Where does Seek Thermal, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Seek Thermal, Inc. ranks #6,949 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 Seek Thermal, Inc. hold?

Seek Thermal, Inc. holds 48 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Seek Thermal, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Seek Thermal, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.5 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Seek Thermal, Inc. focus on?

Seek Thermal, Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 32 patents, ranking #546 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

Is Seek Thermal, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Seek Thermal, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -39% 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 Seek Thermal, Inc.'s patents?

Seek Thermal, Inc.'s patents average 14.0 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 Seek Thermal, 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

Seek Thermal, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 48 granted patents across 30 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, Seek ranks #6,949 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 48 patents across 30 technology areas.

#6,949
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.5/100): 14.0
avg claims per patent: -39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6949 · US Corporation #6,949 · 48 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 48 grants
UPPER-Q #6,949/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SanDisk Enterprise IP
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SanDisk Enterprise IP 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 Seek’s 44.5 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 13.4 pts (30%) Velocity 3.3 pts (7%) Breadth 19.4 pts (44%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Botrista · near

45
Amcor Rigid… · near

45
Pellenc · near

45
Seek Thermal · this assignee

45
WCM Industries · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Seek's Innovation Score is 44.5/100 (top 25% 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 Seek?

Each dot is one of Seek’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). Seek’s own 14.0 claims/patent is at or below the 16.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Seek's grants concentrate

Seek Thermal, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Seek sits between Summit Glove Inc. and Sunmodo Corporation.

Seek's three-year grant acceleration

Seek Thermal, Inc. shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Summit Glove

48
Sungkyunkwan Univ…

48
Sandisk Enterpris…

48
Saudi Aramco

48
Shaheen Innovatio…

48
Shenzhen Jisu Tec…

48
Sonus Networks

48
Sunmodo

48
Seek Thermal ◀

48

What this shows Seek holds 48 patents at rank #6,953, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Seek

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,953 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Seek, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Seek ranks #546 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Amcor Rigid Packaging USA, LLC 45 Pellenc 45 WCM Industries, Inc. 45 Botrista, Inc. 45

Seek's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% 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.

View data table

Seek Thermal, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	2.1%
2017	12	25.0%
2018	8	16.7%
2019	7	14.6%
2020	5	10.4%
2021	4	8.3%
2022	2	4.2%
2023	2	4.2%
2024	4	8.3%
2025partial year	3	6.3%

Which technologies does Seek Thermal, Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 32

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 18

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 14

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

H03G - Control OF Amplification 2

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 1

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

Top 15 of 30 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

Seek Thermal, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Seek Thermal, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #6,949 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Seek Thermal, Inc. against Summit Glove Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.5/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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