closest to #697 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Time, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Time ranks #68 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd. 58 Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd. 58 Silicon Motion, Inc. 58 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.5 here).

Avery Dennison Corporation 22.5 avg ResMed Pty Ltd 22.5 avg Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Inc. 22.5 avg Mbit Wireless, Inc. 22.5 avg

Time's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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

Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	78	12.0%
2016	108	16.6%
2017	96	14.7%
2018	102	15.7%
2019	82	12.6%
2020	57	8.8%
2021	52	8.0%
2022	38	5.8%
2023	23	3.5%
2024	8	1.2%
2025partial year	7	1.1%

Which technologies does Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 411

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 318

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 138

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 108

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

H04H - Broadcast Communication 41

H04M - Telephonic Communication 23

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 17

H04B - Transmission 12

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 11

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 10

H04Q - Selecting 8

H04J - Multiplex Communication 8

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 5

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

Top 15 of 32 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

Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 63.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #697 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC against Incyte Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.3/100 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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