Where does Discovery Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Discovery Limited ranks #14,570 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 Discovery Limited hold?

Discovery Limited holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Discovery Limited's Innovation Score?

Discovery Limited has an Innovation Score of 32.2 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Discovery Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Discovery Limited's recent grant velocity is -42% 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 Discovery Limited's patents?

Discovery Limited's patents average 9.5 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 Discovery Limited 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

Discovery Limited

Q: What technology areas does Discovery Limited focus on?

Discovery Limited's top technology area is 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) with 7 patents, ranking #1,796 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Discovery ranks #14,570 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 9 technology areas.

#14,570
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.2/100): 9.5
avg claims per patent: -42%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14570 · Foreign Corporation #14,570 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,570/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Des-Case
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -42% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Des-Case Corporation (±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 Discovery’s 32.2 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 10.5 pts (33%) Velocity 5.3 pts (17%) Breadth 10.6 pts (33%) Claim depth 5.7 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Discovery · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Discovery's Innovation Score is 32.2/100 (40th 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 Discovery?

Each dot is one of Discovery’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). Discovery’s own 9.5 claims/patent is at or below the 16.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Discovery's grants concentrate

Discovery Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 35% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Discovery sits between Des-Case Corporation and E.V. Offshore Limited.

Discovery's three-year grant acceleration

Discovery Limited shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Des-case

20
Diamond Tech

20
Diehl Aviation Gi…

20
Digital Diagnosti…

20
Douglas Dynamics…

20
Duality

20
Duerr Systems

20
E V Offshore

20
Discovery ◀

20

What this shows Discovery holds 20 patents at rank #14,576, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Discovery

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,576 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Discovery's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Discovery Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.0%
2016	2	10.0%
2017	2	10.0%
2018	5	25.0%
2019	2	10.0%
2020	2	10.0%
2021	1	5.0%
2022	2	10.0%
2023	1	5.0%
2024	1	5.0%
2025partial year	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Discovery Limited patent most?

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 7

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

H04Q - Selecting 4

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 4

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Discovery Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Discovery Limited's lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 35% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #14,570 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Discovery Limited against Des-Case Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.2/100 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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