Where does Axts, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Axts, Inc. ranks #15,844 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 Axts, Inc. hold?

Axts, Inc. holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Axts, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Axts, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 49.4 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Axts, Inc.'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 Axts, Inc.'s patents?

Axts, Inc.'s patents average 21.8 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 Axts, 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

Axts, Inc.

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

Axts, Inc.'s top technology area is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance) with 14 patents, ranking #35 of 374 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Axts ranks #15,844 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 3 technology areas.

#15,844
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.4/100): 21.8
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15844 · US Corporation #15,844 · 18 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #15,844/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Abide Therapeutics
CPC-NARROW F41A · 3 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Abide Therapeutics, 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 Axts’s 49.4 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 10.2 pts (21%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 6.1 pts (12%) Claim depth 13.1 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Axts · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Axts's Innovation Score is 49.4/100 (top 15% 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 Axts?

Each dot is one of Axts’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). Axts’s own 21.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Axts's grants concentrate

Axts, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 77.8% of grants classified under F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Axts sits between Atheromed, Inc. and Actuated Medical, Inc..

Axts's three-year grant acceleration

Axts, Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Atheromed

18
Audio Pixels

18
Aurora Innovation

18
Axiomatics AB

18
Abide Therapeutics

18
Academisch Zieken…

18
Accordant Energy

18
Actuated Medical

18
Axts ◀

18

What this shows Axts holds 18 patents at rank #15,810, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Axts

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,810 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…)

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

Axts's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Axts, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	5.6%
2018	3	16.7%
2019	2	11.1%
2022	2	11.1%
2023	1	5.6%
2024	3	16.7%
2025partial year	6	33.3%

Which technologies does Axts, Inc. patent most?

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 14

F41C - Smallarms, e.g. Pistols, Rifles ; Accessories Therefor 7

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 7

Top 3 of 3 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

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

Axts, Inc.'s lead technology class is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance), 77.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41A
Ranked #15,844 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Axts, Inc. against Atheromed, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.4/100 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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