Where does S9, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), S9, LLC ranks #9,361 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 S9, LLC hold?

S9, LLC holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is S9, LLC's Innovation Score?

S9, LLC has an Innovation Score of 26.8 out of 100 (21st 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 S9, LLC focus on?

S9, LLC's top technology area is A43B (Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is S9, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

S9, LLC's recent grant velocity is -38% 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 S9, LLC's patents?

S9, LLC's patents average 6.2 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 S9, 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

S9, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A43B (Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, S9 ranks #9,361 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 5 technology areas.

#9,361
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 21st percentile
by Innovation Score (26.8/100): 6.2
avg claims per patent: -38%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9361 · US Corporation #9,361 · 34 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,361/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Rebiotix
CPC-NARROW A43B · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 26.8/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -38% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Rebiotix 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
LaCrosse Footwear · near

27
Lightbend · near

27
Linde Material… · near

27
MSD Wellcome Trust… · near

27
S9 · this assignee

27
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows S9's Innovation Score is 26.8/100 (21st 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.

Where S9's grants concentrate

S9, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 29.4% of grants classified under A43B (Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, S9 sits between Rxsafe LLC and Shenzhen TCL Digital Technology Ltd..

S9's three-year grant acceleration

S9, LLC shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Rxsafe

34
Rebiotix

34
Robertson Intelle…

34
Rock Solid Indust…

34
Saint-gobain Perf…

34
Santa Clara Unive…

34
SDG

34
Shenzhen TCL Digi…

34
S9 ◀

34

What this shows S9 holds 34 patents at rank #9,361, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near S9

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,361 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A43B (Characteristic Features OF Footwear)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in S9's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for S9, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (27 here).

LaCrosse Footwear, Inc. 27 Lightbend, Inc. 27 Linde Material Handling GmbH 27 MSD Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories PVT. Ltd. 27

S9's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 21st percentile higher than 21% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

S9, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.9%
2017	6	17.6%
2018	7	20.6%
2019	7	20.6%
2020	5	14.7%
2021	2	5.9%
2022	4	11.8%
2024	2	5.9%

Which technologies does S9, LLC patent most?

A43B - Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear 10

A43C - Fastenings OR Attachments OF FOOTWEAR; Laces IN General 6

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 1

B67B - Applying Closure Members TO Bottles Jars, OR Similar CONTAINERS; Opening Closed Containers 1

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#9,361

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

26.8 out of 100

View all rankings →

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

S9, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

S9, LLC's lead technology class is A43B (Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear), 29.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A43B
Ranked #9,361 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare S9, LLC against Rxsafe LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 26.8/100 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

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.