Where does Higher Ground LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Higher Ground LLC ranks #7,564 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 Higher Ground LLC hold?

Higher Ground LLC holds 43 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Higher Ground LLC's Innovation Score?

Higher Ground LLC has an Innovation Score of 46.1 out of 100 (top 21% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Higher Ground LLC focus on?

Higher Ground LLC's top technology area is H04B (Transmission) with 32 patents, ranking #302 of 3,909 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Is Higher Ground LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Higher Ground LLC's recent grant velocity is +5% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Higher Ground LLC's patents?

Higher Ground LLC's patents average 26.0 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 Higher Ground 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

Higher Ground LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 43 granted patents across 13 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: H04B (Transmission).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Higher ranks #7,564 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 43 patents across 13 technology areas.

#7,564
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 21%
by Innovation Score (46.1/100): 26.0
avg claims per patent: +5%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7564 · US Corporation #7,564 · 43 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 43 grants
UPPER-Q #7,564/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Halo2cloud
CPC-FOCUS H04B · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 26.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +5% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Halo2cloud, LLC (±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 Higher’s 46.1 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 13.1 pts (28%) Velocity 5.3 pts (11%) Breadth 12.7 pts (28%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Curt Manufacturing · near

46
Florida Turbine · near

46
Higher Ground · this assignee

46
Owen Mumford · near

46
REC Solar PTE · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Higher's Innovation Score is 46.1/100 (top 21% 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 Higher?

Each dot is one of Higher’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). Higher’s own 26.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Higher's grants concentrate

Higher Ground LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 74.4% of grants classified under H04B (Transmission). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Higher sits between Halo2cloud, LLC and Institute OF Pharmacology AND Toxicology, Academy OF Military Medical Sciences.

Higher's three-year grant acceleration

Higher Ground LLC shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Halo2cloud

43
Hifi Engineering

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Hitachi Power Sem…

43
Hitachi Solutions

43
Horizon Internati…

43
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IMDB COM

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Institute OF Phar…

43
Higher Ground ◀

43

What this shows Higher holds 43 patents at rank #7,566, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Higher

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,566 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04B (Transmission)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Higher, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04B (Transmission), Higher ranks #302 of 3,909 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

REC Solar PTE. Ltd. 46 Curt Manufacturing, LLC 46 Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. 46 Owen Mumford Limited 46

Higher's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 21% higher than 79% 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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Higher Ground LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	7	16.3%
2018	7	16.3%
2019	6	14.0%
2020	7	16.3%
2021	2	4.7%
2022	2	4.7%
2023	6	14.0%
2024	4	9.3%
2025partial year	2	4.7%

Which technologies does Higher Ground LLC patent most?

H04B - Transmission 32

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 29

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 24

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 16

H04M - Telephonic Communication 3

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 3

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

H04J - Multiplex Communication 1

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 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Higher Ground LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Higher Ground LLC's lead technology class is H04B (Transmission), 74.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04B
Ranked #7,564 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Higher Ground LLC against Halo2cloud, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.1/100 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.