Where does Clear Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Clear Inc. ranks #34,772 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 Clear Inc. hold?

Clear Inc. holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2021, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Clear Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Clear Inc. has an Innovation Score of 34.3 out of 100 (47th 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 Clear Inc. focus on?

Clear Inc.'s top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 4 patents, ranking #2,537 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

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

Clear Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -83% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

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

Clear Inc.'s patents average 24.7 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 Clear 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 Foreign Corporation

Clear Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2021. 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Clear ranks #34,772 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 12 technology areas.

#34,772
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 47th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.3/100): 24.7
avg claims per patent: -83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R34772 · Foreign Corporation #34,772 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #34,772/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Clean Air-Engineerin…
CPC-FOCUS Y02E · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -83% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Clean Air-Engineering—Maritime, 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 Clear’s 34.3 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 7.2 pts (21%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 12.2 pts (36%) Claim depth 14.8 pts (43%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Clear · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Clear's Innovation Score is 34.3/100 (47th 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 Clear?

Each dot is one of Clear’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). Clear’s own 24.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Clear's grants concentrate

Clear Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Clear sits between Clean Air-Engineering—Maritime, Inc. and Climax Foods Inc..

Clean Air-enginee…

7
Clean Diesel (Cdt…

7
Clean Train Propu…

7
Clean-shot Archery

7
Clearvector

7
Clearbrief

7
Clearwater Seafoo…

7
Climax Foods

7
Clear ◀

7

What this shows Clear holds 7 patents at rank #34,837, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Clear

By rank, the assignees closest to #34,837 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Clear's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 47th percentile higher than 47% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Clear Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	3	42.9%
2019	3	42.9%
2021	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Clear Inc. patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

G21C - Nuclear Reactors 4

G21D - Nuclear Power Plant 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

G21F - Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation OR Particle BOMBARDMENT; Treating Radioactively Contaminated MATERIAL; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor 1

G21G - Conversion OF Chemical ELEMENTS; Radioactive Sources 1

C25C - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic Production, Recovery OR Refining OF METALS; Apparatus Therefor 1

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 1

Top 12 of 12 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

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

Clear Inc.'s lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #34,772 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Clear Inc. against Clean Air-Engineering—Maritime, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.3/100 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.