Where does Orbital Traction, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Orbital Traction, Ltd. ranks #23,146 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 Orbital Traction, Ltd. hold?

Orbital Traction, Ltd. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Orbital Traction, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Orbital Traction, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 34.3 out of 100 (47th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Orbital Traction, Ltd. focus on?

Orbital Traction, Ltd.'s top technology area is F16H (Gearing) with 11 patents, ranking #223 of 1,603 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Orbital Traction, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Orbital Traction, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -80% 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 Orbital Traction, Ltd.'s patents?

Orbital Traction, Ltd.'s patents average 21.0 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 Orbital Traction, 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 US Corporation

Orbital Traction, Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 9 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: F16H (Gearing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Orbital ranks #23,146 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 9 technology areas.

#23,146
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 47th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.3/100): 21.0
avg claims per patent: -80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23146 · US Corporation #23,146 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,146/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Opendoor Labs
CPC-NARROW F16H · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Opendoor Labs Inc. (±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 Orbital’s 34.3 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 8.9 pts (26%) Velocity 2.2 pts (6%) Breadth 10.6 pts (31%) Claim depth 12.6 pts (37%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Orbital Traction · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Orbital's Innovation Score is 34.3/100 (47th percentile 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 Orbital?

Each dot is one of Orbital’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). Orbital’s own 21.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Orbital's grants concentrate

Orbital Traction, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 91.7% of grants classified under F16H (Gearing). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Orbital sits between Opendoor Labs Inc. and Ortho Systems.

Orbital's three-year grant acceleration

Orbital Traction, Ltd. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Opendoor Labs

12
Orangedot

12
Orangebox

12
Orbital Sciences

12
Oregon Tool

12
Origami Owl

12
Orphazyme A/S

12
Ortho Systems

12
Orbital Traction ◀

12

What this shows Orbital holds 12 patents at rank #23,144, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Orbital

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,144 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16H (Gearing)

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

Orbital's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 47th percentile higher than 47% 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.

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Orbital Traction, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	8.3%
2016	2	16.7%
2017	3	25.0%
2018	2	16.7%
2019	2	16.7%
2020	1	8.3%
2022	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Orbital Traction, Ltd. patent most?

F16H - Gearing 11

F03D - Wind Motors 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 3

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 3

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 3

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 2

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Orbital Traction, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Orbital Traction, Ltd.'s lead technology class is F16H (Gearing), 91.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16H
Ranked #23,146 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Orbital Traction, Ltd. against Opendoor Labs Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.3/100 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.