Where does Skycatch, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Skycatch, Inc. ranks #15,631 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 Skycatch, Inc. hold?

Skycatch, Inc. holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2020, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Skycatch, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Skycatch, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 34.3 out of 100 (top 53% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Skycatch, Inc. focus on?

Skycatch, Inc.'s top technology area is B64U (UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES [UAV]; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

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

Skycatch, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -88% 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 Skycatch, Inc.'s patents?

Skycatch, Inc.'s patents average 17.8 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 Skycatch, 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

Skycatch, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2020. 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: B64U (UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES [UAV]; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Skycatch ranks #15,631 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 14 technology areas.

#15,631
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 53%
by Innovation Score (34.3/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -88%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15631 · US Corporation #15,631 · 19 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,631/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Shenzhen YouMe Infor…
CPC-FOCUS B64U · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -88% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shenzhen Youme Information 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Skycatch · this assignee

34
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Skycatch, Inc. stamps GRANTS-MICRO, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #15,631 of 50,000; Innovation Score 34.3/100 sits in the top 53% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Shenzhen Youme Information Technology Co., Ltd (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Skycatch, Inc. has been granted 19 US utility patents between 2016 and 2020, placing Skycatch, Inc. at #15,631 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 14 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 17.8 claims per patent with primary concentration in B64U (UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES [UAV]; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR). As a US Corporation, Skycatch, Inc. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Skycatch sits between Shenzhen Youme Information Technology Co., Ltd (19 patents, rank #15,640) and South 8 Technologies, Inc. (19 patents, rank #15,648) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 34.3/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 2 grants, compared with 17 in the 2015–2019 window, a -88% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Skycatch, Inc.'s 17.8 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 14 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Shenzhen Youme In…

19
Siempelkamp Masch…

19
Skybitz

19
Skyhawke

19
Skytap

19
Smugmug

19
Somero Enterprises

19
South 8

19
Skycatch ◀

19

What this shows Skycatch holds 19 patents at rank #15,644, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Skycatch

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,644 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV])

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

Skycatch's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 Top 53% higher than 47% of 50,000 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2020

Grants by year

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

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Skycatch, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	6	31.6%
2017	4	21.1%
2018	3	15.8%
2019	4	21.1%
2020	2	10.5%

Which technologies does Skycatch, Inc. patent most?

B64U - UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES [UAV]; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR 9

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 7

G05D - SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES 7

G08G - TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS 7

G06V - IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING 5

G01C - MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY 5

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 2

B64F - GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT; DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING, CLEANING, MAINTAINING OR REPAIRING AIRCRAFT, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HANDLING, TRANSPORTING, TESTING OR INSPECTING AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDE 2

B64C - AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS 2

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 2

H02J - CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY 1

H04W - WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 1

Y02T - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION 1

B60L - PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES ; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES ; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL ; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICL 1

Top 14 of 14 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#15,631

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

34.3 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

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