Where does Gibson Brands, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gibson Brands, Inc. ranks #8,805 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 Gibson Brands, Inc. hold?

Gibson Brands, Inc. holds 36 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Gibson Brands, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Gibson Brands, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 32.5 out of 100 (41st percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Gibson Brands, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -91% 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 Gibson Brands, Inc.'s patents?

Gibson Brands, Inc.'s patents average 7.4 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 Gibson Brands, 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 US Corporation

Gibson Brands, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Gibson Brands, Inc. focus on?

Gibson Brands, Inc.'s top technology area is G10H (Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store) with 8 patents, ranking #35 of 238 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 36 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: G10H (Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gibson ranks #8,805 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 12 technology areas.

#8,805
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 41st percentile
by Innovation Score (32.5/100): 7.4
avg claims per patent: -91%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8805 · US Corporation #8,805 · 36 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 36 grants
UPPER-Q #8,805/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Franke Technology…
CPC-FOCUS G10H · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -91% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Franke Technology and Trademark 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 Gibson’s 32.5 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 12.5 pts (39%) Velocity 3.3 pts (10%) Breadth 12.2 pts (38%) Claim depth 4.4 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GiMer Medical · near

33
ViiV Healthcare · near

33
Gebr Kemper + KG… · near

32
Gibson Brands · this assignee

32
Intercept Pharmaceut… · near

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gibson's Innovation Score is 32.5/100 (41st 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Gibson?

Each dot is one of Gibson’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). Gibson’s own 7.4 claims/patent is at or below the 13.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Gibson's grants concentrate

Gibson Brands, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 22.2% of grants classified under G10H (Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (17 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Gibson sits between Fuji Seiko Co., Ltd. and Grammarly, Inc..

Gibson's three-year grant acceleration

Gibson Brands, Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Fuji Seiko

36
Furla S p A

36
Futura S P A

36
Franke Technology…

36
GKN Aerospace Swe…

36
GKN Sinter Metals

36
GP Cellulose

36
Grammarly

36
Gibson Brands ◀

36

What this shows Gibson holds 36 patents at rank #8,802, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gibson

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,802 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G10H (Electrophonic Musical Instruments)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Gibson, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G10H (Electrophonic Musical Instruments), Gibson ranks #35 of 238 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 32 Gebr. Kemper GmbH + Co. KG Metallwerke 32 GiMer Medical Company Limited 33 ViiV Healthcare Company 33

Gibson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 41st percentile higher than 41% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Gibson Brands, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	8.3%
2016	17	47.2%
2017	4	11.1%
2018	6	16.7%
2019	3	8.3%
2020	1	2.8%
2022	1	2.8%
2024	1	2.8%

Which technologies does Gibson Brands, Inc. patent most?

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 8

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 3

H03G - Control OF Amplification 2

G10D - Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

H03F - Amplifiers 1

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 1

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Gibson Brands, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gibson Brands, Inc.'s lead technology class is G10H (Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store), 22.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G10H
Ranked #8,805 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gibson Brands, Inc. against Fuji Seiko Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.5/100 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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