Where does Snow Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Snow Corporation ranks #16,373 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 Snow Corporation hold?

Snow Corporation holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Snow Corporation's Innovation Score?

Snow Corporation has an Innovation Score of 44.7 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Snow Corporation focus on?

Snow Corporation's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 10 patents, ranking #1,288 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Snow Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Snow Corporation's recent grant velocity is +1600% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Snow Corporation's patents?

Snow Corporation's patents average 16.5 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 Snow Corporation 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 Foreign Corporation

Snow Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Snow ranks #16,373 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 16 technology areas.

#16,373
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.7/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: +1600%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16373 · Foreign Corporation #16,373 · 18 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,373/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Silicon Motion…
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +1600% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Silicon Motion Technology (Hong Kong) Limited (±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 Snow’s 44.7 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 10.2 pts (23%) Velocity 10.5 pts (23%) Breadth 14.1 pts (32%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Snow · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Snow's Innovation Score is 44.7/100 (top 25% 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 Snow?

Each dot is one of Snow’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). Snow’s own 16.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Snow's grants concentrate

Snow Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 55.6% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Snow sits between Silicon Motion Technology (Hong Kong) Limited and Southern Spine, LLC.

Snow's three-year grant acceleration

Snow Corporation shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Silicon Motion Te…

18
Singlestore

18
Sitepro

18
Siya

18
Solar-tectic

18
Solus Advanced Ma…

18
Sonicsensory

18
Southern Spine

18
Snow ◀

18

What this shows Snow holds 18 patents at rank #16,384, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Snow

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,384 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Snow's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

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Snow Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	5.6%
2020	1	5.6%
2021	5	27.8%
2022	6	33.3%
2023	3	16.7%
2024	2	11.1%

Which technologies does Snow Corporation patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 10

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 1

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 1

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

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 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

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 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Snow Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Snow Corporation's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 55.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #16,373 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Snow Corporation against Silicon Motion Technology (Hong Kong) Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.7/100 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

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.