Where does Skier's Choice, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Skier's Choice, Inc. ranks #9,872 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 Skier's Choice, Inc. hold?

Skier's Choice, Inc. holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Skier's Choice, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Skier's Choice, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.5 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Skier's Choice, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Skier's Choice, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +42% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Skier's Choice, Inc.'s patents?

Skier's Choice, Inc.'s patents average 21.6 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 Skier's Choice, 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

Skier's Choice, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Skier's Choice, Inc. focus on?

Skier's Choice, Inc.'s top technology area is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping) with 32 patents. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Skier's ranks #9,872 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 6 technology areas.

#9,872
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.5/100): 21.6
avg claims per patent: +42%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9872 · US Corporation #9,872 · 32 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,872/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sande B V
CPC-NARROW B63B · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +42% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sande. B.V. (±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
Loxo Oncology · near

38
Twitch Interactive · near

38
Franklin Sensors · near

38
Skier's Choice · this assignee

38
Sunstar Suisse · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Skier's's Innovation Score is 37.5/100 (top 43% 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 Skier's's grants concentrate

Skier's Choice, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Skier's sits between Sande. B.V. and Spiber Inc..

Skier's's three-year grant acceleration

Skier's Choice, Inc. shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Sande B V

32
Saurer Spinning S…

32
Seeqc

32
Shenzhen Goldsun…

32
Smith's Consumer…

32
Smiths Detection

32
Spansion

32
Spiber

32
Skier's Choice ◀

32

What this shows Skier's holds 32 patents at rank #9,882, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Skier's

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,882 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne Vessels)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Skier's, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Franklin Sensors Inc. 38 Loxo Oncology, Inc. 38 Twitch Interactive, Inc. 38 Sunstar Suisse SA 37

Skier's's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Skier's Choice, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	6.3%
2018	5	15.6%
2019	5	15.6%
2020	6	18.8%
2021	3	9.4%
2022	3	9.4%
2023	4	12.5%
2024	1	3.1%
2025partial year	3	9.4%

Which technologies does Skier's Choice, Inc. patent most?

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 32

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 9

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 9

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 5

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#9,872

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

37.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Skier's Choice, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Skier's Choice, Inc.'s lead technology class is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B63B
Ranked #9,872 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Skier's Choice, Inc. against Sande. B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.5/100 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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