Where does General Interface Solution Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), General Interface Solution Limited ranks #2,267 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 General Interface Solution Limited hold?

General Interface Solution Limited holds 173 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 71 technology areas.

What is General Interface Solution Limited's Innovation Score?

General Interface Solution Limited has an Innovation Score of 56.4 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does General Interface Solution Limited focus on?

General Interface Solution Limited's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 88 patents. Grants appear in 71 CPC subclasses total.

Is General Interface Solution Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

General Interface Solution Limited's recent grant velocity is +135% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for General Interface Solution Limited's patents?

General Interface Solution Limited's patents average 12.7 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 General Interface Solution 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

General Interface Solution Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 173 granted patents across 71 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, General ranks #2,267 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 173 patents across 71 technology areas.

#2,267
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.4/100): 12.7
avg claims per patent: +135%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2267 · Foreign Corporation #2,267 · 173 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 173 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,267/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bell Sports
CPC-WIDE G06F · 71 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +135% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bell Sports, 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
Hollister Incorporated · near

56
BSH Home Appliances · near

56
Campagnolo S R L · near

56
General Interface… · this assignee

56
THE State OF Israel… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows General's Innovation Score is 56.4/100 (top 6% 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.

How General's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, General Interface Solution Limited received 115 grants versus 49 in 2015–2019 (+135% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 34 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 1. Lead class G06F accounts for 50.9% of the portfolio across 71 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Bell Sports, Inc. (#2,263) and Universal Lighting Technologies Inc. (#2,271).

General's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, General Interface Solution Limited moved from 72 to 64 grants (0.89x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,522. See the growth leaderboard.

Bell Sports

173
Berry Plastics

173
Delaval Holding AB

173
Edwards

173
Luxtera

173
Ossia

173
The Government of…

173
Universal Lighting

173
General Interface… ◀

173

What this shows General holds 173 patents at rank #2,267, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near General

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,267 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Campagnolo S.R.L. 56 BSH Home Appliances Corporation 56 THE State OF Israel, Ministry OF Agriculture & Rural Development, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) (VOLCANI CENTER) 56 Hollister Incorporated 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.7 here).

Sitronix Technology Corp. 12.7 avg Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC 12.7 avg Casale SA 12.7 avg Unirac, Inc. 12.7 avg

General's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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General Interface Solution Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	0.6%
2016	3	1.7%
2017	12	6.9%
2018	12	6.9%
2019	21	12.1%
2020	34	19.7%
2021	17	9.8%
2022	23	13.3%
2023	23	13.3%
2024	18	10.4%
2025partial year	9	5.2%

Which technologies does General Interface Solution Limited patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 88

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 33

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 25

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 22

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 21

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 18

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 16

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 12

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 12

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 8

H03K - Pulse Technique 8

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

H04M - Telephonic Communication 5

Top 15 of 71 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,267

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

56.4 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

General Interface Solution Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

General Interface Solution Limited's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 50.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #2,267 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare General Interface Solution Limited against Bell Sports, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.4/100 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.