Where does Selex ES Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Selex ES Inc. ranks #21,738 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Selex ES Inc. hold?

Selex ES Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Selex ES Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Selex ES Inc. has an Innovation Score of 38.9 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Selex ES Inc. focus on?

Selex ES Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Selex ES Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Selex ES Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -92% 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 Selex ES Inc.'s patents?

Selex ES Inc.'s patents average 15.0 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 Selex ES 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

Selex ES Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 16 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: H04N (PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Selex ranks #21,738 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 16 technology areas.

#21,738
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (38.9/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: -92%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21738 · US Corporation #21,738 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,738/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Scent2Market
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -92% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Scent2market 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
Selex ES · this assignee

39
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Selex's Innovation Score is 38.9/100 (top 39% 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 Selex's grants concentrate

Selex ES Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 30.8% of grants classified under H04N (PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Selex sits between Scent2market Inc. and Service Ideas, Inc..

Scent2market

13
Scoperta

13
Seaboard Internat…

13
Secured Mobility

13
Sentinel Medical

13
Sergeant's Pet Ca…

13
Server Products

13
Service Ideas

13
Selex ES ◀

13

What this shows Selex holds 13 patents at rank #21,799, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Selex

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,799 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Selex's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% of 50,000 US assignees

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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.

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Selex ES Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	30.8%
2016	5	38.5%
2017	3	23.1%
2024	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Selex ES Inc. patent most?

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 4

G01S - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES 4

Y02A - TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE 1

G01J - MEASUREMENT OF INTENSITY, VELOCITY, SPECTRAL CONTENT, POLARISATION, PHASE OR PULSE CHARACTERISTICS OF INFRARED, VISIBLE OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; RADIATION PYROMETRY 1

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 1

H10F - INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES SENSITIVE TO INFRARED RADIATION, LIGHT, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OF SHORTER WAVELENGTH OR CORPUSCULAR RADIATION 1

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 1

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 1

H03F - AMPLIFIERS 1

H03G - CONTROL OF AMPLIFICATION 1

H04B - TRANSMISSION 1

G06V - IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING 1

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 1

H01S - DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL 1

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 1

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,738

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

38.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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