Where does Switch, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Switch, Ltd. ranks #6,847 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 Switch, Ltd. hold?

Switch, Ltd. holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Switch, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Switch, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 47.6 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Switch, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Switch, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +44% 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 Switch, Ltd.'s patents?

Switch, Ltd.'s patents average 16.3 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 Switch, Ltd. 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

Switch, Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Switch, Ltd. focus on?

Switch, Ltd.'s top technology area is H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components) with 32 patents, ranking #230 of 3,545 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Switch ranks #6,847 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 17 technology areas.

#6,847
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.6/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: +44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6847 · US Corporation #6,847 · 49 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,847/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Safariland
CPC-FOCUS H05K · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Safariland, 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 Switch’s 47.6 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 13.5 pts (28%) Velocity 9.7 pts (20%) Breadth 14.6 pts (31%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Belenos Clean Power… · near

48
Bracco Suisse · near

48
Haldex Brake… · near

48
NeuroWave Systems · near

48
Switch · this assignee

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Switch's Innovation Score is 47.6/100 (top 18% 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 Switch?

Each dot is one of Switch’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). Switch’s own 16.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Switch's grants concentrate

Switch, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 65.3% of grants classified under H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Switch sits between Seegene, Inc. and SenoRx, Inc..

Switch's three-year grant acceleration

Switch, Ltd. shows 19 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Seegene

49
SKF Magnetic Mech…

49
Standard Cognition

49
Stmicroelectronic…

49
Safariland

49
Safran Landing Sy…

49
Samsung Dispiay

49
Senorx

49
Switch ◀

49

What this shows Switch holds 49 patents at rank #6,838, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Switch

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,838 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05K (Printed Circuits)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Switch, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05K (Printed Circuits), Switch ranks #230 of 3,545 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Belenos Clean Power Holding AG 48 Bracco Suisse SA 48 NeuroWave Systems Inc. 48 Haldex Brake Products AB 48

Switch's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Switch, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.1%
2017	6	12.2%
2018	4	8.2%
2019	6	12.2%
2020	3	6.1%
2021	4	8.2%
2022	8	16.3%
2023	6	12.2%
2024	5	10.2%
2025partial year	5	10.2%

Which technologies does Switch, Ltd. patent most?

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 32

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 16

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 9

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 4

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 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 2

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 2

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 2

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 1

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

E04D - Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 1

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 1

Top 15 of 17 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Switch, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Switch, Ltd.'s lead technology class is H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components), 65.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05K
Ranked #6,847 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Switch, Ltd. against Seegene, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.6/100 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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