Where does Sears Brands, L.L.C. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sears Brands, L.L.C. ranks #2,113 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 Sears Brands, L.L.C. hold?

Sears Brands, L.L.C. holds 187 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 43 technology areas.

What is Sears Brands, L.L.C.'s Innovation Score?

Sears Brands, L.L.C. has an Innovation Score of 46.5 out of 100 (top 21% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sears Brands, L.L.C.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sears Brands, L.L.C.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Sears Brands, L.L.C.'s patents?

Sears Brands, L.L.C.'s patents average 8.7 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 Sears Brands, L.L.C. 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

Sears Brands, L.L.C.

Q: What technology areas does Sears Brands, L.L.C. focus on?

Sears Brands, L.L.C.'s top technology area is 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) with 32 patents, ranking #433 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 43 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 187 granted patents across 43 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sears ranks #2,113 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 187 patents across 43 technology areas.

#2,113
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 21%
by Innovation Score (46.5/100): 8.7
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2113 · US Corporation #2,113 · 187 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 187 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,113/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Go Daddy Operating
CPC-WIDE G06Q · 43 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC (±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 Sears’s 46.5 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 18.1 pts (39%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 23.2 pts (50%) Claim depth 5.2 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Home BOX Office · near

46
Infineum International · near

46
Newport · near

46
Sears Brands L L C · this assignee

46
Sercomm · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sears's Innovation Score is 46.5/100 (top 21% 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 Sears?

Each dot is one of Sears’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). Sears’s own 8.7 claims/patent is at or below the 13.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Sears's grants concentrate

Sears Brands, L.L.C. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 43 CPC subclasses with 17.1% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (57 grants) versus a trough of 12 in 2019. By volume, Sears sits between Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC and Avary Holding (Shenzhen) Co., Limited..

Go Daddy Operating

187
KMW

187
Landis+GYR Innova…

187
Lumus

187
Sichuan University

187
Total

187
UniversitÉ DE Bor…

187
Sears Brands L L C ◀

187
Avary Holding (Sh…

186

What this shows Sears holds 187 patents at rank #2,113, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sears

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,113 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sears, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Sears ranks #433 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Home BOX Office, Inc. 46 Infineum International Limited 46 Sercomm Corporation 46 Newport Corporation 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.7 here).

Pacific Market International, LLC 8.7 avg Kanzaki Kokyukoki MFG. Co., Ltd. 8.7 avg Spin Master Ltd. 8.7 avg Shinkawa Ltd. 8.7 avg

Sears's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 21% higher than 79% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

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

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Sears Brands, L.L.C. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	36	19.3%
2016	57	30.5%
2017	57	30.5%
2018	25	13.4%
2019	12	6.4%

Which technologies does Sears Brands, L.L.C. patent most?

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 32

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 12

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 7

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 5

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 4

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 2

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 2

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 2

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

H04M - Telephonic Communication 2

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

Top 15 of 43 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

Sears Brands, L.L.C.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sears Brands, L.L.C.'s lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 17.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #2,113 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sears Brands, L.L.C. against Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.5/100 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

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