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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Piksel, Inc. ranks #5,867 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 Piksel, Inc. hold?

Piksel, Inc. holds 58 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Piksel, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Piksel, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 38.3 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Piksel, Inc. focus on?

Piksel, Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 47 patents, ranking #388 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

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

Piksel, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +64% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Piksel, Inc.'s patents average 18.9 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 Piksel, 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

Piksel, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 58 granted patents across 11 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Piksel ranks #5,867 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 58 patents across 11 technology areas.

#5,867
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.3/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: +64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5867 · US Corporation #5,867 · 58 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 58 grants
UPPER-Q #5,867/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH National Nail
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: National Nail Corp. (±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 Piksel’s 38.3 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 14.1 pts (37%) Velocity 1.2 pts (3%) Breadth 11.7 pts (31%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
In2Bones USA · near

38
Edge-Works Manufactu… · near

38
Medal Sports (TAIWAN) · near

38
Orion Energy Systems · near

38
Piksel · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Piksel's Innovation Score is 38.3/100 (top 41% 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 Piksel?

Each dot is one of Piksel’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). Piksel’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Piksel's grants concentrate

Piksel, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 81% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (23 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Piksel sits between Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd. and Qizhi Software (BEIJING) Company Limited.

Piksel's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Piksel, Inc. moved from 40 to 7 grants (0.17x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Nippon Thompson

58
Nortek Security &…

58
National Nail

58
Omni Medsci

58
PTC

58
Polytec

58
Prothena Bioscien…

58
Qizhi Software (B…

58
Piksel ◀

58

What this shows Piksel holds 58 patents at rank #5,867, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Piksel

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,867 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Piksel, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Piksel ranks #388 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Orion Energy Systems, Inc. 38 Edge-Works Manufacturing Company 38 Medal Sports (TAIWAN) Corporation 38 In2Bones USA, LLC 38

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.9 here).

Gogo Business Aviation LLC 18.9 avg Humanetics Corporation 18.9 avg Gravic, Inc. 18.9 avg u-blox AG 18.9 avg

Piksel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% 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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Piksel, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	3.4%
2016	2	3.4%
2017	3	5.2%
2018	4	6.9%
2019	11	19.0%
2020	23	39.7%
2021	6	10.3%
2022	7	12.1%

Which technologies does Piksel, Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 47

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 23

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 23

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 13

H04H - Broadcast Communication 11

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 11 of 11 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

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

Piksel, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 81% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #5,867 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Piksel, Inc. against Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.3/100 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

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