Where does Descartes Labs, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Descartes Labs, Inc. ranks #15,224 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 Descartes Labs, Inc. hold?

Descartes Labs, Inc. holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Descartes Labs, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Descartes Labs, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.8 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Descartes Labs, Inc. focus on?

Descartes Labs, Inc.'s top technology area is G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding) with 16 patents, ranking #622 of 5,108 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

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

Descartes Labs, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -10% 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 Descartes Labs, Inc.'s patents?

Descartes Labs, Inc.'s patents average 22.7 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 Descartes Labs, 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

Descartes Labs, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. 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: G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Descartes ranks #15,224 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 7 technology areas.

#15,224
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.8/100): 22.7
avg claims per patent: -10%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15224 · US Corporation #15,224 · 19 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,224/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Daesung Electric
CPC-NARROW G06V · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -10% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Daesung Electric Co., Ltd. (±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 Descartes’s 37.8 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 10.3 pts (27%) Velocity 4.4 pts (12%) Breadth 9.4 pts (25%) Claim depth 13.6 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Descartes Labs · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Descartes's Innovation Score is 37.8/100 (top 43% 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 Descartes?

Each dot is one of Descartes’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). Descartes’s own 22.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Descartes's grants concentrate

Descartes Labs, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 84.2% of grants classified under G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Descartes sits between Daesung Electric Co., Ltd. and DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH.

Descartes's three-year grant acceleration

Descartes Labs, Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Daesung Electric

19
Daimay North Amer…

19
Damon Motors

19
Deben Group Indus…

19
Differential Dyna…

19
Drayson (Europe)

19
Duke

19
DÜRkopp FÖRdertec…

19
Descartes Labs ◀

19

What this shows Descartes holds 19 patents at rank #15,227, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Descartes

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,227 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding)

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

Descartes's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Descartes Labs, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	4	21.1%
2019	6	31.6%
2020	2	10.5%
2021	1	5.3%
2022	2	10.5%
2023	2	10.5%
2024	2	10.5%

Which technologies does Descartes Labs, Inc. patent most?

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 16

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 15

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 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

Top 7 of 7 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

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

Descartes Labs, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding), 84.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06V
Ranked #15,224 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Descartes Labs, Inc. against Daesung Electric Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.8/100 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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