Where does Appareo Systems, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Appareo Systems, LLC ranks #11,164 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 Appareo Systems, LLC hold?

Appareo Systems, LLC holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Appareo Systems, LLC's Innovation Score?

Appareo Systems, LLC has an Innovation Score of 51.3 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Appareo Systems, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Appareo Systems, LLC's recent grant velocity is -20% 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 Appareo Systems, LLC's patents?

Appareo Systems, LLC's patents average 11.8 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 Appareo Systems, LLC 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

Appareo Systems, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Appareo Systems, LLC focus on?

Appareo Systems, LLC's top technology area is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves) with 8 patents, ranking #672 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 30 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Appareo ranks #11,164 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 30 technology areas.

#11,164
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.3/100): 11.8
avg claims per patent: -20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11164 · US Corporation #11,164 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,164/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Akili Interactive Labs
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Akili Interactive Labs, 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 Appareo’s 51.3 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 11.5 pts (22%) Velocity 13.3 pts (26%) Breadth 19.4 pts (38%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Appareo Systems · this assignee

51
Kyushu Institute OF… · near

51
Northwest Instrument · near

51
Oversec UAB · near

51
Vektor Medical · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Appareo's Innovation Score is 51.3/100 (top 12% 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 Appareo?

Each dot is one of Appareo’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). Appareo’s own 11.8 claims/patent is at or below the 18.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Appareo's grants concentrate

Appareo Systems, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 29.6% of grants classified under G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Appareo sits between Akili Interactive Labs, Inc. and ArianeGroup GmbH.

Appareo's three-year grant acceleration

Appareo Systems, LLC shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Akili Interactive…

27
Ameristar Perimet…

27
Ampt

27
Ancra Internation…

27
Appian

27
Aqseptence Group

27
Arete Associates

27
Arianegroup

27
Appareo Systems ◀

27

What this shows Appareo holds 27 patents at rank #11,166, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Appareo

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,166 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Appareo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01S (Radio Direction-finding), Appareo ranks #672 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Northwest Instrument Inc. 51 Vektor Medical, Inc. 51 Oversec, UAB 51 Kyushu Institute OF Technology 51

Appareo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Appareo Systems, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	18.5%
2016	1	3.7%
2017	5	18.5%
2018	4	14.8%
2020	2	7.4%
2021	2	7.4%
2022	3	11.1%
2023	1	3.7%
2024	4	14.8%

Which technologies does Appareo Systems, LLC patent most?

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 8

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 7

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 7

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 5

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 4

H04B - Transmission 4

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 4

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 4

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

Top 15 of 30 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

Appareo Systems, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Appareo Systems, LLC's lead technology class is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra), 29.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #11,164 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Appareo Systems, LLC against Akili Interactive Labs, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.3/100 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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