Where does Blackbird PLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Blackbird PLC ranks #39,157 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 Blackbird PLC hold?

Blackbird PLC holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 1 technology areas.

What is Blackbird PLC's Innovation Score?

Blackbird PLC has an Innovation Score of 35.3 out of 100 (top 50% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Blackbird PLC focus on?

Blackbird PLC's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 6 patents, ranking #1,879 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 1 CPC subclasses total.

Is Blackbird PLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Blackbird PLC.

What does claim depth mean for Blackbird PLC's patents?

Blackbird PLC's patents average 28.0 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 Blackbird PLC 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

Blackbird PLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 1 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Blackbird ranks #39,157 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 1 technology areas.

#39,157
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 50%
by Innovation Score (35.3/100): 28.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R39157 · Foreign Corporation #39,157 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #39,157/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bitspower Internatio…
CPC-NARROW H04N · 1 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 28.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bitspower International Co., Ltd. (±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 Blackbird’s 35.3 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 6.7 pts (19%) Velocity 10.0 pts (28%) Breadth 3.5 pts (10%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (43%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Blackbird · this assignee

35
Cree Fayetteville · near

35
Genovus Biotechnolog… · near

35
Rockwell · near

35
WINBO-Dongjian… · near

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Blackbird's Innovation Score is 35.3/100 (top 50% 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 Blackbird?

Each dot is one of Blackbird’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). Blackbird’s own 28.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Blackbird's grants concentrate

Blackbird PLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Blackbird sits between Bitspower International Co., Ltd. and Bloom Technologies NV.

Blackbird's three-year grant acceleration

Blackbird PLC shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Bitspower Interna…

6
BK Medical Holding

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Blac

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Blackline Safety

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Blackrock Financi…

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Bliss Industries

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Bloom

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What this shows Blackbird holds 6 patents at rank #39,093, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Blackbird

By rank, the assignees closest to #39,093 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Blackbird, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Blackbird ranks #1,879 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Rockwell LLC 35 Genovus Biotechnologies Inc. 35 Cree Fayetteville, Inc. 35 WINBO-Dongjian Automotive Technology Co., Ltd. 35

Blackbird's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 50% higher than 50% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Blackbird PLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	2	33.3%
2023	2	33.3%
2024	1	16.7%
2025partial year	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Blackbird PLC patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6

Top 1 of 1 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Blackbird PLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Blackbird PLC's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #39,157 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Blackbird PLC against Bitspower International Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.3/100 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

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.