Where does Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd. ranks #1,416 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 Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd. hold?

Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd. holds 297 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 72 technology areas.

What is Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 62.8 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd. focus on?

Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 116 patents. Grants appear in 72 CPC subclasses total.

Is Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Intellectual Discovery 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 Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.'s patents average 10.6 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 Intellectual Discovery 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

Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 297 granted patents across 72 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Intellectual ranks #1,416 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 297 patents across 72 technology areas.

#1,416
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.8/100): 10.6
avg claims per patent: -49%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1416 · Foreign Corporation #1,416 · 297 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 297 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,416/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Finisar
CPC-WIDE H04N · 72 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -49% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Finisar 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Autoliv ASP · near

63
Tyco (Shanghai) · near

63
Nuro · near

63
Intellectual Discovery · this assignee

63
Siemens Mobility · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Intellectual's Innovation Score is 62.8/100 (top 2% 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.

How Intellectual's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd. received 92 grants versus 180 in 2015–2019 (-49% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 73 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 9. Lead class H04N accounts for 39.1% of the portfolio across 72 subclasses. Volume neighbours: The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (#1,412) and Essity Hygiene AND Health Aktiebolag (#1,420).

Intellectual's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd. moved from 37 to 65 grants (1.76x 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 #290. See the growth leaderboard.

The Governing Cou…

298
University of Ten…

298
Finisar

297
Huizhou TCL Mobil…

297
Sintokogio

297
Toshiba Energy Sy…

297
Intellectual Disc… ◀

297
Epcos

295
Essity Hygiene AN…

295

What this shows Intellectual holds 297 patents at rank #1,416, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Intellectual

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,416 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Intellectual, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Siemens Mobility GmbH 63 Nuro, Inc. 63 Autoliv ASP, Inc. 63 Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.6 here).

Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd. 10.6 avg National SUN Yat-sen University 10.6 avg Chinese Research Academy OF Environmental Sciences 10.6 avg DIC Corporation 10.6 avg

Intellectual's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	73	24.6%
2016	45	15.2%
2017	32	10.8%
2018	20	6.7%
2019	10	3.4%
2020	17	5.7%
2021	10	3.4%
2022	9	3.0%
2023	14	4.7%
2024	42	14.1%
2025partial year	25	8.4%

Which technologies does Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 116

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 51

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 42

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 25

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 13

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 13

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 10

H04B - Transmission 10

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 10

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 10

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 9

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 8

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 7

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 7

Top 15 of 72 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,416

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

62.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 39.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #1,416 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd. against The Governing Council of the University of Toronto, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.8/100 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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