Where does 1ahead Technologies rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), 1ahead Technologies ranks #19,391 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 1ahead Technologies hold?

1ahead Technologies holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is 1ahead Technologies's Innovation Score?

1ahead Technologies has an Innovation Score of 56.7 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is 1ahead Technologies's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for 1ahead Technologies.

What does claim depth mean for 1ahead Technologies's patents?

1ahead Technologies's patents average 19.9 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 1ahead Technologies 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

1ahead Technologies

Q: What technology areas does 1ahead Technologies focus on?

1ahead Technologies's top technology area is 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) with 14 patents, ranking #138 of 1,508 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: 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 FO).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, 1ahead ranks #19,391 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 19 technology areas.

#19,391
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.7/100): 19.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19391 · US Corporation #19,391 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #19,391/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH 3Play Media
CPC-FOCUS G07C · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 3Play Media, 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 1ahead’s 56.7 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 9.4 pts (17%) Velocity 20.0 pts (35%) Breadth 15.4 pts (27%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
1ahead · this assignee

57
SEB · near

57
Aura Home · near

57
nference · near

57
Simon Fraser… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows 1ahead's Innovation Score is 56.7/100 (top 6% 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 1ahead?

Each dot is one of 1ahead’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). 1ahead’s own 19.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

1ahead vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where 1ahead's grants concentrate

1ahead Technologies is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under 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 FO). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (6 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2021. By volume, 1ahead sits between iPEK International GmbH and A. Kayser Automotive Systems GmbH.

1ahead's three-year grant acceleration

1ahead Technologies shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

ipek International

15
izotope

15
midiagnostics

15
ncap Licensing

15
3play Media

14
4D Pharma

14
6sense Insights

14
A Kayser Automoti…

14
1ahead ◀

14

What this shows 1ahead holds 14 patents at rank #19,391, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near 1ahead

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,391 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07C (Time OR Attendance Registers)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in 1ahead's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for 1ahead, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G07C (Time OR Attendance Registers), 1ahead ranks #138 of 1,508 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

SEB S.A. 57 nference, Inc. 57 Aura Home, Inc. 57 Simon Fraser University 57

1ahead's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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1ahead Technologies patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	3	21.4%
2022	6	42.9%
2023	4	28.6%
2025partial year	1	7.1%

Which technologies does 1ahead Technologies patent most?

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 14

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 13

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 13

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 13

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 12

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

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 8

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 6

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 6

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 6

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 2

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 2

Top 15 of 19 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

1ahead Technologies's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

1ahead Technologies's lead technology class is 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 FO), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G07C
Ranked #19,391 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare 1ahead Technologies against iPEK International GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.7/100 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.