Where does Apator Miitors APS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Apator Miitors APS ranks #11,915 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 Apator Miitors APS hold?

Apator Miitors APS holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Apator Miitors APS's Innovation Score?

Apator Miitors APS has an Innovation Score of 36.4 out of 100 (top 47% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Apator Miitors APS focus on?

Apator Miitors APS's top technology area is G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume) with 22 patents, ranking #34 of 1,205 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Apator Miitors APS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Apator Miitors APS's recent grant velocity is -44% 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 Apator Miitors APS's patents?

Apator Miitors APS's patents average 18.1 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 Apator Miitors APS 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

Apator Miitors APS

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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: G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Apator ranks #11,915 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 14 technology areas.

#11,915
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.4/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: -44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11915 · Foreign Corporation #11,915 · 25 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #11,915/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alcon Lensx
CPC-FOCUS G01F · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alcon Lensx, 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 Apator’s 36.4 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 11.3 pts (31%) Velocity 1.0 pts (3%) Breadth 13.2 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Avails Medical · near

36
Kount · near

36
Aerohive Networks · near

36
Apator Miitors APS · this assignee

36
Bitmain · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Apator's Innovation Score is 36.4/100 (top 47% 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 Apator?

Each dot is one of Apator’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). Apator’s own 18.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Apator's grants concentrate

Apator Miitors APS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 88% of grants classified under G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Apator sits between Alcon Lensx, Inc. and Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd..

Apator's three-year grant acceleration

Apator Miitors APS shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Alcon Lensx

25
Alere SAN Diego

25
Alexza Pharmaceut…

25
Alza

25
Apex Industrial

25
Apex Microelectro…

25
API Intellectual…

25
Arakawa Chemical…

25
Apator Miitors APS ◀

25

What this shows Apator holds 25 patents at rank #11,900, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Apator

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,900 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01F (Measuring Volume)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Apator, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01F (Measuring Volume), Apator ranks #34 of 1,205 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Bitmain Technologies Inc. 36 Aerohive Networks, Inc. 36 Avails Medical, Inc. 36 Kount Inc. 36

Apator's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 47% higher than 53% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Apator Miitors APS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	8.0%
2017	3	12.0%
2018	5	20.0%
2019	6	24.0%
2020	7	28.0%
2022	1	4.0%
2023	1	4.0%

Which technologies does Apator Miitors APS patent most?

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 22

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 3

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 3

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 2

F15D - Fluid Dynamics, i.e. Methods OR Means FOR Influencing THE Flow OF Gases OR Liquids 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 1

H04B - Transmission 1

H04Q - Selecting 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Apator Miitors APS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Apator Miitors APS's lead technology class is G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume), 88% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01F
Ranked #11,915 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Apator Miitors APS against Alcon Lensx, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.4/100 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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