Where does Friend for Media Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Friend for Media Limited ranks #46,886 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 Friend for Media Limited hold?

Friend for Media Limited holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2022, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Friend for Media Limited's Innovation Score?

Friend for Media Limited has an Innovation Score of 24.3 out of 100 (14th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Friend for Media Limited focus on?

Friend for Media Limited's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

Is Friend for Media Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Friend for Media Limited's recent grant velocity is +300% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Friend for Media Limited's patents?

Friend for Media Limited's patents average 16.2 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 Friend for Media Limited 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

Friend for Media Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2022. 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Friend ranks #46,886 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 3 technology areas.

#46,886
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 14th percentile
by Innovation Score (24.3/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: +300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R46886 · Foreign Corporation #46,886 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #46,886/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Freelander Innovatio…
CPC-NARROW G06F · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 24.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Freelander Innovations USA, 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
Brivo Systems · near

24
Liberty Peak Ventures · near

24
M&M Sales Enterprises · near

24
Friend for Media · this assignee

24
Zaklady Farmaceutycz… · near

24
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Friend's Innovation Score is 24.3/100 (14th percentile 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 Friend's grants concentrate

Friend for Media Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Friend sits between Freelander Innovations USA, LLC and Fujian Youtong Industries Co., Ltd..

Friend's three-year grant acceleration

Friend for Media Limited shows 1 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.

Freelander Innova…

5
Freie Universitae…

5
Fresnel

5
Frideco

5
Frimline Private

5
Frustration Free…

5
Fuji Heavy Indust…

5
Fujian Youtong In…

5
Friend for Media ◀

5

What this shows Friend holds 5 patents at rank #46,929, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Friend

By rank, the assignees closest to #46,929 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (24 here).

M&M Sales Enterprises Inc. 24 Zaklady Farmaceutyczne Polpharma S.A. 24 Liberty Peak Ventures, LLC 24 Brivo Systems, LLC 24

Friend's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 14th percentile higher than 14% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2022

Grants by year

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

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Friend for Media Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	20.0%
2020	2	40.0%
2021	1	20.0%
2022	1	20.0%

Which technologies does Friend for Media Limited patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#46,886

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

24.3 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

Friend for Media Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Friend for Media Limited's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #46,886 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Friend for Media Limited against Freelander Innovations USA, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 24.3/100 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.