Where does Pluto Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pluto Inc. ranks #9,103 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 Pluto Inc. hold?

Pluto Inc. holds 35 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Pluto Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Pluto Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.8 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Pluto Inc. focus on?

Pluto Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 35 patents, ranking #499 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

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

Pluto Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +150% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Pluto Inc.'s patents average 26.0 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 Pluto 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

Pluto Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 35 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pluto ranks #9,103 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 35 patents across 7 technology areas.

#9,103
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.8/100): 26.0
avg claims per patent: +150%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9103 · US Corporation #9,103 · 35 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 35 grants
UPPER-Q #9,103/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Occlutech
CPC-NARROW H04N · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 26.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +150% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Occlutech GmbH (±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 Pluto’s 47.8 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 12.4 pts (26%) Velocity 11.1 pts (23%) Breadth 9.4 pts (20%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Airbus Americas · near

48
DTS · near

48
Hongik University… · near

48
Ningbo Tuotuo River… · near

48
Pluto · this assignee

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pluto's Innovation Score is 47.8/100 (top 18% 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 Pluto?

Each dot is one of Pluto’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). Pluto’s own 26.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Pluto's grants concentrate

Pluto Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Pluto sits between Occlutech GmbH and Project Canary, PBC.

Pluto's three-year grant acceleration

Pluto Inc. shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Occlutech

35
P&W Solutions

35
Panasonic Semicon…

35
Pari Pharma

35
Polymer Technolog…

35
Portland State Un…

35
Profound Medical

35
Project Canary PBC

35
Pluto ◀

35

What this shows Pluto holds 35 patents at rank #9,102, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pluto

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,102 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Pluto, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Pluto ranks #499 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Hongik University Industry-academia Cooperation Foundation 48 Ningbo Tuotuo River Design Company 48 DTS, Inc. 48 Airbus Americas, Inc. 48

Pluto's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Pluto Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	2.9%
2017	2	5.7%
2018	1	2.9%
2019	4	11.4%
2020	2	5.7%
2021	3	8.6%
2022	6	17.1%
2023	6	17.1%
2024	3	8.6%
2025partial year	7	20.0%

Which technologies does Pluto Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 35

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

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

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

Top 7 of 7 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

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

Pluto Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #9,103 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pluto Inc. against Occlutech GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.8/100 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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