Where does Arete Associates rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Arete Associates ranks #11,168 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 Arete Associates hold?

Arete Associates holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Arete Associates's Innovation Score?

Arete Associates has an Innovation Score of 45.1 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Arete Associates's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Arete Associates's recent grant velocity is +0% 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 Arete Associates's patents?

Arete Associates's patents average 16.8 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 Arete Associates 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

Arete Associates

Q: What technology areas does Arete Associates focus on?

Arete Associates's top technology area is H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical) with 11 patents, ranking #128 of 855 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Arete ranks #11,168 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 18 technology areas.

#11,168
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.1/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11168 · US Corporation #11,168 · 27 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,168/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ancra International
CPC-FOCUS H01S · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ancra International 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 Arete’s 45.1 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 11.5 pts (25%) Velocity 8.6 pts (19%) Breadth 15.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arete Associates · this assignee

45
Downing Wellhead… · near

45
OSE Immunotherapeutics · near

45
SOS LAB · near

45
Titan Spine · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Arete's Innovation Score is 45.1/100 (top 24% 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 Arete?

Each dot is one of Arete’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). Arete’s own 16.8 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.

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

Where Arete's grants concentrate

Arete Associates is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 40.7% of grants classified under H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Arete sits between Ancra International LLC and Athalonz, LLC.

Arete's three-year grant acceleration

Arete Associates shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Ancra Internation…

27
Appareo Systems

27
Appian

27
Aqseptence Group

27
Arianegroup

27
Asetek Danmark A/S

27
Asia Connection

27
Athalonz

27
Arete Associates ◀

27

What this shows Arete holds 27 patents at rank #11,169, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Arete

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,169 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimu…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Arete, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimu…), Arete ranks #128 of 855 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

OSE Immunotherapeutics 45 Titan Spine, LLC 45 SOS LAB Co., Ltd 45 Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC 45

Arete's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Arete Associates patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	18.5%
2016	1	3.7%
2017	2	7.4%
2018	2	7.4%
2019	3	11.1%
2020	2	7.4%
2021	2	7.4%
2022	4	14.8%
2023	2	7.4%
2024	3	11.1%
2025partial year	1	3.7%

Which technologies does Arete Associates patent most?

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 11

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 10

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 1

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 1

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Arete Associates's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Arete Associates's lead technology class is H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges), 40.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01S
Ranked #11,168 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Arete Associates against Ancra International LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.1/100 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

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