Where does Contentguard Holdings, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Contentguard Holdings, Inc. ranks #26,048 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Contentguard Holdings, Inc. hold?

Contentguard Holdings, Inc. holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2020, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Contentguard Holdings, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Contentguard Holdings, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 34.5 out of 100 (top 52% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Contentguard Holdings, Inc. focus on?

Contentguard Holdings, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Contentguard Holdings, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Contentguard Holdings, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -89% 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 Contentguard Holdings, Inc.'s patents?

Contentguard Holdings, Inc.'s patents average 26.4 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 Contentguard Holdings, 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 US Corporation

Contentguard Holdings, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2020. 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: G06F (ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Contentguard ranks #26,048 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 10 technology areas.

#26,048
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 52%
by Innovation Score (34.5/100): 26.4
avg claims per patent: -89%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26048 · US Corporation #26,048 · 10 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,048/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH COMFORT OFFICE FURNI…
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 26.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -89% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Comfort Office Furniture Co., Ltd Guangdong (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Genesense Technology · near

34
Contentguard Holdings · this assignee

34
Latchways · near

34
Qcify · near

34
Cambridge Sound Mana… · near

34
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Contentguard's Innovation Score is 34.5/100 (top 52% 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.

Where Contentguard's grants concentrate

Contentguard Holdings, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 90% of grants classified under G06F (ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Contentguard sits between Comfort Office Furniture Co., Ltd Guangdong and Corners, Co., Ltd..

Comfort Office Fu…

10
Compagnie Industr…

10
Compugroup Medical

10
Connectquest

10
Contipro A S

10
Contramed

10
Corelex Shin-ei

10
Corners

10
Contentguard Hold… ◀

10

What this shows Contentguard holds 10 patents at rank #25,991, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Contentguard

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,991 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital DATA Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Contentguard, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

Qcify, Inc. 34 Latchways Plc 34 Cambridge Sound Management, Inc. 34 Genesense Technology Inc. 34

Contentguard's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 Top 52% higher than 48% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2020

Grants by year

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

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Contentguard Holdings, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	10.0%
2017	5	50.0%
2018	2	20.0%
2019	1	10.0%
2020	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Contentguard Holdings, Inc. patent most?

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 9

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 9

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 7

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 6

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 3

Y10S - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS 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

G07C - TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE 1

G07F - COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS 1

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#26,048

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

34.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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