Is Colorado Seminary Which Owns and Operates The University of Denver's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Colorado Seminary Which Owns and Operates The University of Denver's recent grant velocity is -11% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Colorado Seminary Which Owns and Operates The University of Denver

Q: Where does Colorado Seminary Which Owns and Operates The University of Denver rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Colorado Seminary Which Owns and Operates The University of Denver ranks #16,697 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the Colorado Seminary Which Owns and Operates The University of Denver 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 PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 27 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2022. 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: B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Colorado ranks #16,697 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 27 technology areas.

#16,697
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.2/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: -11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16697 · US Corporation #16,697 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,697/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cobalt Iron
CPC-FOCUS B64U · 27 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cobalt Iron, 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 Colorado’s 38.2 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 10.0 pts (26%) Velocity 0.6 pts (2%) Breadth 18.4 pts (48%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Colorado Seminary… · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Colorado's Innovation Score is 38.2/100 (top 41% 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 Colorado?

Each dot is one of Colorado’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). Colorado’s own 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Colorado's grants concentrate

Colorado Seminary Which Owns and Operates The University of Denver is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 29.4% of grants classified under B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Colorado sits between Cobalt Iron, Inc. and Coreline Soft Co., Ltd..

Colorado's three-year grant acceleration

Colorado Seminary Which Owns and Operates The University of Denver shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Cobalt Iron

17
Cognizant Trizett…

17
Cold Jet

17
College of Willia…

17
Concurrent

17
Contitech Luftfed…

17
Contitech Vibrati…

17
Coreline Soft

17
Colorado Seminary… ◀

17

What this shows Colorado holds 17 patents at rank #16,708, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Colorado

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,708 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV])

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

Colorado's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Colorado Seminary Which Owns and Operates The University of Denver patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	11.8%
2018	3	17.6%
2019	4	23.5%
2020	7	41.2%
2022	1	5.9%

Which technologies does Colorado Seminary Which Owns and Operates The University of Denver patent most?

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 5

B64F - Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide 4

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 3

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 3

H02S - Generation OF Electric Power BY Conversion OF Infrared Radiation, Visible Light OR Ultraviolet Light, e.g. Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 2

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

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

Top 15 of 27 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

Colorado Seminary Which Owns and Operates The University of Denver's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Colorado Seminary Which Owns and Operates The University of Denver's lead technology class is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor), 29.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64U
Ranked #16,697 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Colorado Seminary Which Owns and Operates The University of Denver against Cobalt Iron, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.2/100 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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