Where does Pilot Travel Centers, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pilot Travel Centers, LLC ranks #49,612 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 Pilot Travel Centers, LLC hold?

Pilot Travel Centers, LLC holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Pilot Travel Centers, LLC's Innovation Score?

Pilot Travel Centers, LLC has an Innovation Score of 31.7 out of 100 (39th 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 Pilot Travel Centers, LLC focus on?

Pilot Travel Centers, LLC's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 5 patents, ranking #6,197 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Pilot Travel Centers, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Pilot Travel Centers, LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Pilot Travel Centers, LLC's patents?

Pilot Travel Centers, LLC's patents average 17.0 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 Pilot Travel Centers, LLC 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

Pilot Travel Centers, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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, Pilot ranks #49,612 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 6 technology areas.

#49,612
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 39th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.7/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R49612 · US Corporation #49,612 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #49,612/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Picolife
CPC-NARROW G06F · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Picolife Technologies, 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.

How Pilot’s 31.7 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 6.2 pts (19%) Velocity 6.7 pts (21%) Breadth 8.7 pts (27%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Pilot Travel Centers · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pilot's Innovation Score is 31.7/100 (39th 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 Pilot?

Each dot is one of Pilot’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). Pilot’s own 17.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Pilot's grants concentrate

Pilot Travel Centers, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). By volume, Pilot sits between Picolife Technologies, LLC and Pinnacle Imaging Corporation.

Pilot's three-year grant acceleration

Pilot Travel Centers, LLC shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Picolife

5
Piearcings

5
Pigro Felice Lts

5
Pike Therapeutics

5
Pine Development

5
Pinger

5
Pinnacle 20

5
Pinnacle Imaging

5
Pilot Travel Cent… ◀

5

What this shows Pilot holds 5 patents at rank #49,735, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pilot

By rank, the assignees closest to #49,735 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Pilot's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 39th percentile higher than 39% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Pilot Travel Centers, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	20.0%
2024	1	20.0%
2025partial year	3	60.0%

Which technologies does Pilot Travel Centers, LLC patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

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 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

B60S - Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Pilot Travel Centers, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pilot Travel Centers, LLC's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #49,612 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pilot Travel Centers, LLC against Picolife Technologies, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.7/100 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

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.