Where does PlayNitride Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), PlayNitride Inc. ranks #3,207 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 PlayNitride Inc. hold?

PlayNitride Inc. holds 117 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is PlayNitride Inc.'s Innovation Score?

PlayNitride Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.7 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does PlayNitride Inc. focus on?

PlayNitride Inc.'s top technology area is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers) with 99 patents, ranking #31 of 857 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

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

PlayNitride Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -33% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

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

PlayNitride Inc.'s patents average 13.9 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 PlayNitride 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 Foreign Corporation

PlayNitride Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 117 granted patents across 27 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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: H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Playnitride ranks #3,207 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 117 patents across 27 technology areas.

#3,207
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.7/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3207 · Foreign Corporation #3,207 · 117 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 117 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,207/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Leidos
CPC-FOCUS H10H · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Leidos, 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 Playnitride’s 44.7 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 16.5 pts (37%) Velocity 1.5 pts (3%) Breadth 18.4 pts (41%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chongqing Jinkang… · near

45
FlatFrog Laboratorie… · near

45
Linak A/S · near

45
Neonode · near

45
PlayNitride · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Playnitride's Innovation Score is 44.7/100 (top 25% 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 Playnitride?

Each dot is one of Playnitride’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). Playnitride’s own 13.9 claims/patent is at or below the 15.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Playnitride's grants concentrate

PlayNitride Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 84.6% of grants classified under H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (24 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2023. By volume, Playnitride sits between Leidos, Inc. and Tectus Corporation.

Playnitride's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, PlayNitride Inc. moved from 56 to 13 grants (0.23x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #3,063. See the growth leaderboard.

Leidos

117
Merry (Shenzhen)

117
Modine Manufactur…

117
Nasdaq Technology…

117
SII Printek

117
Smartdrive Systems

117
Takasago Internat…

117
Tectus

117
Playnitride ◀

117

What this shows PlayNitride holds 117 patents at rank #3,207, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near PlayNitride

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,207 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Pot…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for PlayNitride, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Pot…), PlayNitride ranks #31 of 857 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Linak A/S 45 FlatFrog Laboratories AB 45 Neonode Inc. 45 Chongqing Jinkang NEW Energy Vehicle Co., Ltd. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.9 here).

SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited 13.9 avg MakerBot Industries, LLC 13.9 avg Ossur Iceland EHF 13.9 avg Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg 13.9 avg

Playnitride's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

Grants by year

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

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PlayNitride Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	7	6.0%
2017	24	20.5%
2018	17	14.5%
2019	22	18.8%
2020	23	19.7%
2021	11	9.4%
2022	7	6.0%
2023	6	5.1%

Which technologies does PlayNitride Inc. patent most?

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 99

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 87

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 13

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 8

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 7

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 7

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 5

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 4

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

Top 15 of 27 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

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

PlayNitride Inc.'s lead technology class is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers), 84.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10H
Ranked #3,207 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare PlayNitride Inc. against Leidos, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.7/100 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

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