Where does Placo Bubbles Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Placo Bubbles Limited ranks #20,243 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 Placo Bubbles Limited hold?

Placo Bubbles Limited holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2023, spanning 1 technology areas.

What is Placo Bubbles Limited's Innovation Score?

Placo Bubbles Limited has an Innovation Score of 17.4 out of 100 (4th 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 Placo Bubbles Limited focus on?

Placo Bubbles Limited's top technology area is A63H (Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks) with 7 patents, ranking #47 of 312 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 1 CPC subclasses total.

Is Placo Bubbles Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Placo Bubbles Limited'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 Placo Bubbles Limited's patents?

Placo Bubbles Limited's patents average 4.5 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 Placo Bubbles Limited 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 Foreign Corporation

Placo Bubbles Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 1 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2023. 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: A63H (Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Placo ranks #20,243 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 1 technology areas.

#20,243
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 4th percentile
by Innovation Score (17.4/100): 4.5
avg claims per patent: +80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20243 · Foreign Corporation #20,243 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,243/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pelican International
CPC-NARROW A63H · 1 areas
INNOV-LOW 17.4/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pelican International 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 Placo’s 17.4 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 9.4 pts (54%) Velocity 1.8 pts (10%) Breadth 3.5 pts (20%) Claim depth 2.7 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Placo Bubbles · this assignee

17
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Placo's Innovation Score is 17.4/100 (4th 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 Placo?

Each dot is one of Placo’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). Placo’s own 4.5 claims/patent is at or below the 17.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Placo's grants concentrate

Placo Bubbles Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under A63H (Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Placo sits between Pelican International Inc. and Plexium, Inc..

Placo's three-year grant acceleration

Placo Bubbles Limited shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Pelican Internati…

14
Phillips & Temro…

14
Pipe Restoration

14
Pipp Mobile Stora…

14
Plantas de Navarr…

14
Plastek Industries

14
Playmakar

14
Plexium

14
Placo Bubbles ◀

14

What this shows Placo holds 14 patents at rank #20,254, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Placo

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,254 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63H (Toys)

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

Placo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

17 4th percentile higher than 4% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2023

Grants by year

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

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Placo Bubbles Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	5	35.7%
2020	6	42.9%
2022	2	14.3%
2023	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Placo Bubbles Limited patent most?

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 7

Top 1 of 1 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

Placo Bubbles Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Placo Bubbles Limited's lead technology class is A63H (Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63H
Ranked #20,243 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Placo Bubbles Limited against Pelican International Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 17.4/100 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.