Access Advance LLC

Access Advance LLC is an independent licensing administration company, established in 2015, currently offering three industry-leading patent pools for licensing essential patents of the most important standards-based video codec technologies. Access Advance offers a market-driven modern, efficient, and transparent approach to patent pool licensing, at FRAND rates that are a fair balance between the interests of patent owners and implementers. Under Access Advance’s HEVC Advance Patent Pool, licensees enjoy coverage for over 27,000 essential, high-quality patents necessary to implement the HEVC/H.265 standard. Access Advance also offers its VVC Advance Patent Pool, currently providing coverage for 3600+ patents essential to the VVC/H.266 and VSEI standards. For further efficiency and savings, Access Advance offers a Multi-Codec Bridging Agreement, providing companies that are licensees in both the HEVC Advance and VVC Advance patent pools with substantially reduced royalties for products that implement both codecs as compared to the sum of the royalty rates of the two pools individually. In January 2025, Access Advance launched its newest offering; the Video Distribution Patent Pool (VDP). The VDP Pool includes, for a single royalty, standard essential patents covering each of the four most modern codecs currently used or contemplated for use by video distribution providers: HEVC, VVC, VP9, and AV1.