Where does Eight Holdings LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Eight Holdings LLC ranks #8,192 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 Eight Holdings LLC hold?

Eight Holdings LLC holds 39 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Eight Holdings LLC's Innovation Score?

Eight Holdings LLC has an Innovation Score of 59.4 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Eight Holdings LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Eight Holdings LLC's recent grant velocity is +625% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Eight Holdings LLC's patents?

Eight Holdings LLC's patents average 12.7 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 Eight Holdings LLC 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

Eight Holdings LLC

Q: What technology areas does Eight Holdings LLC focus on?

Eight Holdings LLC's top technology area is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance) with 9 patents, ranking #65 of 374 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 39 granted patents across 29 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: F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Eight ranks #8,192 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 39 patents across 29 technology areas.

#8,192
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.4/100): 12.7
avg claims per patent: +625%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8192 · US Corporation #8,192 · 39 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 39 grants
UPPER-Q #8,192/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Deep Science
CPC-FOCUS F41A · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +625% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Deep Science, LLC (±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 Eight’s 59.4 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 12.7 pts (21%) Velocity 20.0 pts (34%) Breadth 19.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Eight Holdings · this assignee

59
Pensando Systems · near

59
Shanghai Ocean… · near

59
Circlesx · near

59
Positec Power Tools… · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Eight's Innovation Score is 59.4/100 (top 4% 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 Eight?

Each dot is one of Eight’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). Eight’s own 12.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Eight's grants concentrate

Eight Holdings LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 23.1% of grants classified under F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Eight sits between Dsm&t Company Inc. and Evolution Optiks Limited.

Eight's three-year grant acceleration

Eight Holdings LLC shows 24 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Dsm&t

39
Deep Science

39
Dick's Sporting G…

39
E-link Plastic &…

39
Espressif Systems…

39
Eternal Plant Boi…

39
Everlight

39
Evolution Optiks

39
Eight Holdings ◀

39

What this shows Eight holds 39 patents at rank #8,191, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Eight

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,191 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Eight, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…), Eight ranks #65 of 374 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Pensando Systems Inc. 59 Shanghai Ocean University 59 Circlesx LLC 59 Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. 59

Eight's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Eight Holdings LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.6%
2016	1	2.6%
2017	1	2.6%
2019	1	2.6%
2020	2	5.1%
2021	3	7.7%
2022	4	10.3%
2023	11	28.2%
2024	9	23.1%
2025partial year	6	15.4%

Which technologies does Eight Holdings LLC patent most?

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 9

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 6

H04M - Telephonic Communication 6

F41C - Smallarms, e.g. Pistols, Rifles ; Accessories Therefor 5

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 5

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 5

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 5

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 5

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

Top 15 of 29 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

Eight Holdings LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Eight Holdings LLC's lead technology class is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance), 23.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41A
Ranked #8,192 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Eight Holdings LLC against Dsm&t Company Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.4/100 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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