Where does Griot's Garage, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Griot's Garage, Inc. ranks #21,194 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Griot's Garage, Inc. hold?

Griot's Garage, Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 0 technology areas.

What is Griot's Garage, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Griot's Garage, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 13.1 out of 100 (top 98% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Griot's Garage, Inc. focus on?

Griot's Garage, Inc. holds grants across 0 technology areas classified under the Cooperative Patent Classification system.

Is Griot's Garage, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Griot's Garage, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -82% 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 Griot's Garage, Inc.'s patents?

Griot's Garage, Inc.'s patents average 1.0 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 Griot's Garage, 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

Griot's Garage, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 0 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength.

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Griot's ranks #21,194 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 0 technology areas.

#21,194
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 98%
by Innovation Score (13.1/100): 1.0
avg claims per patent: -82%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21194 · US Corporation #21,194 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-UNK · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,194/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Gold Medal Products
CPC-UNK CPC blank
INNOV-LOW 13.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -82% vel
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gold Medal Products Co. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Griot's Garage · this assignee

13
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Griot's's Innovation Score is 13.1/100 (top 98% 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.

Where Griot's's grants concentrate

Griot's Garage, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 0 CPC subclasses . Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Griot's sits between Gold Medal Products Co. and Guru Wireless, Inc..

Gold Medal Produc…

13
Golden Bear

13
Grace Digital

13
Graybug Vision

13
Griswold Controls

13
Group Lotus

13
Gslide

13
Guru Wireless

13
Griot's Garage ◀

13

What this shows Griot's holds 13 patents at rank #21,200, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Griot's

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,200 in granted patent volume.

Griot's's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

13 Top 98% higher than 2% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Griot's Garage, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	7.7%
2016	2	15.4%
2017	4	30.8%
2019	4	30.8%
2022	2	15.4%

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,194

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

13.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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.