Where does Ouster, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ouster, Inc. ranks #4,974 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 Ouster, Inc. hold?

Ouster, Inc. holds 70 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Ouster, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Ouster, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.9 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Ouster, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +522% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Ouster, Inc.'s patents average 22.8 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 Ouster, 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

Ouster, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Ouster, Inc. focus on?

Ouster, Inc.'s top technology area is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves) with 67 patents, ranking #89 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 70 granted patents across 24 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ouster ranks #4,974 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 70 patents across 24 technology areas.

#4,974
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (50.9/100): 22.8
avg claims per patent: +522%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4974 · US Corporation #4,974 · 70 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 70 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,974/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Neustar
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +522% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Neustar, 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 Ouster’s 50.9 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 14.7 pts (29%) Velocity 5.1 pts (10%) Breadth 17.3 pts (34%) Claim depth 13.7 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Komax Holding · near

51
Leia · near

51
Ouster · this assignee

51
Poly-clip System & KG · near

51
Wanhua Chemical Group · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ouster's Innovation Score is 50.9/100 (top 12% 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 Ouster?

Each dot is one of Ouster’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). Ouster’s own 22.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ouster's grants concentrate

Ouster, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 95.7% of grants classified under G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (17 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2018. By volume, Ouster sits between Neustar, Inc. and Rf360 Singapore Pte. Ltd..

Ouster's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ouster, Inc. moved from 35 to 27 grants (0.77x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Neustar

70
Oatey

70
Omnicell

70
Orbit Irrigation…

70
Outward

70
Popsockets

70
Pelican Imaging

70
Rf360 Singapore P…

70
Ouster ◀

70

What this shows Ouster holds 70 patents at rank #4,974, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ouster

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,974 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ouster, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01S (Radio Direction-finding), Ouster ranks #89 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Komax Holding AG 51 Wanhua Chemical Group Co., Ltd. 51 Poly-clip System GMBH & Co. KG 51 Leia Inc. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.8 here).

Divergent Technologies, Inc. 22.8 avg Vesture LLC 22.8 avg August Home, Inc. 22.8 avg OLogN Technologies AG 22.8 avg

Ouster's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ouster, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	3	4.3%
2019	6	8.6%
2020	12	17.1%
2021	17	24.3%
2022	8	11.4%
2023	9	12.9%
2024	10	14.3%
2025partial year	5	7.1%

Which technologies does Ouster, Inc. patent most?

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 67

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 32

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 30

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 16

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 16

H04B - Transmission 15

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 11

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 10

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 8

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 8

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 8

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 8

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 8

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 8

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

Top 15 of 24 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

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

Ouster, Inc.'s lead technology class is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra), 95.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #4,974 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ouster, Inc. against Neustar, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.9/100 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.

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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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