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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Afero, Inc. ranks #3,586 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 Afero, Inc. hold?

Afero, Inc. holds 102 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Afero, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Afero, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.2 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Afero, Inc. focus on?

Afero, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 79 patents, ranking #463 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

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

Afero, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -44% 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 Afero, Inc.'s patents?

Afero, Inc.'s patents average 19.4 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 Afero, 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

Afero, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 102 granted patents across 29 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Afero ranks #3,586 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 102 patents across 29 technology areas.

#3,586
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.2/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: -44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3586 · US Corporation #3,586 · 102 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 102 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,586/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH 3form
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 3form, LLC (±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 Afero’s 48.2 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 16.0 pts (33%) Velocity 1.5 pts (3%) Breadth 19.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Afero · this assignee

48
Intellijoint Surgical · near

48
Shenzhen Skyworth-rgb · near

48
Terra CO2 Technology… · near

48
Veltek Associates · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Afero's Innovation Score is 48.2/100 (top 17% 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 Afero?

Each dot is one of Afero’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). Afero’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Afero's grants concentrate

Afero, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 77.5% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (23 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Afero sits between Valmet Technologies Oy and Colder Products Company.

Afero's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Afero, Inc. moved from 48 to 11 grants (0.23x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #3,066. See the growth leaderboard.

Valmet Oy

103
3form

102
Acist Medical Sys…

102
Amarin Pharmaceut…

102
Aveva Software

102
Bostik

102
Central South Uni…

102
Colder Products

102
Afero ◀

102

What this shows Afero holds 102 patents at rank #3,587, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Afero

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,587 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Afero, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Afero ranks #463 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Shenzhen Skyworth-rgb Electronic Co., Ltd. 48 Veltek Associates, Inc. 48 Intellijoint Surgical Inc. 48 Terra CO2 Technology Holdings, Inc. 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Celgene Corporation 19.4 avg Cardio Flow, Inc. 19.4 avg Universal City Studios LLC 19.4 avg AT&T Mobility II LLC 19.4 avg

Afero's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Afero, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	2.0%
2017	17	16.7%
2018	22	21.6%
2019	23	22.5%
2020	19	18.6%
2021	6	5.9%
2022	5	4.9%
2023	6	5.9%
2025partial year	2	2.0%

Which technologies does Afero, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 79

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 77

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 21

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 11

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 7

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 7

H04M - Telephonic Communication 7

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 6

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 5

H04B - Transmission 5

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 4

G16Y - Information AND Communication Technology Specially Adapted FOR THE Internet OF Things [IoT] 3

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 3

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 3

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 2

Top 15 of 29 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

Afero, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Afero, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 77.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #3,586 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Afero, Inc. against Valmet Technologies Oy, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.2/100 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.