Where does Stages LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Stages LLC ranks #23,459 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 Stages LLC hold?

Stages LLC holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Stages LLC's Innovation Score?

Stages LLC has an Innovation Score of 34.6 out of 100 (48th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Stages LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Stages LLC's recent grant velocity is +0% 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 Stages LLC's patents?

Stages LLC's patents average 10.7 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 Stages 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

Stages LLC

Q: What technology areas does Stages LLC focus on?

Stages LLC's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 12 patents, ranking #223 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 7 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: H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Stages ranks #23,459 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 7 technology areas.

#23,459
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 48th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.6/100): 10.7
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23459 · US Corporation #23,459 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,459/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SPY EYE
CPC-NARROW H04R · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SPY EYE, LLC (±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 Stages’s 34.6 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 8.9 pts (26%) Velocity 10.0 pts (29%) Breadth 9.4 pts (27%) Claim depth 6.4 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Stages · this assignee

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stages's Innovation Score is 34.6/100 (48th percentile 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 Stages?

Each dot is one of Stages’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). Stages’s own 10.7 claims/patent is at or below the 19.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Stages's grants concentrate

Stages LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Stages sits between SPY EYE, LLC and Stereyo BV.

Stages's three-year grant acceleration

Stages LLC shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

SPY EYE

12
SR Systems

12
Ssimwave

12
ST John's Univers…

12
Stallergenes

12
Standard Microsys…

12
Stats (UK)

12
Stereyo BV

12
Stages ◀

12

What this shows Stages holds 12 patents at rank #23,391, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Stages

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,391 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Stages's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 48th percentile higher than 48% 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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Stages LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	3	25.0%
2018	2	16.7%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	1	8.3%
2022	1	8.3%
2023	2	16.7%
2025partial year	2	16.7%

Which technologies does Stages LLC patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 12

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 6

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 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 7 of 7 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

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

Stages LLC's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #23,459 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Stages LLC against SPY EYE, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.6/100 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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