Where does Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd. ranks #3,219 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 Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd. hold?

Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd. holds 116 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 42.9 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +42% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd.'s patents average 16.2 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 Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd. 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 Foreign Corporation

Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd. focus on?

Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 94 patents. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 116 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Angel ranks #3,219 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 116 patents across 22 technology areas.

#3,219
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.9/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: +42%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3219 · Foreign Corporation #3,219 · 116 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 116 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,219/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AMO Groningen B V
CPC-FOCUS A63F · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +42% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AMO Groningen B.V. (±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
3form · near

43
Angel Playing Cards · this assignee

43
Ferno-Washington · near

43
Uptake · near

43
Visa U · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Angel's Innovation Score is 42.9/100 (top 30% 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 Angel's grants concentrate

Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 81% of grants classified under A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (41 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Angel sits between West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd. and China Mobile Communication Co., Ltd Research Institute.

Angel's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd. moved from 83 to 1 grants (0.01x 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 #3,280. See the growth leaderboard.

West Pharma Servi…

117
Woodpeckers

117
Yamada Manufactur…

117
AMO Groningen B V

116
Arena Pharmaceuti…

116
Biotronik

116
Booz Allen Hamilt…

116
China Mobile Comm…

116
Angel Playing Car… ◀

116

What this shows Angel holds 116 patents at rank #3,219, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Angel

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,219 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63F (Card)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Angel, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

3form, LLC 43 Visa U.S.A. Inc. 43 Ferno-Washington, Inc. 43 Uptake Technologies, Inc. 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.2 here).

Line Plus Corporation 16.2 avg ZTE (USA) Inc. 16.2 avg The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army 16.2 avg Campagnolo S.R.L. 16.2 avg

Angel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	2.6%
2016	4	3.4%
2017	11	9.5%
2018	14	12.1%
2019	16	13.8%
2020	41	35.3%
2021	26	22.4%
2022	1	0.9%

Which technologies does Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd. patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 94

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 74

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 25

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 22

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 11

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 10

A44C - Personal Adornments, e.g. JEWELLERY; Coins 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 6

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 5

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 5

G01G - Weighing 5

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 5

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 4

Top 15 of 22 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,219

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

42.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 81% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #3,219 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd. against West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.9/100 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

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