Where does Short Circuit Technologies LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Short Circuit Technologies LLC ranks #20,421 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 Short Circuit Technologies LLC hold?

Short Circuit Technologies LLC holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2021, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Short Circuit Technologies LLC's Innovation Score?

Short Circuit Technologies LLC has an Innovation Score of 34.6 out of 100 (48th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Short Circuit Technologies LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Short Circuit Technologies LLC's recent grant velocity is -83% 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 Short Circuit Technologies LLC's patents?

Short Circuit Technologies LLC's patents average 19.2 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 Short Circuit Technologies 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

Short Circuit Technologies LLC

Q: What technology areas does Short Circuit Technologies LLC focus on?

Short Circuit Technologies LLC's top technology area is H03L (Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses) with 7 patents, ranking #85 of 413 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. 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: H03L (Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Short ranks #20,421 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 15 technology areas.

#20,421
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 48th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.6/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: -83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20421 · US Corporation #20,421 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,421/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shared Spectrum
CPC-FOCUS H03L · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -83% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shared Spectrum Company (±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 Short’s 34.6 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 9.4 pts (27%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 13.7 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Exabeam · near

35
Short Circuit · this assignee

35
Chyng Hong · near

35
Medical Diagnostic… · near

35
Quixey · near

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Short's Innovation Score is 34.6/100 (48th percentile 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 Short?

Each dot is one of Short’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). Short’s own 19.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Short's grants concentrate

Short Circuit Technologies LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under H03L (Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Short sits between Shared Spectrum Company and Simpler Postage, Inc..

Shared Spectrum

14
Shenzhen Colorii…

14
Shenzhen Pu Ying…

14
Shenzhen Zhongmin…

14
Shriners Hospital…

14
Sikora

14
Silver Creek Ston…

14
Simpler Postage

14
Short Circuit ◀

14

What this shows Short holds 14 patents at rank #20,445, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Short

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,445 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H03L (Automatic Control)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Short, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H03L (Automatic Control), Short ranks #85 of 413 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Exabeam, Inc. 35 Medical Diagnostic Laboratories, LLC 35 Quixey, Inc. 35 Chyng Hong Electronic Co., Ltd. 35

Short's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 48th percentile higher than 48% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Short Circuit Technologies LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	5	35.7%
2017	4	28.6%
2018	2	14.3%
2019	1	7.1%
2020	1	7.1%
2021	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Short Circuit Technologies LLC patent most?

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 7

H03J - Tuning Resonant CIRCUITS; Selecting Resonant Circuits 7

H03B - Generation OF Oscillations, Directly OR BY Frequency-changing, BY Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate IN A Non-switching MANNER; Generation OF Noise BY Such Circuits 7

H03F - Amplifiers 5

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 4

H03K - Pulse Technique 4

G04F - Time-interval Measuring 4

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 4

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 4

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 4

H04B - Transmission 3

H03D - Demodulation OR Transference OF Modulation From ONE Carrier TO Another 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Short Circuit Technologies LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Short Circuit Technologies LLC's lead technology class is H03L (Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H03L
Ranked #20,421 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Short Circuit Technologies LLC against Shared Spectrum Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.6/100 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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