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Planetary Resources Development Corp.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2017. 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: B64G (COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Planetary ranks #49,638 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 3 technology areas.

#49,638
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
6th percentile
by Innovation Score (19.3/100)
11.6
avg claims per patent
-100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R49638 · US Corporation #49,638 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
  • BOTTOM-DECILE #49,638/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Pionyr Immunotherape…
  • CPC-NARROW B64G · 3 areas
  • INNOV-LOW 19.3/100
  • CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
  • VEL-DROP -100% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pionyr Immunotherapeutics, 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 Planetary’s 19.3 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Planetary

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Planetary's Innovation Score is 19.3/100 (6th 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Planetary?

Each dot is one of Planetary’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). Planetary’s own 11.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Planetary vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 4.95.05.055.05.05.1 01020304050 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Pionyr Immunotherapeutics, Inc. - 5, 43.8Pionyr Immunother…Pit Bull Products, Inc. - 5, 11Pit Bull ProductsPixeLED Display Co., Ltd. - 5, 16.8Pixeled DisplayPlanet Canit, LLC - 5, 10.8Planet CanitPlant Food Systems, Inc. - 5, 15Plant Food SystemsPlasgad Plastic Products ACS Ltd - 5, 10.8Plasgad Plastic P…Plastic Ingenuity, Inc. - 5, 8Plastic IngenuityPlastics Industry Development Center - 5, 6.4Plastics Industry…Planetary Resources Development Corp. - 5, 11.6Planetary Resourc…
Planetary vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Planetary's grants concentrate

Planetary Resources Development Corp. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under B64G (COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Planetary sits between Pionyr Immunotherapeutics, Inc. and Plastics Industry Development Center.

Who files at Planetary's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Planetary holds 5 patents at rank #49,746, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Planetary

By rank, the assignees closest to #49,746 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64G (Cosmonautics)

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

Planetary's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

19 6th percentile higher than 6% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

012345 20162017 1
USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2017

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Planetary Resources Development Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2016 4 80.0%
2017 1 20.0%

Which technologies does Planetary Resources Development Corp. patent most?

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Planetary Resources Development Corp.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Planetary Resources Development Corp.'s lead technology class is B64G (COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64G
  • Ranked #49,638 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Planetary Resources Development Corp. against Pionyr Immunotherapeutics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 19.3/100 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

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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

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.