Where does Blackship Technologies Development LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Blackship Technologies Development LLC ranks #34,524 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 Blackship Technologies Development LLC hold?

Blackship Technologies Development LLC holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Blackship Technologies Development LLC's Innovation Score?

Blackship Technologies Development LLC has an Innovation Score of 41.5 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Blackship Technologies Development LLC focus on?

Blackship Technologies Development LLC's top technology area is A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices) with 7 patents, ranking #66 of 214 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Blackship Technologies Development LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Blackship Technologies Development LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Blackship Technologies Development LLC's patents?

Blackship Technologies Development LLC's patents average 19.4 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 Blackship Technologies Development LLC 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

Blackship Technologies Development LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Blackship ranks #34,524 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 7 technology areas.

#34,524
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R34524 · US Corporation #34,524 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #34,524/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Black Swan
CPC-NARROW A24F · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Black Swan, 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 Blackship’s 41.5 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 7.2 pts (17%) Velocity 13.3 pts (32%) Breadth 9.4 pts (23%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Blackship Development · this assignee

42
Enza Zaden Beheer B V · near

42
Illumio · near

42
Limagrain Europe · near

42
Syncrude Canada in… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Blackship's Innovation Score is 41.5/100 (top 33% 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 Blackship?

Each dot is one of Blackship’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). Blackship’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Blackship's grants concentrate

Blackship Technologies Development LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Blackship sits between Black Swan, LLC and BlinkBio, Inc..

Blackship's three-year grant acceleration

Blackship Technologies Development LLC shows 4 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.

Black Swan

7
Blackdot

7
Blackjack Product…

7
Blackshark ai

7
Blasch Precision…

7
Blink Device

7
Blink Forward

7
Blinkbio

7
Blackship Develop… ◀

7

What this shows Blackship holds 7 patents at rank #34,559, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Blackship

By rank, the assignees closest to #34,559 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A24F (Smokers' Requisites)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Blackship, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A24F (Smokers' Requisites), Blackship ranks #66 of 214 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Syncrude Canada Ltd. in trust for the owners of the Syncrude Project as such owners exist now and in the future 42 Limagrain Europe S.A. 42 Illumio, Inc. 42 Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. 42

Blackship's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Blackship Technologies Development LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	14.3%
2021	1	14.3%
2022	1	14.3%
2023	1	14.3%
2024	2	28.6%
2025partial year	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Blackship Technologies Development LLC patent most?

A24F - Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices 7

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 3

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 3

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 1

A24D - CIGARS; CIGARETTES; Tobacco Smoke FILTERS; Mouthpieces FOR Cigars OR CIGARETTES; Manufacture OF Tobacco Smoke Filters OR Mouthpieces 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Blackship Technologies Development LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Blackship Technologies Development LLC's lead technology class is A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A24F
Ranked #34,524 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Blackship Technologies Development LLC against Black Swan, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.5/100 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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