Where does Agency FOR Defense Development rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Agency FOR Defense Development ranks #1,765 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 Agency FOR Defense Development hold?

Agency FOR Defense Development holds 230 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 124 technology areas.

What is Agency FOR Defense Development's Innovation Score?

Agency FOR Defense Development has an Innovation Score of 61.2 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Agency FOR Defense Development's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Agency FOR Defense Development's recent grant velocity is +24% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Agency FOR Defense Development's patents?

Agency FOR Defense Development's patents average 10.7 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 Agency FOR Defense Development 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 Foreign Corporation

Agency FOR Defense Development

Q: What technology areas does Agency FOR Defense Development focus on?

Agency FOR Defense Development's top technology area is 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) with 38 patents, ranking #168 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 124 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 230 granted patents across 124 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Agency ranks #1,765 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 230 patents across 124 technology areas.

#1,765
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.2/100): 10.7
avg claims per patent: +24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1765 · Foreign Corporation #1,765 · 230 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 230 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,765/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH American Megatrends
CPC-WIDE G01S · 124 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: American Megatrends, 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 Agency’s 61.2 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 18.8 pts (31%) Velocity 11.0 pts (18%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 6.4 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
TE Connectivity… · near

61
Agency FOR Defense… · this assignee

61
Monolithic 3D · near

61
Rakuten Symphony · near

61
The Yokohama Rubber · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Agency's Innovation Score is 61.2/100 (top 3% 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 Agency?

Each dot is one of Agency’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). Agency’s own 10.7 claims/patent is at or below the 15.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Agency's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Agency FOR Defense Development received 113 grants versus 91 in 2015–2019 (+24% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 30 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 14. Lead class G01S accounts for 16.5% of the portfolio across 124 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Koninklijke KPN N.V. (#1,761) and Kemira OYJ (#1,769).

Agency's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Agency FOR Defense Development moved from 49 to 81 grants (1.65x 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 #342. See the growth leaderboard.

Koninklijke KPN

231
Nite Ize

231
SMA Solar Technol…

231
THK

231
American Megatren…

230
Autel Intelligent…

230
Hefei BOE Joint T…

230
Kemira OYJ

230
Agency FOR Defens… ◀

230

What this shows Agency holds 230 patents at rank #1,765, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Agency

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,765 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Agency, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01S (Radio Direction-finding), Agency ranks #168 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Monolithic 3D Inc. 61 The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. 61 Rakuten Symphony, Inc. 61 TE Connectivity Services GMBH 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.7 here).

Metal Industries Research & Development Centre 10.7 avg National Chung Cheng University 10.7 avg Ring Container Technologies, LLC 10.7 avg Kyoto University 10.7 avg

Agency's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Agency FOR Defense Development patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	26	11.3%
2016	16	7.0%
2017	17	7.4%
2018	15	6.5%
2019	17	7.4%
2020	18	7.8%
2021	14	6.1%
2022	22	9.6%
2023	30	13.0%
2024	29	12.6%
2025partial year	26	11.3%

Which technologies does Agency FOR Defense Development patent most?

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 38

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 27

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 19

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 17

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 13

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 12

H04K - Secret COMMUNICATION; Jamming OF Communication 11

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 11

H04B - Transmission 11

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 9

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 8

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 8

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 8

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 8

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 8

Top 15 of 124 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

Agency FOR Defense Development's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Agency FOR Defense Development's lead technology class is 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 Arra), 16.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #1,765 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Agency FOR Defense Development against Koninklijke KPN N.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.2/100 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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