Where does Understory, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Understory, Inc. ranks #19,300 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 Understory, Inc. hold?

Understory, Inc. holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Understory, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Understory, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.5 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Understory, Inc. focus on?

Understory, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 9 patents, ranking #3,920 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

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

Understory, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -56% 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 Understory, Inc.'s patents?

Understory, Inc.'s patents average 20.5 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 Understory, 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

Understory, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 10 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Understory ranks #19,300 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 10 technology areas.

#19,300
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.5/100): 20.5
avg claims per patent: -56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19300 · US Corporation #19,300 · 15 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #19,300/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ubiquitous Energy
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ubiquitous Energy, 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 Understory’s 37.5 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 9.6 pts (26%) Velocity 4.4 pts (12%) Breadth 11.2 pts (30%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
FMC DO Brasil Ltda · near

38
BioSig · near

38
P4tents1 · near

38
Rotation Medical · near

38
Understory · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Understory's Innovation Score is 37.5/100 (top 43% 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 Understory?

Each dot is one of Understory’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). Understory’s own 20.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Understory's grants concentrate

Understory, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Understory sits between UVeye Ltd. and University of Notre Dame.

Understory's three-year grant acceleration

Understory, Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Uveye

15
Ubiquitous Energy

15
Unchained Labs

15
Under the Weather

15
Union Tank Car

15
United Constructi…

15
University of Nor…

15
University of Not…

15
Understory ◀

15

What this shows Understory holds 15 patents at rank #19,303, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Understory

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,303 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Understory, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Understory ranks #3,920 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

BioSig Technologies, Inc. 38 P4tents1 LLC 38 Rotation Medical, Inc. 38 FMC Technologies DO Brasil Ltda 38

Understory's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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.

View data table

Understory, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	13.3%
2018	6	40.0%
2019	1	6.7%
2020	2	13.3%
2022	1	6.7%
2024	1	6.7%
2025partial year	2	13.3%

Which technologies does Understory, Inc. patent most?

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 9

G01W - Meteorology 6

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 5

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 5

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

G01H - Measurement OF Mechanical Vibrations OR Ultrasonic, Sonic OR Infrasonic Waves 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Understory, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #19,300 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Understory, Inc. against UVeye Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.