Where does Crackle, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Crackle, Inc. ranks #16,709 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 Crackle, Inc. hold?

Crackle, Inc. holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2023, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Crackle, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Crackle, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.4 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Crackle, Inc. focus on?

Crackle, Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 9 patents, ranking #1,385 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

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

Crackle, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +13% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

Crackle, Inc.'s patents average 18.1 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 Crackle, 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

Crackle, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2023. 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Crackle ranks #16,709 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 14 technology areas.

#16,709
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.4/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: +13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16709 · US Corporation #16,709 · 17 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,709/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ContiTech Luftfeders…
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ContiTech Luftfedersysteme GmbH (±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 Crackle’s 37.4 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 (27%) Velocity 3.3 pts (9%) Breadth 13.2 pts (35%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Crackle · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Crackle's Innovation Score is 37.4/100 (top 44% 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 Crackle?

Each dot is one of Crackle’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). Crackle’s own 18.1 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.

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

Where Crackle's grants concentrate

Crackle, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 52.9% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Crackle sits between ContiTech Luftfedersysteme GmbH and Custom Medical Applications, Inc..

Crackle's three-year grant acceleration

Crackle, Inc. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Contitech Luftfed…

17
Contitech Vibrati…

17
Coreline Soft

17
Country Casual Te…

17
Creganna Unlimited

17
Critical Innovati…

17
Crucell Holland B…

17
Custom Medical Ap…

17
Crackle ◀

17

What this shows Crackle holds 17 patents at rank #16,714, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Crackle

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,714 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Crackle's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Crackle, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	3	17.6%
2018	2	11.8%
2019	3	17.6%
2020	4	23.5%
2021	1	5.9%
2022	2	11.8%
2023	2	11.8%

Which technologies does Crackle, Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 9

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

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 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 6

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

H03G - Control OF Amplification 2

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

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

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

Top 14 of 14 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

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

Crackle, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 52.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #16,709 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Crackle, Inc. against ContiTech Luftfedersysteme GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.4/100 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.