Where does Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ranks #2,856 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 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. hold?

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. holds 135 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. has an Innovation Score of 57.1 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 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. focus on?

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 81 patents, ranking #240 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

Is Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +88% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.'s patents?

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.'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.

How is the Warner Bros. Entertainment 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

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 135 granted patents across 28 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, Warner ranks #2,856 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 135 patents across 28 technology areas.

#2,856
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.1/100): 20.1
avg claims per patent: +88%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2856 · US Corporation #2,856 · 135 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 135 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,856/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Second Sight…
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +88% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Second Sight Medical Products, 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 Warner’s 57.1 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 17.0 pts (30%) Velocity 9.4 pts (16%) Breadth 18.7 pts (33%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AIR Cruisers · near

57
Bell Sports · near

57
Korea Atomic Energy… · near

57
SKC · near

57
Warner Bros… · this assignee

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Warner's Innovation Score is 57.1/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Warner?

Each dot is one of Warner’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). Warner’s own 20.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Warner's grants concentrate

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (26 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2015. By volume, Warner sits between Suntory Flowers Limited and Immunomedics, Inc..

Warner's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. moved from 37 to 52 grants (1.41x 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 #519. See the growth leaderboard.

Suntory Flowers

135
Second Sight Medi…

135
Tamura

135
Toagosei

135
Warner Bros Enter… ◀

135
Bruker Nano

134
Hendrickson USA L…

134
Imam Mohammad IBN…

134
Immunomedics

134

What this shows Warner holds 135 patents at rank #2,856, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Warner

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,856 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Warner, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Warner ranks #240 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

SKC Co., Ltd. 57 Bell Sports, Inc. 57 Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute 57 AIR Cruisers Company, LLC 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.1 here).

8 Rivers Capital, LLC 20.1 avg Dialog Semiconductor (UK) Limited 20.1 avg Facense Ltd. 20.1 avg Shenzhen Xpectvision Technology Co., Ltd. 20.1 avg

Warner's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 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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Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	3.0%
2016	5	3.7%
2017	13	9.6%
2018	4	3.0%
2019	14	10.4%
2020	14	10.4%
2021	9	6.7%
2022	16	11.9%
2023	10	7.4%
2024	26	19.3%
2025partial year	20	14.8%

Which technologies does Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 81

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 39

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 28

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 24

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 23

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 15

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 13

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 12

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 12

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 9

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 6

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 6

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 5

H03G - Control OF Amplification 4

Top 15 of 28 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

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #2,856 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. against Suntory Flowers Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.1/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.