Where does Stern Pinball, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Stern Pinball, Inc. ranks #15,652 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 Stern Pinball, Inc. hold?

Stern Pinball, Inc. holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Stern Pinball, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Stern Pinball, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 32.7 out of 100 (42nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Stern Pinball, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Stern Pinball, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +140% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Stern Pinball, Inc.'s patents?

Stern Pinball, Inc.'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 Stern Pinball, 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

Stern Pinball, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Stern Pinball, Inc. focus on?

Stern Pinball, Inc.'s top technology area is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 16 patents, ranking #99 of 894 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 4 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: A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Stern ranks #15,652 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 4 technology areas.

#15,652
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 42nd percentile
by Innovation Score (32.7/100): 10.7
avg claims per patent: +140%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15652 · US Corporation #15,652 · 19 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,652/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Spidercloud Wireless
CPC-NARROW A63F · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +140% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Spidercloud Wireless, 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.

How Stern’s 32.7 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 10.3 pts (31%) Velocity 8.9 pts (27%) Breadth 7.1 pts (22%) Claim depth 6.4 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Stern Pinball · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stern's Innovation Score is 32.7/100 (42nd 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 Stern?

Each dot is one of Stern’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). Stern’s own 10.7 claims/patent is at or below the 20.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Stern's grants concentrate

Stern Pinball, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 84.2% of grants classified under A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Stern sits between Spidercloud Wireless, Inc. and Subsurface, Inc..

Stern's three-year grant acceleration

Stern Pinball, Inc. shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Spidercloud Wirel…

19
Spirent Communica…

19
Stem

19
Stemcentrx

19
Stout Stuff

19
Stratokey Pty

19
Strava

19
Subsurface

19
Stern Pinball ◀

19

What this shows Stern holds 19 patents at rank #15,655, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Stern

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,655 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63F (Card)

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

Stern's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 42nd percentile higher than 42% 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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Stern Pinball, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	3	15.8%
2019	2	10.5%
2020	2	10.5%
2021	2	10.5%
2022	1	5.3%
2023	3	15.8%
2024	4	21.1%
2025partial year	2	10.5%

Which technologies does Stern Pinball, Inc. patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 16

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 3

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 1

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

Top 4 of 4 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

Stern Pinball, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Stern Pinball, Inc.'s lead technology class is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 84.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #15,652 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Stern Pinball, Inc. against Spidercloud Wireless, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.7/100 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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