Where does Urban Airship, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Urban Airship, Inc. ranks #12,746 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 Urban Airship, Inc. hold?

Urban Airship, Inc. holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Urban Airship, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Urban Airship, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 30.5 out of 100 (35th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Urban Airship, Inc. focus on?

Urban Airship, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 20 patents, ranking #1,367 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

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

Urban Airship, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Urban Airship, Inc.'s patents?

Urban Airship, 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 Urban Airship, 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

Urban Airship, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 4 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Urban ranks #12,746 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 4 technology areas.

#12,746
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 35th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.5/100): 20.5
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12746 · US Corporation #12,746 · 24 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,746/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH University College…
CPC-NARROW H04L · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: University College Dublin (±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 Urban’s 30.5 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 11.1 pts (36%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 7.1 pts (23%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (40%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Urban Airship · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Urban's Innovation Score is 30.5/100 (35th 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 Urban?

Each dot is one of Urban’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). Urban’s own 20.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Urban's grants concentrate

Urban Airship, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Urban sits between University College Dublin and Virbac.

University Colleg…

24
University of Cen…

24
University of Mon…

24
University of Nor…

24
Valeritas

24
Venuenext

24
Veridium IP

24
Virbac

24
Urban Airship ◀

24

What this shows Urban holds 24 patents at rank #12,746, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Urban

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,746 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Urban's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 35th percentile higher than 35% 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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Urban Airship, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	8.3%
2016	5	20.8%
2017	3	12.5%
2018	4	16.7%
2019	2	8.3%
2020	8	33.3%

Which technologies does Urban Airship, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 20

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 13

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 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 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

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

Urban Airship, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #12,746 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Urban Airship, Inc. against University College Dublin, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.5/100 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.