McAndrews, Held & Malloy Client Broadcom Corporation’s U.S. Patent Portfolio Ranked as World’s Fifth Most Powerful By IEEE Spectrum IEEE Spectrum’s first annual patent survey recently ranked the U.S. patent portfolio of McAndrews, Held & Malloy client Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) as the fifth most powerful in the world. Broadcom is a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. IEEE Spectrum is the flagship publication of the IEEE, the world’s largest professional technology association. The survey considered 1,027 organizations with “the most influential and potentially most lucrative“ patent portfolios