Where does Great Dane LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Great Dane LLC ranks #22,666 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 Great Dane LLC hold?

Great Dane LLC holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Great Dane LLC's Innovation Score?

Great Dane LLC has an Innovation Score of 41.9 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Great Dane LLC focus on?

Great Dane LLC's top technology area is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers) with 10 patents, ranking #244 of 1,368 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Great Dane LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Great Dane LLC's recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Great Dane LLC's patents?

Great Dane LLC's patents average 23.3 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 Great Dane 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

Great Dane LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Great ranks #22,666 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 17 technology areas.

#22,666
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.9/100): 23.3
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22666 · US Corporation #22,666 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,666/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Goldeneye
CPC-FOCUS B62D · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Goldeneye, 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 Great’s 41.9 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 8.9 pts (21%) Velocity 4.4 pts (11%) Breadth 14.6 pts (35%) Claim depth 14.0 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Combis Sport… · near

42
Gordon Sales · near

42
Great Dane · this assignee

42
Hatco · near

42
iLumisys · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Great's Innovation Score is 41.9/100 (top 32% 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 Great?

Each dot is one of Great’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). Great’s own 23.3 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.

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

Where Great's grants concentrate

Great Dane LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Great sits between Goldeneye, Inc. and Greyrock Technology, LLC.

Great's three-year grant acceleration

Great Dane LLC shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Goldeneye

12
Good Tree Interna…

12
Gorbel

12
Graver

12
Greatpoint Energy

12
Green Dot

12
Grey Market Labs…

12
Greyrock Technolo…

12
Great Dane ◀

12

What this shows Great holds 12 patents at rank #22,667, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Great

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,667 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62D (Motor Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Great, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B62D (Motor Vehicles), Great ranks #244 of 1,368 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Combis Sport Enterprise Co., Ltd. 42 Gordon Sales, Inc. 42 Hatco Corporation 42 iLumisys, Inc. 42

Great's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Great Dane LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	16.7%
2016	1	8.3%
2017	2	16.7%
2018	1	8.3%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	2	16.7%
2022	1	8.3%
2023	1	8.3%
2025partial year	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Great Dane LLC patent most?

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 2

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Great Dane LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Great Dane LLC's lead technology class is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B62D
Ranked #22,666 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Great Dane LLC against Goldeneye, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.9/100 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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