Where does Saturn Licensing LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Saturn Licensing LLC ranks #651 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 Saturn Licensing LLC hold?

Saturn Licensing LLC holds 689 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 57 technology areas.

What is Saturn Licensing LLC's Innovation Score?

Saturn Licensing LLC has an Innovation Score of 63.4 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Saturn Licensing LLC focus on?

Saturn Licensing LLC's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 440 patents, ranking #67 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 57 CPC subclasses total.

Is Saturn Licensing LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Saturn Licensing LLC's recent grant velocity is +73% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Saturn Licensing LLC's patents?

Saturn Licensing LLC's patents average 18.0 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 Saturn Licensing 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

Saturn Licensing LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 689 granted patents across 57 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, Saturn ranks #651 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 689 patents across 57 technology areas.

#651
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.4/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: +73%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R651 · US Corporation #651 · 689 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 689 grants
TOP-DECILE #651/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Carl Zeiss Meditec
CPC-WIDE H04N · 57 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +73% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (±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 Saturn’s 63.4 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 22.6 pts (36%) Velocity 5.1 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Advantest · near

63
Saturn Licensing · this assignee

63
China University of… · near

63
Janssen Pharmaceutic… · near

63
Raven Industries · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Saturn's Innovation Score is 63.4/100 (top 2% 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 Saturn?

Each dot is one of Saturn’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). Saturn’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Saturn's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Saturn Licensing LLC received 418 grants versus 242 in 2015–2019 (+73% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 101 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 1. Lead class H04N accounts for 63.9% of the portfolio across 57 subclasses. Volume neighbours: University of Washington (#647) and The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (#655).

Saturn's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Saturn Licensing LLC moved from 288 to 219 grants (0.76x 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 #1,961. See the growth leaderboard.

University of Was…

691
Immatics Biotechn…

690
Rivian IP Holdings

690
Carl Zeiss Meditec

689
Saturn Licensing ◀

689
The Research Foun…

688
Evonik Degussa

686
GM Cruise Holdings

685
The Brigham and W…

685

What this shows Saturn holds 689 patents at rank #651, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Saturn

By rank, the assignees closest to #651 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Saturn, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Saturn ranks #67 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 63 Raven Industries, inc. 63 China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing 63 Advantest Corporation 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.0 here).

Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. 18.0 avg Guardian Glass, LLC 18.0 avg Saint-gobain Abrasives, Inc. 18.0 avg The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 18.0 avg

Saturn's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Saturn Licensing LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	0.1%
2017	57	8.3%
2018	95	13.8%
2019	89	12.9%
2020	98	14.2%
2021	101	14.7%
2022	93	13.5%
2023	67	9.7%
2024	59	8.6%
2025partial year	29	4.2%

Which technologies does Saturn Licensing LLC patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 440

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 209

H04H - Broadcast Communication 153

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 109

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 97

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 53

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 53

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 52

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 29

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 29

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 28

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 27

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 20

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 20

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 20

Top 15 of 57 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

Saturn Licensing LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Saturn Licensing LLC's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 63.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #651 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Saturn Licensing LLC against University of Washington, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.4/100 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.