Where does Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC ranks #2,340 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 Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC hold?

Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC holds 168 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC's Innovation Score?

Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC has an Innovation Score of 46.9 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC focus on?

Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 149 patents, ranking #150 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

Is Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC's recent grant velocity is -95% 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 Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC's patents?

Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC's patents average 19.7 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 Tribune Broadcasting Company, 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

Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 168 granted patents across 24 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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, Tribune ranks #2,340 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 168 patents across 24 technology areas.

#2,340
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.9/100): 19.7
avg claims per patent: -95%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2340 · US Corporation #2,340 · 168 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 168 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,340/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sanden
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -95% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sanden Corporation (±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 Tribune’s 46.9 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 17.7 pts (38%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 17.3 pts (37%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aeris Communications · near

47
Cyber Power Systems · near

47
Messier-bugatti-dowty · near

47
Nortonlifelock · near

47
Tribune Broadcasting · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tribune's Innovation Score is 46.9/100 (top 20% 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 Tribune?

Each dot is one of Tribune’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). Tribune’s own 19.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Tribune's grants concentrate

Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 88.7% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (40 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2020. By volume, Tribune sits between Sanden Corporation and BJ Energy Solutions, LLC.

Sanden

168
Techtronic Floor…

168
The Government of…

168
Tracfone Wireless

168
Xintec

168
Tribune Broadcast… ◀

168
Aruze Gaming Amer…

167
Auburn University

167
BJ Energy Solutio…

167

What this shows Tribune holds 168 patents at rank #2,340, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tribune

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,340 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Tribune, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Tribune ranks #150 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Nortonlifelock Inc. 47 Messier-bugatti-dowty 47 Aeris Communications, Inc. 47 Cyber Power Systems, Inc. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.7 here).

BMC Software, Inc. 19.7 avg Mertec, LLC 19.7 avg Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. 19.7 avg Hypres, Inc. 19.7 avg

Tribune's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	18	10.7%
2016	25	14.9%
2017	39	23.2%
2018	40	23.8%
2019	38	22.6%
2020	8	4.8%

Which technologies does Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 149

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 64

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 33

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 30

H04H - Broadcast Communication 29

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 24

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 19

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

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 14

H03G - Control OF Amplification 13

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 9

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 6

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 5

B64F - Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide 4

H04M - Telephonic Communication 4

Top 15 of 24 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

Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 88.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #2,340 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC against Sanden Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.9/100 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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