Where does Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company ranks #3,514 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company's Innovation Score?

Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company has an Innovation Score of 38.3 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company focus on?

Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 72 patents, ranking #712 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company's recent grant velocity is -98% 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 Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company's patents?

Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company's patents average 20.4 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company

Q: How many patents does Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company hold?

Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company holds 105 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 8 technology areas.

Q: How is the Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited 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 PatentsView assignee record - 105 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Thomson ranks #3,514 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 105 patents across 8 technology areas.

#3,514
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.3/100): 20.4
avg claims per patent: -98%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3514 · Foreign Corporation #3,514 · 105 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 105 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,514/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Spirent Communications
CPC-NARROW G06F · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -98% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Spirent Communications, 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 Thomson’s 38.3 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 16.1 pts (42%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.0 pts (26%) Claim depth 12.2 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Avenu Medical · near

38
PerkinElmer Health… · near

38
Reliance Controls · near

38
Sensoriant · near

38
Thomson Reuters… · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Thomson's Innovation Score is 38.3/100 (top 41% 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 Thomson?

Each dot is one of Thomson’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). Thomson’s own 20.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Thomson's grants concentrate

Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 68.6% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (30 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2020. By volume, Thomson sits between Spirent Communications, Inc. and Versitech Limited.

Spirent Communica…

105
Teledyne Scientif…

105
Tianma Japan

105
The Translational…

105
University of Mar…

105
Varex Imaging

105
Valencell

105
Versitech

105
Thomson Reuters G… ◀

105

What this shows Thomson holds 105 patents at rank #3,515, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Thomson

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,515 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Thomson, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Thomson ranks #712 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Avenu Medical, Inc. 38 Sensoriant, Inc. 38 PerkinElmer Health Sciences Canada, Inc. 38 Reliance Controls Corporation 38

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.4 here).

Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc. 20.4 avg Danco, Inc. 20.4 avg Andrew Wireless Systems GmbH 20.4 avg Lookout, Inc. 20.4 avg

Thomson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	16.2%
2016	23	21.9%
2017	30	28.6%
2018	19	18.1%
2019	14	13.3%
2020	2	1.9%

Which technologies does Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 72

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 52

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 14

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 6

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 4

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 68.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #3,514 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company against Spirent Communications, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.3/100 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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