Where does Educational Testing Service rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Educational Testing Service ranks #3,369 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 Educational Testing Service hold?

Educational Testing Service holds 110 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Educational Testing Service's Innovation Score?

Educational Testing Service has an Innovation Score of 44.6 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Educational Testing Service's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Educational Testing Service's recent grant velocity is -22% 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 Educational Testing Service's patents?

Educational Testing Service's patents average 20.7 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 Educational Testing Service 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

Educational Testing Service

Q: What technology areas does Educational Testing Service focus on?

Educational Testing Service's top technology area is G09B (Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams) with 66 patents. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 110 granted patents across 13 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: G09B (Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Educational ranks #3,369 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 110 patents across 13 technology areas.

#3,369
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.6/100): 20.7
avg claims per patent: -22%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3369 · US Corporation #3,369 · 110 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 110 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,369/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Albert-Ludwigs-Unive…
CPC-FOCUS G09B · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -22% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Avinger · near

45
Chia Tai Tianqing… · near

45
Educational Testing… · this assignee

45
Samsonite IP… · near

45
Telia AB · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Educational's Innovation Score is 44.6/100 (top 25% 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.

Where Educational's grants concentrate

Educational Testing Service is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under G09B (Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (17 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2024. By volume, Educational sits between Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg and FuelCell Energy, Inc..

Educational's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Educational Testing Service moved from 42 to 20 grants (0.48x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,750. See the growth leaderboard.

Albert-ludwigs-un…

110
Boston Scientific

110
Centre Hospitalie…

110
Cepheid

110
Enza Zaden Beheer…

110
Experian Informat…

110
Flowserve Managem…

110
Fuelcell Energy

110
Educational Testi… ◀

110

What this shows Educational holds 110 patents at rank #3,369, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Educational

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,369 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G09B (Educational OR Demonstration Appliances)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Educational, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. 45 Samsonite IP Holdings S.a r.l. 45 Telia Company AB 45 Avinger, Inc. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.7 here).

Saipem S.P.A. 20.7 avg Alitheon, Inc. 20.7 avg Harnischfeger Technologies, Inc. 20.7 avg Gambro Lundia AB 20.7 avg

Educational's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% 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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Educational Testing Service patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	7.3%
2016	14	12.7%
2017	14	12.7%
2018	5	4.5%
2019	17	15.5%
2020	15	13.6%
2021	10	9.1%
2022	8	7.3%
2023	9	8.2%
2024	3	2.7%
2025partial year	7	6.4%

Which technologies does Educational Testing Service patent most?

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 66

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 65

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 40

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 30

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

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

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

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

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

Top 13 of 13 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,369

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

44.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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Educational Testing Service's lead technology class is G09B (Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G09B
Ranked #3,369 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Educational Testing Service against Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.6/100 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

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