Where does Blackline Safety Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Blackline Safety Corp. ranks #39,159 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 Blackline Safety Corp. hold?

Blackline Safety Corp. holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Blackline Safety Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Blackline Safety Corp. has an Innovation Score of 29.3 out of 100 (30th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Blackline Safety Corp. focus on?

Blackline Safety Corp.'s top technology area is G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems) with 4 patents, ranking #566 of 2,091 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Blackline Safety Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Blackline Safety Corp.'s recent grant velocity is +300% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Blackline Safety Corp.'s patents?

Blackline Safety Corp.'s patents average 17.0 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 Blackline Safety Corp. 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

Blackline Safety Corp.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Blackline ranks #39,159 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 5 technology areas.

#39,159
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 30th percentile
by Innovation Score (29.3/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: +300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R39159 · Foreign Corporation #39,159 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #39,159/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH BK Medical Holding
CPC-NARROW G08B · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: BK Medical Holding Company, 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 Blackline’s 29.3 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 (23%) Velocity 4.4 pts (15%) Breadth 7.9 pts (27%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Blackline Safety · this assignee

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Blackline's Innovation Score is 29.3/100 (30th percentile 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 Blackline?

Each dot is one of Blackline’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). Blackline’s own 17.0 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.

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

Where Blackline's grants concentrate

Blackline Safety Corp. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Blackline sits between BK Medical Holding Company, Inc. and Blue Green Works LLC.

Blackline's three-year grant acceleration

Blackline Safety Corp. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

BK Medical Holding

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Blackbird

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Bliss Industries

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Bloom

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Blue Green Works

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Blackline Safety ◀

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What this shows Blackline holds 6 patents at rank #39,094, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Blackline

By rank, the assignees closest to #39,094 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G08B (Signalling OR Calling Systems)

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

Blackline's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 30th percentile higher than 30% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Blackline Safety Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	16.7%
2020	2	33.3%
2022	1	16.7%
2024	1	16.7%
2025partial year	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Blackline Safety Corp. patent most?

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 4

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

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 2

Top 5 of 5 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

Blackline Safety Corp.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Blackline Safety Corp.'s lead technology class is G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G08B
Ranked #39,159 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Blackline Safety Corp. against BK Medical Holding Company, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.3/100 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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