Where does Grass Valley Canada rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Grass Valley Canada ranks #5,844 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 Grass Valley Canada hold?

Grass Valley Canada holds 58 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Grass Valley Canada's Innovation Score?

Grass Valley Canada has an Innovation Score of 50.0 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Grass Valley Canada focus on?

Grass Valley Canada's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 43 patents, ranking #417 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is Grass Valley Canada's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Grass Valley Canada's recent grant velocity is +1200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Grass Valley Canada's patents?

Grass Valley Canada's patents average 23.7 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 Grass Valley Canada 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

Grass Valley Canada

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 58 granted patents across 15 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Grass ranks #5,844 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 58 patents across 15 technology areas.

#5,844
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (50.0/100): 23.7
avg claims per patent: +1200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5844 · Foreign Corporation #5,844 · 58 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 58 grants
UPPER-Q #5,844/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Flashbay Hong Kong
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +1200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Flashbay Electronics Hong Kong Limited (±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 Grass’s 50.0 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 14.1 pts (28%) Velocity 8.1 pts (16%) Breadth 13.7 pts (27%) Claim depth 14.2 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Grass Valley Canada · this assignee

50
Kymab · near

50
National Products · near

50
REIFENHÄUSER & KG… · near

50
U S Bank National… · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Grass's Innovation Score is 50.0/100 (top 14% 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 Grass?

Each dot is one of Grass’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). Grass’s own 23.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Grass's grants concentrate

Grass Valley Canada is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 74.1% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (16 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Grass sits between Flashbay Electronics Hong Kong Limited and Institute for Cancer Research.

Grass's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Grass Valley Canada moved from 24 to 29 grants (1.21x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Flashbay Hong Kong

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GE Medical System…

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Genetec

58
Giant Manufacturi…

58
Genia

58
Gilbarco

58
Horizon Hobby

58
Institute for Can…

58
Grass Valley Cana… ◀

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What this shows Grass holds 58 patents at rank #5,842, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Grass

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,842 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Grass, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Grass ranks #417 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

National Products, Inc. 50 REIFENHÄUSER GMBH & Co. KG Maschinenfabrik 50 U.S. Bank National Association 50 Kymab Limited 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.7 here).

Solarflare Communications, Inc. 23.7 avg Largan Precision Co., Ltd. 23.6 avg Bauer Hockey LLC 23.7 avg Gecko Robotics, Inc. 23.6 avg

Grass's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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.

View data table

Grass Valley Canada patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	1.7%
2018	2	3.4%
2019	1	1.7%
2020	7	12.1%
2021	16	27.6%
2022	11	19.0%
2023	14	24.1%
2024	4	6.9%
2025partial year	2	3.4%

Which technologies does Grass Valley Canada patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 43

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 27

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 13

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 8

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 4

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

H04J - Multiplex Communication 3

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 3

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

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 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

H04H - Broadcast Communication 1

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1

Top 15 of 15 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Grass Valley Canada's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Grass Valley Canada's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 74.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #5,844 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Grass Valley Canada against Flashbay Electronics Hong Kong Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.0/100 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

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.