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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Automation, Inc. ranks #13,313 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 Automation, Inc. hold?

Automation, Inc. holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Automation, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Automation, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.3 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Automation, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Automation, Inc.'s patents?

Automation, Inc.'s patents average 20.9 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 Automation, 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

Automation, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Automation, Inc. focus on?

Automation, Inc.'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 9 patents, ranking #615 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 23 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: 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, Automation ranks #13,313 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 23 technology areas.

#13,313
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.3/100): 20.9
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13313 · US Corporation #13,313 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,313/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Audible Magic
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Audible Magic Corporation (±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 Automation’s 50.3 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 10.8 pts (21%) Velocity 10.0 pts (20%) Breadth 17.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 12.5 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Automation · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Automation's Innovation Score is 50.3/100 (top 13% 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 Automation?

Each dot is one of Automation’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). Automation’s own 20.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Automation's grants concentrate

Automation, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 40.9% 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 2024 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Automation sits between Audible Magic Corporation and Biodlogics, LLC.

Automation's three-year grant acceleration

Automation, Inc. shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Audible Magic

22
Audioeye

22
Audiowise Technol…

22
Augustine Tempera…

22
Avient

22
Baram Internation…

22
Beijing 7invensun…

22
Biodlogics

22
Automation ◀

22

What this shows Automation holds 22 patents at rank #13,315, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Automation

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,315 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Automation's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% 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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Automation, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	4.5%
2016	1	4.5%
2017	1	4.5%
2018	3	13.6%
2019	1	4.5%
2020	2	9.1%
2021	3	13.6%
2022	2	9.1%
2023	2	9.1%
2024	5	22.7%
2025partial year	1	4.5%

Which technologies does Automation, Inc. 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 9

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 6

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

H04Q - Selecting 5

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

H04B - Transmission 5

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 4

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 3

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 2

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 2

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

A01M - Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 1

B27B - Saws FOR Wood OR Similar MATERIAL; Components OR Accessories Therefor 1

Top 15 of 23 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

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

Automation, Inc.'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), 40.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #13,313 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Automation, Inc. against Audible Magic Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.3/100 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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