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Global Eagle Entertainment Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. 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: H04B (Transmission).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Global ranks #16,823 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 7 technology areas.

#16,823
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
35th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.5/100)
18.6
avg claims per patent
-79%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16823 · US Corporation #16,823 · 17 grants

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

  • GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
  • MID-PACK #16,823/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH General Kinematics
  • CPC-NARROW H04B · 7 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 30.5/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
  • VEL-DROP -79% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: General Kinematics Corporation (±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 Global’s 30.5 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Global

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Global's Innovation Score is 30.5/100 (35th 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Global?

Each dot is one of Global’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). Global’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Global vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 16.916.91717.1 0510152025 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent GeneWeave Biosciences, Inc. - 17, 18.12Geneweave Bioscie…General Kinematics Corporation - 17, 15.24General KinematicsGeorama, Inc. - 17, 19.76GeoramaGlassPoint Solar, Inc. - 17, 20.82Glasspoint SolarGlobal Solar Energy, Inc. - 17, 11.41Global Solar Ener…Gold Crest LLC - 17, 1Gold CrestGoodnature Products, Inc. - 17, 11.47Goodnature Produc…Gordon Murray Design Limited - 17, 13.12Gordon Murray Des…Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. - 17, 18.59Global Eagle Ente…
Global vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Global's grants concentrate

Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 58.8% of grants classified under H04B (Transmission). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Global sits between GeneWeave Biosciences, Inc. and Gordon Murray Design Limited.

Who files at Global's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Global holds 17 patents at rank #16,833, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Global

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,833 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04B (Transmission)

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

Global's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 35th percentile higher than 35% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2016 2 11.8%
2017 6 35.3%
2018 4 23.5%
2019 2 11.8%
2020 2 11.8%
2021 1 5.9%

Which technologies does Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. patent most?

Top 7 of 7 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

Global Eagle Entertainment Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Global Eagle Entertainment Inc.'s lead technology class is H04B (Transmission), 58.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04B
  • Ranked #16,823 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. against GeneWeave Biosciences, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 30.5/100 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

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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

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.