Where does Universal City Studios LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Universal City Studios LLC ranks #985 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 Universal City Studios LLC hold?

Universal City Studios LLC holds 447 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 134 technology areas.

What is Universal City Studios LLC's Innovation Score?

Universal City Studios LLC has an Innovation Score of 65.7 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Universal City Studios LLC focus on?

Universal City Studios LLC's top technology area is A63G (MERRY-GO-ROUNDS; SWINGS; ROCKING-HORSES; CHUTES; SWITCHBACKS; Similar Devices FOR Public Amusement) with 295 patents, ranking #1 of 109 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 134 CPC subclasses total.

Is Universal City Studios LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Universal City Studios LLC's recent grant velocity is +244% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Universal City Studios LLC's patents?

Universal City Studios LLC's patents average 19.4 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.

How is the Universal City Studios 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

Universal City Studios LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 447 granted patents across 134 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: A63G (MERRY-GO-ROUNDS; SWINGS; ROCKING-HORSES; CHUTES; SWITCHBACKS; Similar Devices FOR Public Amusement).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Universal ranks #985 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 447 patents across 134 technology areas.

#985
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.7/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: +244%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R985 · US Corporation #985 · 447 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 447 grants
TOP-DECILE #985/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ecole Polytechnique…
CPC-WIDE A63G · 134 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +244% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL) (±1 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 Universal’s 65.7 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 21.1 pts (32%) Velocity 8.0 pts (12%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chevron U · near

66
AMS International · near

66
Shanghai University · near

66
Universal City Studios · this assignee

66
Evonik Operations · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Universal's Innovation Score is 65.7/100 (top 1% 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 Universal?

Each dot is one of Universal’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). Universal’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Universal's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Universal City Studios LLC received 306 grants versus 89 in 2015–2019 (+244% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 73 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 2. Lead class A63G accounts for 66% of the portfolio across 134 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Richtek Technology Corporation (#981) and The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (#989).

Universal's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Universal City Studios LLC moved from 159 to 190 grants (1.20x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #789. See the growth leaderboard.

Richtek Technology

448
Schneider Electri…

448
Wacker Chemie

448
Yanmar Holdings

448
Universal City St… ◀

447
Ecole Polytechniq…

446
RAI Strategic Hol…

446
Spectrum Diversif…

446
The Charles Stark…

446

What this shows Universal holds 447 patents at rank #985, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Universal

By rank, the assignees closest to #985 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63G (Merry-go-rounds)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Universal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A63G (Merry-go-rounds), Universal ranks #1 of 109 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Shanghai University 66 AMS International AG 66 Evonik Operations GmbH 66 Chevron U.S.A. Inc. 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Celgene Corporation 19.4 avg AT&T Mobility II LLC 19.4 avg Afero, Inc. 19.4 avg Cardio Flow, Inc. 19.4 avg

Universal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Universal City Studios LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	0.4%
2016	12	2.7%
2017	11	2.5%
2018	21	4.7%
2019	43	9.6%
2020	63	14.1%
2021	53	11.9%
2022	56	12.5%
2023	73	16.3%
2024	61	13.6%
2025partial year	52	11.6%

Which technologies does Universal City Studios LLC patent most?

A63G - MERRY-GO-ROUNDS; SWINGS; ROCKING-HORSES; CHUTES; SWITCHBACKS; Similar Devices FOR Public Amusement 295

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 133

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 92

A63J - Devices FOR Theatres, Circuses, OR THE LIKE; Conjuring Appliances OR THE Like 61

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 61

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 53

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 52

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 48

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 28

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 28

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 22

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 21

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 20

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 20

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 19

Top 15 of 134 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

Universal City Studios LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Universal City Studios LLC's lead technology class is A63G (MERRY-GO-ROUNDS; SWINGS; ROCKING-HORSES; CHUTES; SWITCHBACKS; Similar Devices FOR Public Amusement), 66% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63G
Ranked #985 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Universal City Studios LLC against Richtek Technology Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.7/100 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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