Where does DERQ Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), DERQ Inc. ranks #20,999 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 DERQ Inc. hold?

DERQ Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is DERQ Inc.'s Innovation Score?

DERQ Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.9 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does DERQ Inc. focus on?

DERQ Inc.'s top technology area is G08G (TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS) with 13 patents. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

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

DERQ Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +1000% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

DERQ Inc.'s patents average 24.2 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 DERQ 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

DERQ Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: G08G (TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, DERQ ranks #20,999 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 5 technology areas.

#20,999
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (44.9/100): 24.2
avg claims per patent: +1000%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20999 · Foreign Corporation #20,999 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #20,999/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH DBG GROUP INVESTMENTS
CPC-NARROW G08G · 5 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +1000% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: DBG Group Investments, 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
DERQ · this assignee

45
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows DERQ's Innovation Score is 44.9/100 (top 24% 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 DERQ's grants concentrate

DERQ Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G08G (TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, DERQ sits between DBG Group Investments, Llc and Discord Inc..

DBG Group Investm…

13
Delta Galil Indus…

13
Delvaux Createur

13
Demby Development

13
DH2I

13
Diamond GAME Ente…

13
Diesel S P A

13
Discord

13
DERQ ◀

13

What this shows DERQ holds 13 patents at rank #20,992, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near DERQ

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,992 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G08G (Traffic Control Systems)

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

DERQ's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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DERQ Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	7.7%
2020	2	15.4%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	4	30.8%
2023	3	23.1%
2024	1	7.7%
2025partial year	1	7.7%

Which technologies does DERQ Inc. patent most?

G08G - TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS 13

G06N - COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS 10

B60Q - ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL 3

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 3

H04W - WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 3

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,999

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

44.9 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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