Where does Apical Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Apical Limited ranks #4,274 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 Apical Limited hold?

Apical Limited holds 83 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2022, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Apical Limited's Innovation Score?

Apical Limited has an Innovation Score of 39.1 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Apical Limited focus on?

Apical Limited's top technology area is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General) with 48 patents, ranking #318 of 6,389 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Apical Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Apical Limited's recent grant velocity is +215% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Apical Limited's patents?

Apical Limited's patents average 18.1 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 Apical Limited 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

Apical Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 83 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2022. 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: G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Apical ranks #4,274 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 83 patents across 10 technology areas.

#4,274
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.1/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: +215%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4274 · Foreign Corporation #4,274 · 83 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 83 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,274/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Acumed
CPC-FOCUS G06T · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +215% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Acumed 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 Apical’s 39.1 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 15.3 pts (39%) Velocity 1.8 pts (5%) Breadth 11.2 pts (29%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Shutterstock · near

39
Apical · this assignee

39
Hardware Resources · near

39
Infinitus (CHINA) · near

39
Lifeline Scientific · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Apical's Innovation Score is 39.1/100 (top 39% 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 Apical?

Each dot is one of Apical’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). Apical’s own 18.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Apical's grants concentrate

Apical Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 57.8% of grants classified under G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (28 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Apical sits between Zhuhai Pantum Electronics Co., Ltd. and BenQ Materials Corporation.

Apical's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Apical Limited moved from 57 to 15 grants (0.26x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Zhuhai Pantum

84
Arteris

83
Acumed

83
Aisin Technical C…

83
Beiersdorf

83
Beijing Research…

83
Bell Textron

83
Benq Materials

83
Apical ◀

83

What this shows Apical holds 83 patents at rank #4,275, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Apical

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,275 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Apical, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation), Apical ranks #318 of 6,389 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Hardware Resources, Inc. 39 Infinitus (CHINA) Company Ltd. 39 Lifeline Scientific, Inc. 39 Shutterstock, Inc. 39

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.1 here).

Guided Therapy Systems, LLC 18.1 avg Coupa Software Incorporated 18.1 avg Cambricon Technologies Corporation Limited 18.1 avg Mueller Martini Holding AG 18.1 avg

Apical's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2022

Grants by year

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

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Apical Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	3.6%
2017	1	1.2%
2018	7	8.4%
2019	9	10.8%
2020	20	24.1%
2021	28	33.7%
2022	15	18.1%

Which technologies does Apical Limited patent most?

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 48

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 32

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 26

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 21

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 19

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 11

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

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 1

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Apical Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Apical Limited's lead technology class is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General), 57.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06T
Ranked #4,274 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Apical Limited against Zhuhai Pantum Electronics Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.1/100 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.