Where does Escort Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Escort Inc. ranks #26,250 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 Escort Inc. hold?

Escort Inc. holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Escort Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Escort Inc. has an Innovation Score of 30.2 out of 100 (33rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Escort Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Escort Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +0% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Escort Inc.'s patents?

Escort Inc.'s patents average 16.5 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 Escort 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

Escort Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Escort Inc. focus on?

Escort Inc.'s top technology area is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves) with 7 patents, ranking #747 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Escort ranks #26,250 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 6 technology areas.

#26,250
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 33rd percentile
by Innovation Score (30.2/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26250 · US Corporation #26,250 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,250/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ERCA
CPC-NARROW G01S · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ERCA (±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 Escort’s 30.2 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 8.3 pts (27%) Velocity 3.3 pts (11%) Breadth 8.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Escort · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Escort's Innovation Score is 30.2/100 (33rd 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 Escort?

Each dot is one of Escort’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). Escort’s own 16.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 7.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Escort's grants concentrate

Escort Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 70% of grants classified under G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Escort sits between ERCA and ETL, LLC.

Escort's three-year grant acceleration

Escort Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

ERCA

10
Erich Jaeger + KG

10
ES Fibervisions A…

10
ES Fibervisions H…

10
Espros Photonics

10
ETA Scale AB

10
Etalim

10
ETL

10
Escort ◀

10

What this shows Escort holds 10 patents at rank #26,207, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Escort

By rank, the assignees closest to #26,207 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Escort's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 33rd percentile higher than 33% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Escort Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	20.0%
2016	1	10.0%
2017	1	10.0%
2019	1	10.0%
2020	1	10.0%
2021	2	20.0%
2023	1	10.0%
2024	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Escort Inc. patent most?

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 7

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 3

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 3

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 3

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Escort Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Escort Inc.'s lead technology class is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra), 70% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #26,250 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Escort Inc. against ERCA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.2/100 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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