Where does Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd ranks #5,652 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 Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd hold?

Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd holds 60 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd's Innovation Score?

Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd has an Innovation Score of 39.7 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd focus on?

Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 19 patents, ranking #806 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd's recent grant velocity is +89% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd's patents?

Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd's patents average 8.1 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 Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd 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

Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 60 granted patents across 8 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Blackmagic ranks #5,652 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 60 patents across 8 technology areas.

#5,652
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (39.7/100): 8.1
avg claims per patent: +89%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5652 · Foreign Corporation #5,652 · 60 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 60 grants
UPPER-Q #5,652/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Acorn Engineering
CPC-NARROW H04N · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +89% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Acorn Engineering Company (±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 Blackmagic’s 39.7 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 14.2 pts (36%) Velocity 10.7 pts (27%) Breadth 10.0 pts (25%) Claim depth 4.8 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
All-Clad Metalcrafte… · near

40
Blackmagic Design Pty · this assignee

40
Reckitt Benckiser… · near

40
Mead Johnson Nutrition · near

40
Medical Components · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Blackmagic's Innovation Score is 39.7/100 (top 37% 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 Blackmagic?

Each dot is one of Blackmagic’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). Blackmagic’s own 8.1 claims/patent is at or below the 15.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Blackmagic's grants concentrate

Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 31.7% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (13 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Blackmagic sits between Asahi Kasei Medical Co., Ltd. and Caraway Home, Inc..

Blackmagic's three-year grant acceleration

Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd shows 24 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Asahi Kasei Medic…

60
Acorn Engineering

60
Automation Anywhe…

60
Buerkert Werke &…

60
Breathe

60
Cytokinetics

60
Cytonome/ST

60
Caraway Home

60
Blackmagic Design… ◀

60

What this shows Blackmagic holds 60 patents at rank #5,652, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Blackmagic

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,652 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Blackmagic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Blackmagic ranks #806 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Reckitt Benckiser Finish B.V. 40 All-Clad Metalcrafters, L.L.C. 40 Medical Components, Inc. 40 Mead Johnson Nutrition Company 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.1 here).

Teac Corporation 8.1 avg Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd. 8.1 avg Toyo Aluminium Kabushiki Kaisha 8.1 avg Xi'an Jiaotong University 8.1 avg

Blackmagic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% 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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Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	3.3%
2016	2	3.3%
2017	5	8.3%
2018	4	6.7%
2019	5	8.3%
2020	8	13.3%
2021	2	3.3%
2022	3	5.0%
2023	8	13.3%
2024	13	21.7%
2025partial year	8	13.3%

Which technologies does Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 19

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 7

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 6

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 5

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 3

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 3

Top 8 of 8 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

Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 31.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #5,652 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd against Asahi Kasei Medical Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.7/100 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.