Where does Grace Digital Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Grace Digital Inc. ranks #21,190 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 Grace Digital Inc. hold?

Grace Digital Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Grace Digital Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Grace Digital Inc. has an Innovation Score of 40.5 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Grace Digital Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Grace Digital Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +450% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Grace Digital Inc.'s patents?

Grace Digital Inc.'s patents average 4.5 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 Grace Digital 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

Grace Digital Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Grace Digital Inc. focus on?

Grace Digital Inc.'s top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 3 patents, ranking #635 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Grace ranks #21,190 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 6 technology areas.

#21,190
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.5/100): 4.5
avg claims per patent: +450%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21190 · US Corporation #21,190 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,190/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gfycat
CPC-NARROW H04R · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +450% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gfycat, 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.

How Grace’s 40.5 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 9.1 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (49%) Breadth 8.7 pts (21%) Claim depth 2.7 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Grace Digital · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Grace's Innovation Score is 40.5/100 (top 36% 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 Grace?

Each dot is one of Grace’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). Grace’s own 4.5 claims/patent is at or below the 11.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Grace's grants concentrate

Grace Digital Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 23.1% of grants classified under H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Grace sits between Gfycat, Inc. and Group Lotus Limited.

Grace's three-year grant acceleration

Grace Digital Inc. shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Gfycat

13
Global Supercompu…

13
Gold Medal Produc…

13
Golden Bear

13
Graybug Vision

13
Griot's Garage

13
Griswold Controls

13
Group Lotus

13
Grace Digital ◀

13

What this shows Grace holds 13 patents at rank #21,198, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Grace

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,198 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Grace's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

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

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Grace Digital Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	15.4%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	2	15.4%
2023	1	7.7%
2024	7	53.8%

Which technologies does Grace Digital Inc. patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 3

H04B - Transmission 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 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 6 of 6 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

Grace Digital Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Grace Digital Inc.'s lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 23.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #21,190 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Grace Digital Inc. against Gfycat, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.5/100 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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