Where does FOVE, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), FOVE, Inc. ranks #24,363 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does FOVE, Inc. hold?

FOVE, Inc. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2024, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is FOVE, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

FOVE, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 24.4 out of 100 (top 85% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does FOVE, Inc. focus on?

FOVE, Inc.'s top technology area is G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

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

FOVE, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -43% 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 FOVE, Inc.'s patents?

FOVE, Inc.'s patents average 8.2 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 FOVE, 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 Foreign Corporation

FOVE, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2024. 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: G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, FOVE ranks #24,363 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 8 technology areas.

#24,363
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 85%
by Innovation Score (24.4/100): 8.2
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24363 · Foreign Corporation #24,363 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,363/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNA…
CPC-NARROW G02B · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 24.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Flightsafety International 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
FOVE · this assignee

24
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows FOVE's Innovation Score is 24.4/100 (top 85% 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 FOVE's grants concentrate

FOVE, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, FOVE sits between Flightsafety International Inc. and Freewire Technologies, Inc..

FOVE's three-year grant acceleration

FOVE, Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Flightsafety Inte…

11
Flyhawk

11
FMI Medical Syste…

11
Foming Bicycle Pa…

11
FOX Sports Produc…

11
Freeman IT

11
Freestyle Outdoor…

11
Freewire

11
FOVE ◀

11

What this shows FOVE holds 11 patents at rank #24,322, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near FOVE

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,322 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

FOVE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 Top 85% higher than 15% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2024

Grants by year

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

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FOVE, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	9.1%
2018	2	18.2%
2019	4	36.4%
2020	3	27.3%
2024	1	9.1%

Which technologies does FOVE, Inc. patent most?

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 9

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 9

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 8

G06V - IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING 6

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 5

G11B - INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER 2

G09G - ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,363

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

24.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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.