Where does Electronic Imaging Services, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Electronic Imaging Services, Inc. ranks #13,961 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 Electronic Imaging Services, Inc. hold?

Electronic Imaging Services, Inc. holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Electronic Imaging Services, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Electronic Imaging Services, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 31.8 out of 100 (39th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Electronic Imaging Services, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Electronic Imaging Services, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -25% 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 Electronic Imaging Services, Inc.'s patents?

Electronic Imaging Services, Inc.'s patents average 12.3 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 Electronic Imaging Services, 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

Electronic Imaging Services, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Electronic Imaging Services, Inc. focus on?

Electronic Imaging Services, Inc.'s top technology area is G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals) with 20 patents. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 12 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: G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Electronic ranks #13,961 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 12 technology areas.

#13,961
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 39th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.8/100): 12.3
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13961 · US Corporation #13,961 · 21 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #13,961/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ecole Normale…
CPC-FOCUS G09F · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ecole Normale Superieure De Cachan (±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
CHO Pharma · near

32
Clairson · near

32
ZEN Design Solutions · near

32
Apparatus · near

32
Imaging Services · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Electronic's Innovation Score is 31.8/100 (39th 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.

Where Electronic's grants concentrate

Electronic Imaging Services, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 95.2% of grants classified under G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Electronic sits between Erae AMS Co., Ltd. and Emerson Climate Technologies (Suzhou) Co., Ltd..

Electronic's three-year grant acceleration

Electronic Imaging Services, Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Erae AMS

21
Ewald DÖRKEN

21
Exela Pharma Scie…

21
Ecole Normale Sup…

21
Elsevier

21
Emboline

21
Embry-riddle Aero…

21
Emerson Climate (…

21
Imaging Services ◀

21

What this shows Electronic holds 21 patents at rank #13,967, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Electronic

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,967 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G09F (Displaying)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Apparatus LLC 32 Clairson, Inc. 32 ZEN Design Solutions Limited 32 CHO Pharma, Inc. 32

Electronic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 39th percentile higher than 39% 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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Electronic Imaging Services, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	4.8%
2016	5	23.8%
2017	3	14.3%
2018	1	4.8%
2019	2	9.5%
2020	4	19.0%
2021	3	14.3%
2022	1	4.8%
2023	1	4.8%

Which technologies does Electronic Imaging Services, Inc. patent most?

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 20

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 18

B31D - Making Articles OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper, NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses B31b OR B31c 14

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 14

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 13

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 11

B26F - PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; Severing BY Means Other Than Cutting 5

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 5

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 5

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 4

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 4

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 2

Top 12 of 12 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#13,961

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

31.8 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

Electronic Imaging Services, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Electronic Imaging Services, Inc.'s lead technology class is G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals), 95.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G09F
Ranked #13,961 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Electronic Imaging Services, Inc. against Erae AMS Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.8/100 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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