Where does Essential Products, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Essential Products, Inc. ranks #3,429 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 Essential Products, Inc. hold?

Essential Products, Inc. holds 108 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2021, spanning 49 technology areas.

What is Essential Products, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Essential Products, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.2 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Essential Products, Inc. focus on?

Essential Products, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 53 patents. Grants appear in 49 CPC subclasses total.

Is Essential Products, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Essential Products, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -93% 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 Essential Products, Inc.'s patents?

Essential Products, Inc.'s patents average 18.8 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 Essential Products, 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

Essential Products, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 108 granted patents across 49 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Essential ranks #3,429 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 108 patents across 49 technology areas.

#3,429
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.2/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent: -93%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3429 · US Corporation #3,429 · 108 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 108 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,429/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Celgard
CPC-WIDE G06F · 49 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -93% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Celgard, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Essential Products · this assignee

52
Leedarson Lighting · near

52
Movidius · near

52
UBE Industries · near

52
Universitat Zurich · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Essential's Innovation Score is 52.2/100 (top 10% 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 Essential's grants concentrate

Essential Products, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 49 CPC subclasses with 49.1% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (37 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Essential sits between Celgard, LLC and MakerBot Industries, LLC.

Celgard

108
DJO

108
Ecosense Lighting

108
Edwards Lifescien…

108
Framatome

108
Formlabs

108
GE OIL & GAS UK

108
Makerbot Industri…

108
Essential Products ◀

108

What this shows Essential holds 108 patents at rank #3,429, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Essential

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,429 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Universitat Zurich 52 Leedarson Lighting Co., Ltd. 52 UBE Industries, Ltd. 52 Movidius Limited 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.8 here).

Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. 18.8 avg Research Triangle Institute 18.8 avg Movandi Corporation 18.8 avg Maplebear Inc. 18.8 avg

Essential's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2021

Grants by year

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

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Essential Products, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	1.9%
2017	26	24.1%
2018	36	33.3%
2019	37	34.3%
2020	2	1.9%
2021	5	4.6%

Which technologies does Essential Products, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 53

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 40

H04M - Telephonic Communication 23

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 21

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 17

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 17

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 16

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 14

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 13

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 12

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 11

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 10

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 8

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 6

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 5

Top 15 of 49 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,429

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.2 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

Essential Products, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Essential Products, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 49.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #3,429 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Essential Products, Inc. against Celgard, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.2/100 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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