Where does SDB IP Holdings, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SDB IP Holdings, LLC ranks #7,770 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 SDB IP Holdings, LLC hold?

SDB IP Holdings, LLC holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is SDB IP Holdings, LLC's Innovation Score?

SDB IP Holdings, LLC has an Innovation Score of 40.6 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does SDB IP Holdings, LLC focus on?

SDB IP Holdings, LLC's top technology area is E03D (Water-closets OR Urinals With Flushing DEVICES; Flushing Valves Therefor) with 29 patents, ranking #7 of 128 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is SDB IP Holdings, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SDB IP Holdings, LLC's recent grant velocity is -75% 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 SDB IP Holdings, LLC's patents?

SDB IP Holdings, LLC's patents average 15.3 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 SDB IP Holdings, 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

SDB IP Holdings, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: E03D (Water-closets OR Urinals With Flushing DEVICES; Flushing Valves Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, SDB ranks #7,770 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 20 technology areas.

#7,770
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.6/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: -75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7770 · US Corporation #7,770 · 42 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,770/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SAFILO—SOCIETÀ…
CPC-FOCUS E03D · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SAFILO—SOCIETÀ Azionaria Fabbrica Italiana Lavorazione Occhiali S.P.A. (±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 SDB’s 40.6 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 13.0 pts (32%) Velocity 2.7 pts (7%) Breadth 15.8 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gustav Magenwirth & · near

41
NeuroNexus · near

41
Qumulo · near

41
SDB IP Holdings · this assignee

41
Toshiba Solutions · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows SDB's Innovation Score is 40.6/100 (top 35% 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 SDB?

Each dot is one of SDB’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). SDB’s own 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where SDB's grants concentrate

SDB IP Holdings, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 69% of grants classified under E03D (Water-closets OR Urinals With Flushing DEVICES; Flushing Valves Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, SDB sits between SAFILO—SOCIETÀ Azionaria Fabbrica Italiana Lavorazione Occhiali S.P.A. and SI Group, Inc..

SDB's three-year grant acceleration

SDB IP Holdings, LLC shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Safilo—SocietÀ Az…

42
Samsung Techwin

42
Santec Holdings

42
Schott Pharma Sch…

42
Shanghai Bright P…

42
Shenzhen DO Intel…

42
Shenzhen Relx Tec…

42
SI Group

42
SDB IP Holdings ◀

42

What this shows SDB holds 42 patents at rank #7,768, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SDB

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,768 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E03D (Water-closets OR Urinals With Flushing Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for SDB, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E03D (Water-closets OR Urinals With Flushing Devices), SDB ranks #7 of 128 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

NeuroNexus Technologies, Inc. 41 Qumulo, Inc. 41 Toshiba Solutions Corporation 41 Gustav Magenwirth GmbH & Co. 41

SDB's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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SDB IP Holdings, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	16.7%
2016	10	23.8%
2017	3	7.1%
2018	6	14.3%
2019	6	14.3%
2020	2	4.8%
2021	2	4.8%
2022	1	2.4%
2023	1	2.4%
2024	2	4.8%
2025partial year	2	4.8%

Which technologies does SDB IP Holdings, LLC patent most?

E03D - Water-closets OR Urinals With Flushing DEVICES; Flushing Valves Therefor 29

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 21

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 20

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 13

E03C - Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks 11

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 7

A47K - Sanitary Equipment NOT Otherwise Provided FOR ; Toilet Accessories 5

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 5

E03F - SEWERS; Cesspools 4

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 4

E03B - Installations OR Methods FOR Obtaining, Collecting, OR Distributing Water 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 3

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 3

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 2

Top 15 of 20 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

SDB IP Holdings, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

SDB IP Holdings, LLC's lead technology class is E03D (Water-closets OR Urinals With Flushing DEVICES; Flushing Valves Therefor), 69% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E03D
Ranked #7,770 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SDB IP Holdings, LLC against SAFILO—SOCIETÀ Azionaria Fabbrica Italiana Lavorazione Occhiali S.P.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.6/100 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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