Where does SnapRays, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SnapRays, LLC ranks #6,710 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 SnapRays, LLC hold?

SnapRays, LLC holds 50 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is SnapRays, LLC's Innovation Score?

SnapRays, LLC has an Innovation Score of 35.7 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is SnapRays, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SnapRays, LLC's recent grant velocity is -31% 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 SnapRays, LLC's patents?

SnapRays, LLC's patents average 11.6 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 SnapRays, 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

SnapRays, LLC

Q: What technology areas does SnapRays, LLC focus on?

SnapRays, LLC's top technology area is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors) with 22 patents, ranking #149 of 2,265 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 50 granted patents across 13 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Snaprays ranks #6,710 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 50 patents across 13 technology areas.

#6,710
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.7/100): 11.6
avg claims per patent: -31%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6710 · US Corporation #6,710 · 50 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 50 grants
UPPER-Q #6,710/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shape
CPC-FOCUS H01R · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -31% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shape Corp. (±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 Snaprays’s 35.7 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 13.6 pts (38%) Velocity 2.4 pts (7%) Breadth 12.7 pts (36%) Claim depth 7.0 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Brose Fahrzeugteile… · near

36
SnapRays · this assignee

36
Tremco Incorporated · near

36
Valtech Cardio · near

36
Nice-systems · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Snaprays's Innovation Score is 35.7/100 (top 49% 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 Snaprays?

Each dot is one of Snaprays’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). Snaprays’s own 11.6 claims/patent is at or below the 12.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Snaprays's grants concentrate

SnapRays, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 44% of grants classified under H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Snaprays sits between Shape Corp. and TGK Co., Ltd..

Snaprays's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, SnapRays, LLC moved from 25 to 9 grants (0.36x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Shape

50
Shenzhen Guangyip…

50
Shinwa Controls

50
Sirrus

50
Snowie

50
Superior Communic…

50
Synergy Blue

50
TGK

50
Snaprays ◀

50

What this shows SnapRays holds 50 patents at rank #6,711, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SnapRays

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,711 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for SnapRays, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections), SnapRays ranks #149 of 2,265 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Valtech Cardio Ltd. 36 Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Wuerzburg 36 Tremco Incorporated 36 Nice-systems Ltd. 36

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.6 here).

Exelixis, Inc. 11.6 avg Johnson Controls, Inc. 11.6 avg Freni Brembo S.P.A. 11.6 avg Xencor, Inc. 11.6 avg

Snaprays's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 49% higher than 51% 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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SnapRays, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	6	12.0%
2018	9	18.0%
2019	14	28.0%
2020	7	14.0%
2021	4	8.0%
2022	3	6.0%
2023	1	2.0%
2024	5	10.0%
2025partial year	1	2.0%

Which technologies does SnapRays, LLC patent most?

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 22

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 19

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 10

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 9

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 9

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 9

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 9

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 8

F21L - Lighting Devices OR Systems Thereof, Being Portable OR Specially Adapted FOR Transportation 3

H02B - Boards, Substations OR Switching Arrangements FOR THE Supply OR Distribution OF Electric Power 3

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

Top 13 of 13 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

SnapRays, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

SnapRays, LLC's lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 44% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
Ranked #6,710 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SnapRays, LLC against Shape Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.7/100 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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