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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Daktronics, Inc. ranks #8,569 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 Daktronics, Inc. hold?

Daktronics, Inc. holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Daktronics, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Daktronics, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.0 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Daktronics, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +6% 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 Daktronics, Inc.'s patents?

Daktronics, Inc.'s patents average 17.7 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 Daktronics, 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

Daktronics, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Daktronics, Inc. focus on?

Daktronics, Inc.'s top technology area is G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS) with 29 patents. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Daktronics ranks #8,569 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 20 technology areas.

#8,569
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (44.0/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: +6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8569 · US Corporation #8,569 · 37 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,569/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Daimler Truck North…
CPC-FOCUS G09F · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Daimler Truck North America 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bio-rad Europe · near

44
Daktronics · this assignee

44
Innovative Timing Sy… · near

44
Key Technology · near

44
Power Design · near

44
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Daktronics, Inc. stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-FLAT, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #8,569 of 50,000; Innovation Score 44.0/100 sits in the top 27% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Daimler Truck North America Llc (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Daktronics, Inc. has been granted 37 US utility patents between 2015 and 2024, placing Daktronics, Inc. at #8,569 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 20 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 17.7 claims per patent with primary concentration in G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS). As a US Corporation, Daktronics, Inc. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Daktronics sits between Diveplane Corporation (37 patents, rank #8,570) and Diamet Corporation (37 patents, rank #8,578) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 44.0/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 19 grants, compared with 18 in the 2015–2019 window, a +6% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Daktronics, Inc.'s 17.7 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 20 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Diveplane

37
Doosan FUEL CELL…

37
Draeger Safety UK

37
Daimler Truck Nor…

37
Dal-tile

37
Daniel Defense

37
Decision Sciences…

37
Diamet

37
Daktronics ◀

37

What this shows Daktronics holds 37 patents at rank #8,574, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Daktronics

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,574 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G09F (Displaying)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Bio-rad Europe Gmbh 44 Key Technology, Inc. 44 Innovative Timing Systems, Llc 44 Electronic Power Design, Inc. 44

Daktronics's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Daktronics, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	5.4%
2016	2	5.4%
2017	4	10.8%
2018	8	21.6%
2019	2	5.4%
2020	6	16.2%
2021	4	10.8%
2022	2	5.4%
2023	3	8.1%
2024	4	10.8%

Which technologies does Daktronics, Inc. patent most?

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS 29

H05K - PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS 19

F16B - DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING 7

F21V - FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 7

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 7

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 7

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 7

G09G - ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION 6

F16M - FRAMES, CASINGS OR BEDS OF ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS, NOT SPECIFIC TO ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; SUPPORTS 4

H05B - ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL 4

F21Y - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, RELATING TO THE FORM OR THE KIND OF THE LIGHT SOURCES OR OF THE COLOUR OF THE LIGHT EMITTED 3

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE 3

H10H - INORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES HAVING POTENTIAL BARRIERS 2

H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10 2

H04R - LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS 2

Top 15 of 20 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#8,569

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

44.0 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

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