Where does A Social Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), A Social Company ranks #38,511 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 A Social Company hold?

A Social Company holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2024, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is A Social Company's Innovation Score?

A Social Company has an Innovation Score of 43.0 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does A Social Company focus on?

A Social Company's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 6 patents, ranking #3,547 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is A Social Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for A Social Company.

What does claim depth mean for A Social Company's patents?

A Social Company's patents average 25.7 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 A Social Company 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

A Social Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2024. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, A ranks #38,511 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 5 technology areas.

#38,511
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.0/100): 25.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R38511 · US Corporation #38,511 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #38,511/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH 8479950 Canada
CPC-NARROW H04L · 5 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2024 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 8479950 Canada 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 A’s 43.0 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 6.7 pts (16%) Velocity 13.3 pts (31%) Breadth 7.9 pts (18%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
A Social · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows A's Innovation Score is 43.0/100 (top 29% 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 A?

Each dot is one of A’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). A’s own 25.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where A's grants concentrate

A Social Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, A sits between 8479950 Canada Inc. and A. Richard Tools Co..

A's three-year grant acceleration

A Social Company shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

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What this shows A holds 6 patents at rank #38,508, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near A

By rank, the assignees closest to #38,508 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

A's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2024

Grants by year

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

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A Social Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	2	33.3%
2024	4	66.7%

Which technologies does A Social Company patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 6

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

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 3

Top 5 of 5 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

A Social Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

A Social Company's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #38,511 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare A Social Company against 8479950 Canada Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.0/100 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.