Where does Distance Technologies Oy rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Distance Technologies Oy ranks #15,959 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 Distance Technologies Oy hold?

Distance Technologies Oy holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2024 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Distance Technologies Oy's Innovation Score?

Distance Technologies Oy has an Innovation Score of 37.4 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Distance Technologies Oy focus on?

Distance Technologies Oy's top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 12 patents, ranking #964 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Distance Technologies Oy's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Distance Technologies Oy.

What does claim depth mean for Distance Technologies Oy's patents?

Distance Technologies Oy's patents average 17.7 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 Distance Technologies Oy 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

Distance Technologies Oy

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2024–2025. 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Distance ranks #15,959 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 8 technology areas.

#15,959
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.4/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15959 · Foreign Corporation #15,959 · 18 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #15,959/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Designer Ties
CPC-NARROW G02B · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2024–2025 · 2y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Designer Ties, LLC (±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 Distance’s 37.4 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 (27%) Velocity 6.7 pts (18%) Breadth 10.0 pts (27%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Distance Oy · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Distance's Innovation Score is 37.4/100 (top 44% 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 Distance?

Each dot is one of Distance’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). Distance’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 5.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Distance's grants concentrate

Distance Technologies Oy is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). By volume, Distance sits between Designer Ties, LLC and Dongguan Zhengyang Electronic Mechanical Co. Ltd..

Distance's three-year grant acceleration

Distance Technologies Oy shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Designer Ties

18
Deuterx

18
Diageo North Amer…

18
Direct Supply

18
Dixie Consumer Pr…

18
Domtar Paper

18
Dong Guan Bright…

18
Dongguan Zhengyan…

18
Distance Oy ◀

18

What this shows Distance holds 18 patents at rank #15,962, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Distance

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,962 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Distance's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2024–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2024–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Distance Technologies Oy patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2024	1	5.6%
2025partial year	17	94.4%

Which technologies does Distance Technologies Oy patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 12

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 3

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Distance Technologies Oy's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Distance Technologies Oy's lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #15,959 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Distance Technologies Oy against Designer Ties, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.4/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.