Where does Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC ranks #9,921 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC's patents?

Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC's patents average 20.1 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC

Q: How many patents does Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC hold?

Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 7 technology areas.

Q: What is Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC's Innovation Score?

Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC has an Innovation Score of 33.5 out of 100 (45th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Q: What technology areas does Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC focus on?

Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 25 patents, ranking #654 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, 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 PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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, Verizon ranks #9,921 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 7 technology areas.

#9,921
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 45th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.5/100): 20.1
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9921 · US Corporation #9,921 · 32 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,921/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Verdant Robotics
CPC-NARROW H04N · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Verdant Robotics, Inc. (±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 Verizon’s 33.5 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 12.1 pts (36%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 9.4 pts (28%) Claim depth 12.0 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
CamPlex · near

33
IHI Charging… · near

33
Polyphor · near

33
Valencia · near

33
Verizon and Redbox… · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Verizon's Innovation Score is 33.5/100 (45th percentile 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 Verizon?

Each dot is one of Verizon’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). Verizon’s own 20.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Verizon's grants concentrate

Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 78.1% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Verizon sits between Violin Memory LLC and Wave Life Sciences Ltd..

Violin Memory

32
Vision Industries…

32
Voiceage

32
Verdant Robotics

32
Vilnius University

32
Vulcan Industrial…

32
Vyaire Medical

32
Wave Life Sciences

32
Verizon and Redbo… ◀

32

What this shows Verizon holds 32 patents at rank #9,924, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Verizon

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,924 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Verizon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Verizon ranks #654 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

CamPlex, Inc. 33 IHI Charging Systems International GmbH 33 Valencia Technologies Corporation 33 Polyphor AG 33

Verizon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 45th percentile higher than 45% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

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

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Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	15.6%
2016	14	43.8%
2017	8	25.0%
2018	4	12.5%
2019	1	3.1%

Which technologies does Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 25

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 20

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 18

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 17

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 78.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #9,921 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC against Violin Memory LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.5/100 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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