Where does AIC Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), AIC Inc. ranks #8,152 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 AIC Inc. hold?

AIC Inc. holds 39 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is AIC Inc.'s Innovation Score?

AIC Inc. has an Innovation Score of 36.6 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is AIC Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

AIC Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -69% 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 AIC Inc.'s patents?

AIC Inc.'s patents average 10.1 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 AIC 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 Foreign Corporation

AIC Inc.

Q: What technology areas does AIC Inc. focus on?

AIC Inc.'s top technology area is H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components) with 22 patents, ranking #301 of 3,545 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 39 granted patents across 20 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: H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, AIC ranks #8,152 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 39 patents across 20 technology areas.

#8,152
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.6/100): 10.1
avg claims per patent: -69%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8152 · Foreign Corporation #8,152 · 39 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 39 grants
UPPER-Q #8,152/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Airbus
CPC-FOCUS H05K · 20 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -69% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Airbus (±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 AIC’s 36.6 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 12.7 pts (35%) Velocity 2.0 pts (5%) Breadth 15.8 pts (43%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AIC · this assignee

37
Bionomics · near

37
Guill Tool &… · near

37
Kenvue Brands · near

37
Zest IP Holdings · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows AIC's Innovation Score is 36.6/100 (top 46% 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 AIC?

Each dot is one of AIC’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). AIC’s own 10.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where AIC's grants concentrate

AIC Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 56.4% of grants classified under H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, AIC sits between Zing Semiconductor Corporation and Atomic Energy OF Canada Limited.

AIC's three-year grant acceleration

AIC Inc. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Zing Semiconductor

40
Zygo

40
iottie

40
nchain Holdings

40
Airbus

39
Aisin Takaoka

39
Asahi Yukizai

39
Atomic Energy OF…

39
AIC ◀

39

What this shows AIC holds 39 patents at rank #8,152, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near AIC

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,152 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05K (Printed Circuits)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for AIC, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05K (Printed Circuits), AIC ranks #301 of 3,545 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Guill Tool & Engineering Co., Inc. 37 Bionomics Limited 37 Zest IP Holdings, LLC 37 Kenvue Brands LLC 37

AIC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% 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.

View data table

AIC Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	20.5%
2016	10	25.6%
2017	3	7.7%
2018	4	10.3%
2019	4	10.3%
2020	4	10.3%
2021	2	5.1%
2022	2	5.1%
2023	1	2.6%
2025partial year	1	2.6%

Which technologies does AIC Inc. patent most?

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 22

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 21

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 14

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 4

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 2

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 2

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 2

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

Top 15 of 20 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

AIC Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

AIC Inc.'s lead technology class is H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components), 56.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05K
Ranked #8,152 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare AIC Inc. against Zing Semiconductor Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.6/100 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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