Where does Inc Square, Co., Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Inc Square, Co., Ltd ranks #637 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 Inc Square, Co., Ltd hold?

Inc Square, Co., Ltd holds 699 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 59 technology areas.

What is Inc Square, Co., Ltd's Innovation Score?

Inc Square, Co., Ltd has an Innovation Score of 60.1 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Inc Square, Co., Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Inc Square, Co., Ltd's recent grant velocity is -49% 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 Inc Square, Co., Ltd's patents?

Inc Square, Co., Ltd's patents average 20.1 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 Inc Square, Co., Ltd 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

Inc Square, Co., Ltd

Q: What technology areas does Inc Square, Co., Ltd focus on?

Inc Square, Co., Ltd's top technology area is 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) with 597 patents, ranking #26 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 59 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 699 granted patents across 59 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. Primary class: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Inc ranks #637 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 699 patents across 59 technology areas.

#637
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.1/100): 20.1
avg claims per patent: -49%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R637 · Foreign Corporation #637 · 699 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 699 grants
TOP-DECILE #637/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lite-on Technology
CPC-WIDE G06Q · 59 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -49% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lite-on Technology Corporation (±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 Inc’s 60.1 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 22.6 pts (38%) Velocity 0.4 pts (1%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Beijing University… · near

60
Directv · near

60
National Institute… · near

60
ZKW Group · near

60
Square · this assignee

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Inc's Innovation Score is 60.1/100 (top 3% 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 Inc?

Each dot is one of Inc’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). Inc’s own 20.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Inc's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Inc Square, Co., Ltd received 236 grants versus 463 in 2015–2019 (-49% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 133 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 21. Lead class G06Q accounts for 85.4% of the portfolio across 59 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Rakuten Group, Inc. (#633) and CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (#641).

Inc's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Inc Square, Co., Ltd moved from 348 to 21 grants (0.06x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #3,223. See the growth leaderboard.

Rakuten Group

703
Alarm com Incorpo…

702
Osaka University

702
Autodesk

700
Lite-on Technology

699
Square ◀

699
Rutgers the State…

698
Arizona Board of…

696
Centurylink Intel…

695

What this shows Inc holds 699 patents at rank #637, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Inc

By rank, the assignees closest to #637 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Inc, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Inc ranks #26 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Directv, LLC 60 National Institute FOR Materials Science 60 ZKW Group GmbH 60 Beijing University OF Technology 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.1 here).

Royal Bank of Canada 20.1 avg Brain Corporation 20.1 avg Kateeva, Inc. 20.1 avg Evertz Microsystems Ltd. 20.1 avg

Inc's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 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.

View data table

Inc Square, Co., Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	50	7.2%
2016	62	8.9%
2017	105	15.0%
2018	113	16.2%
2019	133	19.0%
2020	114	16.3%
2021	101	14.4%
2022	21	3.0%

Which technologies does Inc Square, Co., Ltd patent most?

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 597

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 170

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 155

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 109

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 84

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 80

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 71

H04B - Transmission 33

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 13

H04M - Telephonic Communication 12

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 10

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 7

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 7

Top 15 of 59 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

Inc Square, Co., Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Inc Square, Co., Ltd's lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 85.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #637 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Inc Square, Co., Ltd against Rakuten Group, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.1/100 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

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