Where does Desert Valley Date, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Desert Valley Date, Inc. ranks #34,995 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 Desert Valley Date, Inc. hold?

Desert Valley Date, Inc. holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Desert Valley Date, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Desert Valley Date, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 28.9 out of 100 (29th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Desert Valley Date, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Desert Valley Date, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Desert Valley Date, Inc.'s patents?

Desert Valley Date, Inc.'s patents average 18.9 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 Desert Valley Date, 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

Desert Valley Date, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Desert Valley Date, Inc. focus on?

Desert Valley Date, Inc.'s top technology area is B07C (Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking) with 4 patents, ranking #64 of 282 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: B07C (Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Desert ranks #34,995 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 4 technology areas.

#34,995
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 29th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.9/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R34995 · US Corporation #34,995 · 7 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #34,995/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dematic Systems
CPC-NARROW B07C · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dematic Systems 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 Desert’s 28.9 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 7.2 pts (25%) Velocity 3.3 pts (11%) Breadth 7.1 pts (25%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (39%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Desert Valley Date · this assignee

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Desert's Innovation Score is 28.9/100 (29th percentile 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 Desert?

Each dot is one of Desert’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). Desert’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Desert's grants concentrate

Desert Valley Date, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under B07C (Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Desert sits between Dematic Systems GmbH and Destination 2D Inc..

Desert's three-year grant acceleration

Desert Valley Date, Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Dematic Systems

7
Denroy Group

7
Dentec Safety Spe…

7
Deringer-ney

7
Design LED Produc…

7
Design West

7
Designerscope

7
Destination 2D

7
Desert Valley Date ◀

7

What this shows Desert holds 7 patents at rank #35,037, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Desert

By rank, the assignees closest to #35,037 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B07C (Postal Sorting)

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

Desert's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 29th percentile higher than 29% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

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

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Desert Valley Date, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	28.6%
2020	1	14.3%
2021	1	14.3%
2022	1	14.3%
2025partial year	2	28.6%

Which technologies does Desert Valley Date, Inc. patent most?

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 3

A23N - Machines OR Apparatus FOR Treating Harvested Fruit, Vegetables OR Flower Bulbs IN Bulk, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Peeling Vegetables OR Fruit IN BULK; Apparatus FOR Preparing Animal Feeding- Stuffs 3

Top 4 of 4 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

Desert Valley Date, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Desert Valley Date, Inc.'s lead technology class is B07C (Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B07C
Ranked #34,995 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Desert Valley Date, Inc. against Dematic Systems GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.9/100 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

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