Where does Sightline Payments LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sightline Payments LLC ranks #16,364 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 Sightline Payments LLC hold?

Sightline Payments LLC holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Sightline Payments LLC's Innovation Score?

Sightline Payments LLC has an Innovation Score of 45.0 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sightline Payments LLC focus on?

Sightline Payments LLC's top technology area is G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus) with 18 patents, ranking #113 of 1,075 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sightline Payments LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Sightline Payments LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Sightline Payments LLC's patents?

Sightline Payments LLC's patents average 16.4 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 Sightline Payments 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

Sightline Payments LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sightline ranks #16,364 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 2 technology areas.

#16,364
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.0/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16364 · US Corporation #16,364 · 18 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,364/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shenzhen Huijing…
CPC-NARROW G07F · 2 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shenzhen Huijing Technology Co., Ltd. (±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 Sightline’s 45.0 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 10.2 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (44%) Breadth 5.0 pts (11%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sightline Payments · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sightline's Innovation Score is 45.0/100 (top 24% 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 Sightline?

Each dot is one of Sightline’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). Sightline’s own 16.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sightline's grants concentrate

Sightline Payments LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Sightline sits between Shenzhen Huijing Technology Co., Ltd. and SitePro, Inc..

Sightline's three-year grant acceleration

Sightline Payments LLC shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Shenzhen Huijing…

18
Shenzhen Sunlord

18
Shenzhen Yile Dyn…

18
Shield Restraint…

18
Silicon Light Mac…

18
Silicon Motion Te…

18
Singlestore

18
Sitepro

18
Sightline Payments ◀

18

What this shows Sightline holds 18 patents at rank #16,378, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sightline

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,378 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus)

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

Sightline's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Sightline Payments LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	5.6%
2022	2	11.1%
2023	4	22.2%
2024	4	22.2%
2025partial year	7	38.9%

Which technologies does Sightline Payments LLC patent most?

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 18

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 15

Top 2 of 2 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

Sightline Payments LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sightline Payments LLC's lead technology class is G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G07F
Ranked #16,364 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sightline Payments LLC against Shenzhen Huijing Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.0/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.