Where does Abrado, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Abrado, Inc. ranks #23,757 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Abrado, Inc. hold?

Abrado, Inc. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2023, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Abrado, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Abrado, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 26.5 out of 100 (top 80% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Abrado, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Abrado, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -43% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Abrado, Inc.'s patents?

Abrado, Inc.'s patents average 12.2 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 Abrado, 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

Abrado, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Abrado, Inc. focus on?

Abrado, Inc.'s top technology area is E21B (EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS) with 11 patents. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2023. 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: E21B (EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Abrado ranks #23,757 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 5 technology areas.

#23,757
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 80%
by Innovation Score (26.5/100): 12.2
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23757 · US Corporation #23,757 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #23,757/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH A2 BIOTHERAPEUTICS
CPC-NARROW E21B · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 26.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: A2 Biotherapeutics, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Abrado · this assignee

26
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Abrado's Innovation Score is 26.5/100 (top 80% 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.

Where Abrado's grants concentrate

Abrado, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under E21B (EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Abrado sits between A.y. Laboratories Ltd. and ACER Cloud Technology, Inc..

Abrado's three-year grant acceleration

Abrado, Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

A Y Laboratories

11
A2 Biotherapeutics

11
AAC Optics (Nanni…

11
Abbott Japan

11
Academisch Medisc…

11
Accurence

11
Accutec Blades

11
ACER Cloud Techno…

11
Abrado ◀

11

What this shows Abrado holds 11 patents at rank #23,759, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Abrado

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,759 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR ROCK Drilling)

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

Abrado's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

26 Top 80% higher than 20% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Abrado, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	9.1%
2018	3	27.3%
2019	3	27.3%
2020	1	9.1%
2021	1	9.1%
2022	1	9.1%
2023	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Abrado, Inc. patent most?

E21B - EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS 11

B08B - CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL 1

B24B - MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING ; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS 1

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 1

G03B - APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#23,757

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

26.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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