Where does Esko Software Bvba rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Esko Software Bvba ranks #22,539 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 Esko Software Bvba hold?

Esko Software Bvba holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Esko Software Bvba's Innovation Score?

Esko Software Bvba has an Innovation Score of 37.3 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Esko Software Bvba focus on?

Esko Software Bvba's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 7 patents, ranking #1,686 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Esko Software Bvba's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Esko Software Bvba's recent grant velocity is +40% 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 Esko Software Bvba's patents?

Esko Software Bvba's patents average 19.8 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 Esko Software Bvba 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 Foreign Corporation

Esko Software Bvba

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Esko ranks #22,539 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 10 technology areas.

#22,539
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.3/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: +40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22539 · Foreign Corporation #22,539 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,539/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Enthone
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Enthone GmbH (±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 Esko’s 37.3 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 8.9 pts (24%) Velocity 5.3 pts (14%) Breadth 11.2 pts (30%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Esko Software Bvba · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Esko's Innovation Score is 37.3/100 (top 44% 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 Esko?

Each dot is one of Esko’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). Esko’s own 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Esko's grants concentrate

Esko Software Bvba is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 58.3% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Esko sits between Enthone GmbH and Ethypharm.

Esko's three-year grant acceleration

Esko Software Bvba shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

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Esko Software Bvba ◀

12

What this shows Esko holds 12 patents at rank #22,544, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Esko

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,544 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Esko's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Esko Software Bvba patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	16.7%
2018	1	8.3%
2019	2	16.7%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	2	16.7%
2022	2	16.7%
2023	1	8.3%
2024	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Esko Software Bvba patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 3

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 3

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 2

B41N - Printing Plates OR Foils ; Materials FOR Surfaces Used IN Printing Machines FOR Printing, Inking, Damping, OR THE LIKE; Preparing Such Surfaces FOR USE AND Conserving Them 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Esko Software Bvba's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Esko Software Bvba's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 58.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #22,539 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Esko Software Bvba against Enthone GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.3/100 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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