Where does ESS-Help, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ESS-Help, Inc. ranks #22,541 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 ESS-Help, Inc. hold?

ESS-Help, Inc. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is ESS-Help, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

ESS-Help, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.4 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is ESS-Help, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for ESS-Help, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for ESS-Help, Inc.'s patents?

ESS-Help, Inc.'s patents average 13.3 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 ESS-Help, 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

ESS-Help, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does ESS-Help, Inc. focus on?

ESS-Help, Inc.'s top technology area is B60Q (Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General) with 12 patents, ranking #100 of 750 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: B60Q (Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ess-help ranks #22,541 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 13 technology areas.

#22,541
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.4/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22541 · US Corporation #22,541 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,541/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Entire Technology
CPC-FOCUS B60Q · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Entire Technology Co., Ltd. (±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 Ess-help’s 47.4 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 8.9 pts (19%) Velocity 17.8 pts (38%) Breadth 12.7 pts (27%) Claim depth 8.0 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ESS-Help · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ess-help's Innovation Score is 47.4/100 (top 19% 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 Ess-help?

Each dot is one of Ess-help’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). Ess-help’s own 13.3 claims/patent is at or below the 14.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Ess-help's grants concentrate

ESS-Help, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B60Q (Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Ess-help sits between Entire Technology Co., Ltd. and Evonik Fibres GMBH.

Ess-help's three-year grant acceleration

ESS-Help, Inc. shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Entire Technology

12
Entrantech

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Eshard

12
Eski

12
Esthetic Implant…

12
ETH Zuerich

12
Etrog Systems

12
Evonik Fibres

12
Ess-help ◀

12

What this shows ESS-Help holds 12 patents at rank #22,508, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ESS-Help

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,508 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60Q (Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in ESS-Help's primary technology class.

Ess-help's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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ESS-Help, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	8.3%
2021	2	16.7%
2022	3	25.0%
2023	1	8.3%
2024	4	33.3%
2025partial year	1	8.3%

Which technologies does ESS-Help, Inc. patent most?

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 12

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 4

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 2

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 2

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 2

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 1

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 1

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 1

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 1

H04B - Transmission 1

Top 13 of 13 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

ESS-Help, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ESS-Help, Inc.'s lead technology class is B60Q (Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60Q
Ranked #22,541 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ESS-Help, Inc. against Entire Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.4/100 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

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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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