Where does Liqid Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Liqid Inc. ranks #3,929 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 Liqid Inc. hold?

Liqid Inc. holds 92 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Liqid Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Liqid Inc. has an Innovation Score of 42.7 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Liqid Inc. focus on?

Liqid Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 91 patents. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Liqid Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Liqid Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +80% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Liqid Inc.'s patents?

Liqid Inc.'s patents average 18.7 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 Liqid 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

Liqid Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 92 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Liqid ranks #3,929 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 92 patents across 10 technology areas.

#3,929
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.7/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: +80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3929 · US Corporation #3,929 · 92 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 92 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,929/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kraton Polymers
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kraton Polymers 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Altek Semiconductor · near

43
Foxlink Image… · near

43
Fujitsu Technology… · near

43
Liqid · this assignee

43
ZTE (USA) · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Liqid's Innovation Score is 42.7/100 (top 30% 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 Liqid's grants concentrate

Liqid Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 98.9% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (17 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Liqid sits between Kraton Polymers LLC and MongoDB, Inc..

Liqid's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Liqid Inc. moved from 42 to 29 grants (0.69x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Kraton Polymers

92
LAT Enterprises

92
Lippert Components

92
Lindsay

92
Mainstream Engine…

92
Master Lock

92
Microvision

92
Mongodb

92
Liqid ◀

92

What this shows Liqid holds 92 patents at rank #3,929, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Liqid

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,929 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

ZTE (USA) Inc. 43 Fujitsu Technology Solutions Intellectual Property GmbH 43 Foxlink Image Technology Co., Ltd. 43 Altek Semiconductor Corporation 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.7 here).

Protegrity Corporation 18.7 avg TC1 LLC 18.7 avg University of Utah Research Foundation 18.7 avg Red Hat, Inc. 18.7 avg

Liqid's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Liqid Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	2.2%
2017	5	5.4%
2018	6	6.5%
2019	17	18.5%
2020	16	17.4%
2021	9	9.8%
2022	9	9.8%
2023	7	7.6%
2024	13	14.1%
2025partial year	8	8.7%

Which technologies does Liqid Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 91

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 22

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 21

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 14

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 8

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 7

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 7

G21D - Nuclear Power Plant 7

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 6

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,929

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

42.7 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

Liqid Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Liqid Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 98.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #3,929 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Liqid Inc. against Kraton Polymers LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.7/100 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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