Where does Garmin Switzerland GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Garmin Switzerland GmbH ranks #1,540 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 Garmin Switzerland GmbH hold?

Garmin Switzerland GmbH holds 270 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 64 technology areas.

What is Garmin Switzerland GmbH's Innovation Score?

Garmin Switzerland GmbH has an Innovation Score of 54.1 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Garmin Switzerland GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Garmin Switzerland GmbH's recent grant velocity is -30% 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 Garmin Switzerland GmbH's patents?

Garmin Switzerland GmbH's patents average 10.8 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 Garmin Switzerland GmbH 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

Garmin Switzerland GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Garmin Switzerland GmbH focus on?

Garmin Switzerland GmbH's top technology area is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves) with 59 patents. Grants appear in 64 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 270 granted patents across 64 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: G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Garmin ranks #1,540 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 270 patents across 64 technology areas.

#1,540
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.1/100): 10.8
avg claims per patent: -30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1540 · Foreign Corporation #1,540 · 270 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 270 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,540/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Colorado State…
CPC-WIDE G01S · 64 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Colorado State University Research Foundation (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amogreentech · near

54
Balluff · near

54
Garmin Switzerland · this assignee

54
Ninebot (CHANGZHOU)… · near

54
Tufts University · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Garmin's Innovation Score is 54.1/100 (top 8% 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.

How Garmin's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Garmin Switzerland GmbH received 110 grants versus 158 in 2015–2019 (-30% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 44 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 11. Lead class G01S accounts for 21.9% of the portfolio across 64 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (#1,536) and Advanced Connectek Inc. (#1,544).

Garmin's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Garmin Switzerland GmbH moved from 103 to 51 grants (0.49x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,707. See the growth leaderboard.

Ionis Pharmaceuti…

271
Resonac

271
Techtronic Cordle…

271
Colorado State Un…

270
Haier Smart Home

270
Katholieke Univer…

270
Tile

270
Garmin Switzerland ◀

270
Advanced Connectek

269

What this shows Garmin holds 270 patents at rank #1,540, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Garmin

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,540 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Garmin, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Tufts University 54 Balluff GMBH 54 Ninebot (CHANGZHOU) Tech Co., Ltd. 54 Amogreentech Co., Ltd. 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.8 here).

NuFlare Technology, Inc. 10.8 avg Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. 10.8 avg Unicharm Corporation 10.8 avg Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation 10.8 avg

Garmin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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.

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Garmin Switzerland GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	11.1%
2016	30	11.1%
2017	36	13.3%
2018	18	6.7%
2019	44	16.3%
2020	31	11.5%
2021	28	10.4%
2022	18	6.7%
2023	22	8.1%
2024	11	4.1%
2025partial year	2	0.7%

Which technologies does Garmin Switzerland GmbH patent most?

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 59

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 33

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 26

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 26

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 23

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 18

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 16

G04G - Electronic Time-pieces 15

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 14

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 13

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 11

B63J - Auxiliaries ON Vessels 11

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 10

G04C - Electromechanical Clocks OR Watches 9

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 9

Top 15 of 64 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,540

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

54.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Garmin Switzerland GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Garmin Switzerland GmbH's lead technology class is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra), 21.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #1,540 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Garmin Switzerland GmbH against Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.1/100 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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