Where does Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC ranks #46,846 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 Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC hold?

Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC's Innovation Score?

Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC has an Innovation Score of 42.3 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC focus on?

Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 3 patents, ranking #4,165 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC'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 Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC's patents?

Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC's patents average 14.4 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 Forward Entertainment & Technology 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

Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Forward ranks #46,846 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 16 technology areas.

#46,846
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.3/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R46846 · US Corporation #46,846 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #46,846/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH FortifyIQ
CPC-FOCUS A61B · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: FortifyIQ, 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 Forward’s 42.3 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 6.2 pts (15%) Velocity 13.3 pts (32%) Breadth 14.1 pts (33%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Forward Entertainmen… · this assignee

42
Fujikoki · near

42
Genfit · near

42
Simur · near

42
Spectranetics · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Forward's Innovation Score is 42.3/100 (top 31% 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 Forward?

Each dot is one of Forward’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). Forward’s own 14.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Forward's grants concentrate

Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Forward sits between FortifyIQ, Inc. and Foster Wheeler USA Corporation.

Forward's three-year grant acceleration

Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Fortifyiq

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Fortum Oyj

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Fortune Industrie…

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Forward Thinking…

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Foshan Shunde Yid…

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Foshan Zhengbu Te…

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Foster Wheeler USA

5
Forward Entertain… ◀

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What this shows Forward holds 5 patents at rank #46,914, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Forward

By rank, the assignees closest to #46,914 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Forward, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Forward ranks #4,165 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Simur, Inc. 42 Genfit 42 Fujikoki Corporation 42 Spectranetics LLC 42

Forward's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	20.0%
2018	1	20.0%
2023	2	40.0%
2025partial year	1	20.0%

Which technologies does Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

B66B - ELEVATORS; Escalators OR Moving Walkways 3

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 3

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 3

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 3

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 3

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 3

A46B - Brushes 2

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 2

B26B - Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

A43B - Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear 1

H02N - Electric Machines NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #46,846 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Forward Entertainment & Technology LLC against FortifyIQ, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.3/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.