Where does Verizon Digital Media Services Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Verizon Digital Media Services Inc. ranks #3,167 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 Verizon Digital Media Services Inc. hold?

Verizon Digital Media Services Inc. holds 119 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Verizon Digital Media Services Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Verizon Digital Media Services Inc. has an Innovation Score of 38.9 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Verizon Digital Media Services Inc. focus on?

Verizon Digital Media Services Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 108 patents, ranking #361 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Verizon Digital Media Services Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Verizon Digital Media Services Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -25% 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 Digital Media Services Inc.'s patents?

Verizon Digital Media Services Inc.'s patents average 17.8 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 Verizon Digital Media Services Inc. 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

Verizon Digital Media Services Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 119 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Verizon ranks #3,167 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 119 patents across 10 technology areas.

#3,167
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (38.9/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3167 · US Corporation #3,167 · 119 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 119 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,167/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Suzhou Metabrain…
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Suzhou Metabrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (±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 38.9 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 16.5 pts (42%) Velocity 0.5 pts (1%) Breadth 11.2 pts (29%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BioCardia · near

39
Brose Schliessysteme… · near

39
Co2pac · near

39
Soulbrain · near

39
Verizon Digital… · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Verizon's Innovation Score is 38.9/100 (top 39% 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 17.8 claims/patent is at or below the 18.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Verizon's grants concentrate

Verizon Digital Media Services Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 90.8% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (28 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Verizon sits between Suzhou Metabrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. and Artilux, Inc..

Verizon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Verizon Digital Media Services Inc. moved from 62 to 5 grants (0.08x 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 #3,193. See the growth leaderboard.

Suzhou Metabrain…

119
Swisscom

119
Telebrands

119
Titan Medical

119
Wyse Technology L…

119
Yamabiko

119
Zurn Industries

119
Verizon Digital M… ◀

119
Artilux

118

What this shows Verizon holds 119 patents at rank #3,167, 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 #3,167 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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 H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Verizon ranks #361 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Brose Schliessysteme GmbH & Co. KG 39 Soulbrain Co., Ltd. 39 Co2pac Limited 39 BioCardia Inc. 39

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.8 here).

Novamont S.p.A. 17.8 avg Csem Centre Suisse D'electronique ET DE Microtechnique SA—RECHERCHE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT 17.8 avg University of Leeds 17.8 avg Avid Technology, Inc. 17.8 avg

Verizon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Verizon Digital Media Services Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	9	7.6%
2017	21	17.6%
2018	22	18.5%
2019	16	13.4%
2020	28	23.5%
2021	18	15.1%
2022	4	3.4%
2023	1	0.8%

Which technologies does Verizon Digital Media Services Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 108

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 37

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 17

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 10

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 8

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 4

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

H04B - Transmission 3

H04H - Broadcast Communication 2

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 1

Top 10 of 10 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 Digital Media Services Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Verizon Digital Media Services Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 90.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #3,167 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Verizon Digital Media Services Inc. against Suzhou Metabrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.9/100 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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