Where does Digitalglobe Inc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Digitalglobe Inc ranks #4,191 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 Digitalglobe Inc hold?

Digitalglobe Inc holds 85 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Digitalglobe Inc's Innovation Score?

Digitalglobe 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 Digitalglobe Inc focus on?

Digitalglobe Inc's top technology area is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General) with 56 patents, ranking #274 of 6,389 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Digitalglobe Inc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Digitalglobe Inc's recent grant velocity is -77% 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 Digitalglobe Inc's patents?

Digitalglobe Inc's patents average 10.7 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 Digitalglobe 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

Digitalglobe Inc

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 85 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Digitalglobe ranks #4,191 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 85 patents across 16 technology areas.

#4,191
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.4/100): 10.7
avg claims per patent: -77%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4191 · US Corporation #4,191 · 85 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 85 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,191/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Chemetall
CPC-FOCUS G06T · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -77% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Chemetall 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 Digitalglobe’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 15.4 pts (41%) Velocity 1.4 pts (4%) Breadth 14.1 pts (38%) Claim depth 6.4 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Digitalglobe · this assignee

37
Instart Logic · near

37
Ontel Products · near

37
Robin Systems · near

37
Unity Opto Technology · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Digitalglobe'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 Digitalglobe?

Each dot is one of Digitalglobe’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). Digitalglobe’s own 10.7 claims/patent is at or below the 16.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Digitalglobe's grants concentrate

Digitalglobe Inc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 65.9% of grants classified under G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (20 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Digitalglobe sits between Chemetall GMBH and Hardware Resources, Inc..

Digitalglobe's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Digitalglobe Inc moved from 24 to 5 grants (0.21x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Chemetall

85
Construction Rese…

85
Cooper-standard A…

85
Cormatrix Cardiov…

85
Flint Hills Scien…

85
Genmab A/S

85
Given Imaging

85
Hardware Resources

85
Digitalglobe ◀

85

What this shows Digitalglobe holds 85 patents at rank #4,191, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Digitalglobe

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,191 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Digitalglobe, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation), Digitalglobe ranks #274 of 6,389 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Ontel Products Corporation 37 Robin Systems, Inc. 37 Instart Logic, Inc. 37 Unity Opto Technology Co., Ltd. 37

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.7 here).

Daido Steel Co., Ltd. 10.7 avg Fameccanica.Data S.p.A. 10.7 avg KT&G Corporation 10.7 avg Showa Denko K.K. 10.7 avg

Digitalglobe'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

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Digitalglobe Inc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	14.1%
2016	10	11.8%
2017	14	16.5%
2018	20	23.5%
2019	13	15.3%
2020	9	10.6%
2021	2	2.4%
2022	4	4.7%
2023	1	1.2%

Which technologies does Digitalglobe Inc patent most?

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 56

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 51

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 48

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 13

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 9

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 9

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

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 4

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 3

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 3

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 3

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 2

H04B - Transmission 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

Top 15 of 16 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

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

Digitalglobe Inc's lead technology class is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General), 65.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06T
Ranked #4,191 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Digitalglobe Inc against Chemetall 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

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