Where does Gaps Technology, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gaps Technology, LLC ranks #14,634 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 Gaps Technology, LLC hold?

Gaps Technology, LLC holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Gaps Technology, LLC's Innovation Score?

Gaps Technology, LLC has an Innovation Score of 41.1 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Gaps Technology, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gaps Technology, LLC's recent grant velocity is +550% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Gaps Technology, LLC's patents?

Gaps Technology, LLC's patents average 14.7 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 Gaps 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

Gaps Technology, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Gaps Technology, LLC focus on?

Gaps Technology, LLC's top technology area is C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GASES; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting OF HYDROCARBONS; Reforming OF NAPHTHA; Mineral Waxes) with 13 patents, ranking #101 of 504 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GAS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gaps ranks #14,634 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 11 technology areas.

#14,634
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (41.1/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: +550%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14634 · US Corporation #14,634 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,634/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fujikura Kasei
CPC-FOCUS C10G · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +550% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fujikura Kasei Co., Ltd. (±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 Gaps’s 41.1 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 10.5 pts (26%) Velocity 10.0 pts (24%) Breadth 11.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ajax Systems Cyprus… · near

41
Brooks Automation… · near

41
Dynavax · near

41
Energesis Pharmaceut… · near

41
Gaps Technology · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gaps's Innovation Score is 41.1/100 (top 34% 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 Gaps?

Each dot is one of Gaps’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). Gaps’s own 14.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Gaps's grants concentrate

Gaps Technology, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 65% of grants classified under C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GAS). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Gaps sits between Fujikura Kasei Co., Ltd. and GK Packaging, Inc..

Gaps's three-year grant acceleration

Gaps Technology, LLC shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Fujikura Kasei

20
G B D

20
Gadget Software

20
Gamo Outdoor S L

20
GCE Holding AB

20
GE Embedded Oy

20
Genus Lifesciences

20
GK Packaging

20
Gaps Technology ◀

20

What this shows Gaps holds 20 patents at rank #14,632, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gaps

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,632 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Gaps, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS), Gaps ranks #101 of 504 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Dynavax Technologies Corporation 41 Brooks Automation (Germany), GMBH 41 Ajax Systems Cyprus Holdings Ltd 41 Energesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 41

Gaps's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Gaps Technology, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	2	10.0%
2020	3	15.0%
2021	1	5.0%
2022	3	15.0%
2023	4	20.0%
2024	2	10.0%
2025partial year	5	25.0%

Which technologies does Gaps Technology, LLC patent most?

C10G - Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GASES; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting OF HYDROCARBONS; Reforming OF NAPHTHA; Mineral Waxes 13

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 8

B01D - Separation 6

C10L - Fuels NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Natural GAS; Synthetic Natural GAS Obtained BY Processes NOT Covered BY Subclasses C10g OR C10K; Liquified Petroleum GAS; USE OF Additives TO Fuels OR FIRES; Fire-lighters 5

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 4

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 4

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 2

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 1

Top 11 of 11 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

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Gaps Technology, LLC's lead technology class is C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GAS), 65% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10G
Ranked #14,634 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gaps Technology, LLC against Fujikura Kasei Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.1/100 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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