Where does Discovery Purchaser Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Discovery Purchaser Corporation ranks #16,734 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 Purchaser Corporation hold?

Discovery Purchaser Corporation holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2023 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Discovery Purchaser Corporation's Innovation Score?

Discovery Purchaser Corporation has an Innovation Score of 56.6 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Discovery Purchaser Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Discovery Purchaser Corporation.

What does claim depth mean for Discovery Purchaser Corporation's patents?

Discovery Purchaser Corporation's patents average 18.7 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 Discovery Purchaser Corporation 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

Discovery Purchaser Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Discovery Purchaser Corporation focus on?

Discovery Purchaser Corporation's top technology area is A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators) with 10 patents, ranking #133 of 1,216 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2023–2025. 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: A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Discovery ranks #16,734 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 19 technology areas.

#16,734
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.6/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16734 · US Corporation #16,734 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,734/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH DataStax
CPC-FOCUS A01N · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2023–2025 · 3y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: DataStax, Inc. (±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 56.6 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 10.0 pts (18%) Velocity 20.0 pts (35%) Breadth 15.4 pts (27%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Discovery Purchaser · this assignee

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Discovery's Innovation Score is 56.6/100 (top 6% 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 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Discovery's grants concentrate

Discovery Purchaser Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 58.8% of grants classified under A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (6 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2023. By volume, Discovery sits between DataStax, Inc. and Domantis Limited.

Discovery's three-year grant acceleration

Discovery Purchaser Corporation shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Datastax

17
Deepnorth

17
Digital Signal

17
Dimensional Insig…

17
Dishcraft Robotics

17
Dodge Industrial

17
Dolby Video Compr…

17
Domantis

17
Discovery Purchas… ◀

17

What this shows Discovery holds 17 patents at rank #16,744, 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 #16,744 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR…)

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)

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2023–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2023–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Discovery Purchaser Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2023	5	29.4%
2024	6	35.3%
2025partial year	6	35.3%

Which technologies does Discovery Purchaser Corporation patent most?

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 10

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 7

E01H - Street CLEANING; Cleaning OF Permanent WAYS; Cleaning BEACHES; Dispersing ; OR PREVENTING; FOG IN General ; Cleaning Street OR Railway Furniture OR Tunnel Walls 6

A01M - Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants 5

A01P - Biocidal, Pest Repellant, Pest Attractant OR Plant Growth Regulatory Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Preparations 4

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 3

B61D - Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

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 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

B61L - Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic 1

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 1

Top 15 of 19 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 Purchaser Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Discovery Purchaser Corporation's lead technology class is A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators), 58.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01N
Ranked #16,734 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Discovery Purchaser Corporation against DataStax, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.6/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.