Where does Express Imaging Systems, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Express Imaging Systems, LLC ranks #6,769 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 Express Imaging Systems, LLC hold?

Express Imaging Systems, LLC holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Express Imaging Systems, LLC's Innovation Score?

Express Imaging Systems, LLC has an Innovation Score of 49.1 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Express Imaging Systems, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Express Imaging Systems, LLC's recent grant velocity is -64% 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 Express Imaging Systems, LLC's patents?

Express Imaging Systems, LLC's patents average 28.2 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 Express Imaging Systems, LLC 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

Express Imaging Systems, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Express Imaging Systems, LLC focus on?

Express Imaging Systems, LLC's top technology area is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General) with 44 patents, ranking #86 of 2,247 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 22 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: H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Express ranks #6,769 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 22 technology areas.

#6,769
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.1/100): 28.2
avg claims per patent: -64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6769 · US Corporation #6,769 · 49 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,769/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Editas Medicine
CPC-FOCUS H05B · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 28.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Editas Medicine, Inc. (±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 Express’s 49.1 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 13.5 pts (27%) Velocity 4.0 pts (8%) Breadth 16.6 pts (34%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Allosource · near

49
Express Imaging… · this assignee

49
Geotoll · near

49
Gula Consulting… · near

49
Aker Solutions AS · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Express's Innovation Score is 49.1/100 (top 15% 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 Express?

Each dot is one of Express’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). Express’s own 28.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Express's grants concentrate

Express Imaging Systems, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 89.8% of grants classified under H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Express sits between Exmark Manufacturing Company Incorporated and Future Dial, Inc..

Express's three-year grant acceleration

Express Imaging Systems, LLC shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Exmark Manufactur…

49
Editas Medicine

49
Elite Semiconduct…

49
Endress+Hauser Co…

49
Fidia Farmaceutic…

49
Fairfield Industr…

49
Friedrich-schille…

49
Future Dial

49
Express Imaging S… ◀

49

What this shows Express holds 49 patents at rank #6,769, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Express

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,769 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Express, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05B (Electric Heating), Express ranks #86 of 2,247 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Allosource 49 Geotoll Inc. 49 Gula Consulting Limited Liability Company 49 Aker Solutions AS 49

Express's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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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Express Imaging Systems, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	18.4%
2016	12	24.5%
2017	6	12.2%
2018	6	12.2%
2019	3	6.1%
2020	3	6.1%
2021	4	8.2%
2022	3	6.1%
2023	2	4.1%
2024	1	2.0%

Which technologies does Express Imaging Systems, LLC patent most?

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 44

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 37

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 14

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 10

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 10

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 7

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 6

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 4

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 3

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 3

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 2

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 2

Top 15 of 22 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

Express Imaging Systems, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Express Imaging Systems, LLC's lead technology class is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General), 89.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
Ranked #6,769 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Express Imaging Systems, LLC against Exmark Manufacturing Company Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.1/100 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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