Where does Social Communications Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Social Communications Company ranks #25,246 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 Social Communications Company hold?

Social Communications Company holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2016, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Social Communications Company's Innovation Score?

Social Communications Company has an Innovation Score of 32.9 out of 100 (top 57% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Social Communications Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Social Communications Company's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Social Communications Company's patents?

Social Communications Company's patents average 28.7 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 Social Communications Company 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

Social Communications Company

Q: What technology areas does Social Communications Company focus on?

Social Communications Company's top technology area is H04L (TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION) with 11 patents. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2016. 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: H04L (TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Social ranks #25,246 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 7 technology areas.

#25,246
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 57%
by Innovation Score (32.9/100): 28.7
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25246 · US Corporation #25,246 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #25,246/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Skeyeon
CPC-NARROW H04L · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 28.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Skeyeon, Inc. (±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
Social Communications · this assignee

33
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Social's Innovation Score is 32.9/100 (top 57% 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 Social's grants concentrate

Social Communications Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H04L (TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (8 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2016. By volume, Social sits between Skeyeon, Inc. and Solid Power Operating, Inc..

Skeyeon

11
Slash Next

11
Smartear

11
Smoltek AB

11
Sociedade Benefic…

11
Softlayer

11
Soin Neuroscience

11
Solid Power Opera…

11
Social Communicat… ◀

11

What this shows Social holds 11 patents at rank #25,273, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Social

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,273 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Social's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 Top 57% higher than 43% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2016

Grants by year

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

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Social Communications Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	72.7%
2016	3	27.3%

Which technologies does Social Communications Company patent most?

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 11

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 9

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 4

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 3

H04M - TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION 3

H04W - WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 2

A63F - CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

Top 7 of 7 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#25,246

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

32.9 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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