Where does YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC ranks #4,314 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 YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC hold?

YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC holds 83 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC's Innovation Score?

YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC has an Innovation Score of 40.5 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC's recent grant velocity is -99% 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 YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC's patents?

YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC's patents average 19.2 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 YELLOWPAGES.COM 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

YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC

Q: What technology areas does YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC focus on?

YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC's top technology area is 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) with 63 patents. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 83 granted patents across 15 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Yellowpages.com ranks #4,314 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 83 patents across 15 technology areas.

#4,314
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.5/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4314 · US Corporation #4,314 · 83 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 83 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,314/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH UIF (University…
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Azurewave · near

40
Cynosure · near

40
Ming Shin Tools · near

40
Samsung Techwin · near

40
YELLOWPAGES COM · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Yellowpages.com's Innovation Score is 40.5/100 (top 35% 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.

Where Yellowpages.com's grants concentrate

YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 75.9% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (35 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Yellowpages.com sits between UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University and Andersen Corporation.

UIF (University I…

83
University OF Nor…

83
Vonage Business

83
Winston Products

83
Yellowpages COM ◀

83
Acucela

82
Appleton GRP

82
Airoha Technology

82
Andersen

82

What this shows YELLOWPAGES.COM holds 83 patents at rank #4,314, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near YELLOWPAGESCOM

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,314 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for YELLOWPAGESCOM, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Samsung Techwin Co., Ltd. 40 Cynosure, LLC 40 Azurewave Technologies, Inc. 40 Ming Shin Tools Co., Ltd. 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.2 here).

Loon LLC 19.2 avg BGC Partners, Inc. 19.2 avg Technological Resources PTY Limited 19.2 avg Thermwood Corporation 19.2 avg

Yellowpages.com's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 35% higher than 65% 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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YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	35	42.2%
2016	17	20.5%
2017	11	13.3%
2018	10	12.0%
2019	9	10.8%
2020	1	1.2%

Which technologies does YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC patent most?

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 63

H04M - Telephonic Communication 43

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 35

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 20

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 11

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 2

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 1

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

H04Q - Selecting 1

Top 15 of 15 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,314

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

40.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC's lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 75.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #4,314 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC against UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.5/100 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

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