Where does Imaging Business Machines LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Imaging Business Machines LLC ranks #35,824 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 Imaging Business Machines LLC hold?

Imaging Business Machines LLC holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Imaging Business Machines LLC's Innovation Score?

Imaging Business Machines LLC has an Innovation Score of 43.2 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Imaging Business Machines LLC focus on?

Imaging Business Machines LLC's top technology area is G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding) with 2 patents, ranking #2,769 of 5,108 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Imaging Business Machines LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Imaging Business Machines LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Imaging Business Machines LLC's patents?

Imaging Business Machines LLC's patents average 11.1 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 Imaging Business Machines 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

Imaging Business Machines LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Imaging ranks #35,824 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 7 technology areas.

#35,824
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.2/100): 11.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R35824 · US Corporation #35,824 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #35,824/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Iksung
CPC-NARROW G06V · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Iksung Co., Ltd. (±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 Imaging’s 43.2 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 7.2 pts (17%) Velocity 20.0 pts (46%) Breadth 9.4 pts (22%) Claim depth 6.7 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Imaging Business… · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Imaging's Innovation Score is 43.2/100 (top 29% 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 Imaging?

Each dot is one of Imaging’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). Imaging’s own 11.1 claims/patent is at or below the 14.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Imaging's grants concentrate

Imaging Business Machines LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 28.6% of grants classified under G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Imaging sits between Iksung Co., Ltd. and Impact IP, LLC.

Imaging's three-year grant acceleration

Imaging Business Machines LLC shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Iksung

7
Image Metrics

7
Imagistar

7
Imagineering Plus…

7
Imagion Biosystems

7
Imatrex

7
Immersivetouch

7
Impact IP

7
Imaging Business… ◀

7

What this shows Imaging holds 7 patents at rank #35,905, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Imaging

By rank, the assignees closest to #35,905 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding)

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

Imaging's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Imaging Business Machines LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	14.3%
2022	1	14.3%
2023	1	14.3%
2024	2	28.6%
2025partial year	2	28.6%

Which technologies does Imaging Business Machines LLC patent most?

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 2

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Imaging Business Machines LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Imaging Business Machines LLC's lead technology class is G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding), 28.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06V
Ranked #35,824 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Imaging Business Machines LLC against Iksung Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.2/100 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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