Where does SmartDrive Systems, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SmartDrive Systems, Inc. ranks #3,209 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 SmartDrive Systems, Inc. hold?

SmartDrive Systems, Inc. holds 117 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is SmartDrive Systems, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

SmartDrive Systems, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.0 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

SmartDrive Systems, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +11% 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 SmartDrive Systems, Inc.'s patents?

SmartDrive Systems, Inc.'s patents average 17.7 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 SmartDrive Systems, 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

SmartDrive Systems, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does SmartDrive Systems, Inc. focus on?

SmartDrive Systems, Inc.'s top technology area is G07C (Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere) with 74 patents. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 117 granted patents across 26 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: G07C (Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FO).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Smartdrive ranks #3,209 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 117 patents across 26 technology areas.

#3,209
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (52.0/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: +11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3209 · US Corporation #3,209 · 117 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 117 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,209/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Modine Manufacturing
CPC-FOCUS G07C · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Modine Manufacturing 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Orbital Research · near

52
SmartDrive Systems · this assignee

52
DE LA RUE Internatio… · near

52
Industry-Academic… · near

52
Otto Bock Healthcare · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Smartdrive's Innovation Score is 52.0/100 (top 11% 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 Smartdrive's grants concentrate

SmartDrive Systems, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 63.2% of grants classified under G07C (Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FO). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (17 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2016. By volume, Smartdrive sits between Modine Manufacturing Company and The University Of North Carolina At Charlotte.

Smartdrive's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, SmartDrive Systems, Inc. moved from 35 to 36 grants (1.03x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,108. See the growth leaderboard.

Modine Manufactur…

117
Nasdaq Technology…

117
Playnitride

117
SII Printek

117
Takasago Internat…

117
Tectus

117
Teleflex Life Sci…

117
The University Of…

117
Smartdrive Systems ◀

117

What this shows SmartDrive holds 117 patents at rank #3,209, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SmartDrive

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,209 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07C (Time OR Attendance Registers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Chosun University 52 Orbital Research Inc. 52 Otto Bock Healthcare LP 52 DE LA RUE International Limited 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Zimmer Spine, Inc. 17.7 avg Lund Motion Products, Inc. 17.7 avg Grundfos Holding A/S 17.7 avg Nissan North America, Inc. 17.7 avg

Smartdrive's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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SmartDrive Systems, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	5.1%
2016	5	4.3%
2017	17	14.5%
2018	15	12.8%
2019	11	9.4%
2020	16	13.7%
2021	8	6.8%
2022	8	6.8%
2023	16	13.7%
2024	12	10.3%
2025partial year	3	2.6%

Which technologies does SmartDrive Systems, Inc. patent most?

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 74

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 55

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 30

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 24

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 23

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 22

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 21

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 21

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 20

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 19

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 18

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 12

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

B61L - Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic 7

Top 15 of 26 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,209

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.0 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

SmartDrive Systems, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

SmartDrive Systems, Inc.'s lead technology class is G07C (Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FO), 63.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G07C
Ranked #3,209 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SmartDrive Systems, Inc. against Modine Manufacturing Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.0/100 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

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