Where does Austin Star Detonator Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Austin Star Detonator Company ranks #22,229 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 Austin Star Detonator Company hold?

Austin Star Detonator Company holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Austin Star Detonator Company's Innovation Score?

Austin Star Detonator Company has an Innovation Score of 33.3 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Austin Star Detonator Company focus on?

Austin Star Detonator Company's top technology area is F42D (Blasting) with 11 patents, ranking #9 of 83 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Is Austin Star Detonator Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Austin Star Detonator Company's recent grant velocity is +0% 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 Austin Star Detonator Company's patents?

Austin Star Detonator Company's patents average 15.7 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 Austin Star Detonator Company 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

Austin Star Detonator Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. 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: F42D (Blasting).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Austin ranks #22,229 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 11 technology areas.

#22,229
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.3/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22229 · US Corporation #22,229 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,229/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Atmosic
CPC-FOCUS F42D · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Atmosic Technologies, 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 Austin’s 33.3 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 8.9 pts (27%) Velocity 3.3 pts (10%) Breadth 11.7 pts (35%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
NuoDB · near

33
POE Lang Enterprise · near

33
Austin Star Detonator · this assignee

33
Toptica Photonics · near

33
Wave Computing · near

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Austin's Innovation Score is 33.3/100 (44th percentile 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 Austin?

Each dot is one of Austin’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). Austin’s own 15.7 claims/patent is at or below the 16.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Austin's grants concentrate

Austin Star Detonator Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 91.7% of grants classified under F42D (Blasting). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Austin sits between Atmosic Technologies, Inc. and Aytu BioScience, Inc..

Austin's three-year grant acceleration

Austin Star Detonator Company shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Atmosic

12
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12
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12
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12
Axway

12
Aytu Bioscience

12
Austin Star Deton… ◀

12

What this shows Austin holds 12 patents at rank #22,234, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Austin

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,234 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F42D (Blasting)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Austin, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F42D (Blasting), Austin ranks #9 of 83 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

Toptica Photonics, Inc. 33 Wave Computing, Inc. 33 NuoDB, Inc. 33 POE Lang Enterprise Co., Ltd. 33

Austin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Austin Star Detonator Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	3	25.0%
2019	3	25.0%
2021	3	25.0%
2022	1	8.3%
2023	1	8.3%
2024	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Austin Star Detonator Company patent most?

F42D - Blasting 11

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 3

F23Q - Ignition ; Extinguishing-devices 2

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 2

F42C - Ammunition Fuzes ; Arming OR Safety Means Therefor 2

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 1

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

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Austin Star Detonator Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Austin Star Detonator Company's lead technology class is F42D (Blasting), 91.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F42D
Ranked #22,229 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Austin Star Detonator Company against Atmosic Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.3/100 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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