Where does Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC ranks #6,899 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 Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC hold?

Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC holds 48 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC's Innovation Score?

Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC has an Innovation Score of 38.0 out of 100 (top 42% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC focus on?

Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 47 patents, ranking #1,020 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC's recent grant velocity is +113% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC's patents?

Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC's patents average 19.5 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 Gracenote Digital Ventures, 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

Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 48 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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, Gracenote ranks #6,899 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 48 patents across 5 technology areas.

#6,899
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 42%
by Innovation Score (38.0/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent: +113%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6899 · US Corporation #6,899 · 48 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 48 grants
UPPER-Q #6,899/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Focke & ( & KG)
CPC-NARROW G06F · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +113% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) (±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 Gracenote’s 38.0 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 13.4 pts (35%) Velocity 4.9 pts (13%) Breadth 7.9 pts (21%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BJB & KG · near

38
Dental SmartMirror · near

38
Gracenote Digital… · this assignee

38
Klox · near

38
Velos Media · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gracenote's Innovation Score is 38.0/100 (top 42% 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 Gracenote?

Each dot is one of Gracenote’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). Gracenote’s own 19.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Gracenote's grants concentrate

Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 97.9% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (9 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2018. By volume, Gracenote sits between Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) and Hexagon Technology AS.

Gracenote's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC moved from 23 to 17 grants (0.74x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Focke & ( & KG)

48
G&H Diversified M…

48
Genfit

48
Ghsp

48
Grundfos Manageme…

48
GW Research

48
Gan Systems

48
Hexagon Technolog…

48
Gracenote Digital… ◀

48

What this shows Gracenote holds 48 patents at rank #6,897, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gracenote

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,897 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Gracenote, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Gracenote ranks #1,020 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Klox Technologies Inc. 38 BJB GmbH & Co. KG 38 Velos Media, LLC 38 Dental SmartMirror, Inc. 38

Gracenote's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 42% higher than 58% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	4	8.3%
2018	3	6.3%
2019	8	16.7%
2020	9	18.8%
2021	6	12.5%
2022	6	12.5%
2023	6	12.5%
2024	5	10.4%
2025partial year	1	2.1%

Which technologies does Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 47

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 26

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 20

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 17

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 15

Top 5 of 5 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

Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 97.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #6,899 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC against Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG), an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.0/100 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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