Where does Vivint LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vivint LLC ranks #1,001 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 Vivint LLC hold?

Vivint LLC holds 439 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 57 technology areas.

What is Vivint LLC's Innovation Score?

Vivint LLC has an Innovation Score of 58.1 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 Vivint LLC focus on?

Vivint LLC's top technology area is G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems) with 166 patents. Grants appear in 57 CPC subclasses total.

Is Vivint LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vivint LLC's recent grant velocity is -43% 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 Vivint LLC's patents?

Vivint LLC'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 Vivint 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

Vivint LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 439 granted patents across 57 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: G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vivint ranks #1,001 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 439 patents across 57 technology areas.

#1,001
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.1/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1001 · US Corporation #1,001 · 439 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 439 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,001/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Samsung Medison
CPC-WIDE G08B · 57 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Samsung Medison 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Power Integrations · near

58
Payrange · near

58
Vivint · this assignee

58
Indiana University… · near

58
Kyoto University · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vivint's Innovation Score is 58.1/100 (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.

How Vivint's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Vivint LLC received 156 grants versus 272 in 2015–2019 (-43% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 96 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 7. Lead class G08B accounts for 37.8% of the portfolio across 57 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Beta AIR LLC (#997) and Block, Inc. (#1,005).

Vivint's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Vivint LLC moved from 209 to 43 grants (0.21x 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 #3,084. See the growth leaderboard.

Beta AIR

441
Shanghai Langbo C…

440
The Braun

440
Samsung Medison

439
Vivint ◀

439
Knorr-bremse Syst…

438
Nuvoton Technology

438
Advantest

437
Block

437

What this shows Vivint holds 439 patents at rank #1,001, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vivint

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,001 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G08B (Signalling OR Calling Systems)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Vivint, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Payrange LLC 58 Indiana University Research AND Technology Corporation 58 Power Integrations, Inc. 58 Kyoto University 58

Similar claim depth

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

Infinera Corp. 17.8 avg Cambridge Enterprise Limited 17.8 avg GAS Technology Institute 17.8 avg The University of Bristol 17.8 avg

Vivint'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.

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Vivint LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	2.1%
2016	28	6.4%
2017	62	14.1%
2018	77	17.5%
2019	96	21.9%
2020	70	15.9%
2021	43	9.8%
2022	22	5.0%
2023	14	3.2%
2024	7	1.6%
2025partial year	11	2.5%

Which technologies does Vivint LLC patent most?

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 166

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 144

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 84

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 84

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 70

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 60

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 52

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 31

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 29

H04M - Telephonic Communication 26

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 24

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 22

H04B - Transmission 16

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 16

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 15

Top 15 of 57 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,001

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Vivint LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vivint LLC's lead technology class is G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems), 37.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G08B
Ranked #1,001 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vivint LLC against Beta AIR LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.1/100 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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