Where does Zonar Systems, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zonar Systems, Inc. ranks #5,732 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 Zonar Systems, Inc. hold?

Zonar Systems, Inc. holds 60 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Zonar Systems, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Zonar Systems, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.4 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Zonar Systems, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -54% 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 Zonar Systems, Inc.'s patents?

Zonar Systems, Inc.'s patents average 16.1 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 Zonar Systems, 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

Zonar Systems, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Zonar Systems, Inc. focus on?

Zonar Systems, Inc.'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 28 patents, ranking #487 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 60 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Zonar ranks #5,732 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 60 patents across 23 technology areas.

#5,732
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.4/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: -54%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5732 · US Corporation #5,732 · 60 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 60 grants
UPPER-Q #5,732/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH [24]7 ai
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -54% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: [24]7.ai, 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 Zonar’s 43.4 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 14.2 pts (33%) Velocity 2.6 pts (6%) Breadth 17.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
DMF · near

43
Manitowoc Crane… · near

43
Ondal Medical Systems · near

43
Zonar Systems · this assignee

43
The 41st Parameter · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Zonar's Innovation Score is 43.4/100 (top 28% 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 Zonar?

Each dot is one of Zonar’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). Zonar’s own 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Zonar's grants concentrate

Zonar Systems, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 46.7% 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 2019 (13 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Zonar sits between Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Arcturus Therapeutics, Inc..

Zonar's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Zonar Systems, Inc. moved from 23 to 9 grants (0.39x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Woods Hole Oceano…

60
Workhorse Group

60
Wyatt Technology

60
Zhejiang Prulde E…

60
[24]7 ai

60
mophie

60
Zonar Systems ◀

60
Alaxala Networks

59
Arcturus Therapeu…

59

What this shows Zonar holds 60 patents at rank #5,730, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Zonar

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,730 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Zonar, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Zonar ranks #487 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Manitowoc Crane Companies, LLC 43 DMF, Inc. 43 Ondal Medical Systems GMBH 43 The 41st Parameter, Inc. 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.1 here).

UWM Research Foundation, Inc. 16.1 avg Zealand Pharma A/S 16.1 avg Innovative Sonic Corporation 16.1 avg Molecular Imprints, Inc. 16.1 avg

Zonar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Zonar Systems, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	3.3%
2016	10	16.7%
2017	8	13.3%
2018	8	13.3%
2019	13	21.7%
2020	8	13.3%
2021	2	3.3%
2022	5	8.3%
2024	4	6.7%

Which technologies does Zonar Systems, Inc. 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 28

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 28

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 26

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 14

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 14

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 14

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 12

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 9

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 7

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 7

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 7

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 6

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 5

Top 15 of 23 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

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

Zonar Systems, Inc.'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,), 46.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #5,732 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Zonar Systems, Inc. against Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.4/100 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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