Where does Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA) rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA) ranks #6,777 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 Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA) hold?

Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA) holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA)'s Innovation Score?

Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA) has an Innovation Score of 47.4 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA)'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA)'s recent grant velocity is +210% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA)'s patents?

Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA)'s patents average 17.8 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 Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA) 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

Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA)

Q: What technology areas does Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA) focus on?

Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA)'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 48 patents, ranking #304 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gemological ranks #6,777 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 14 technology areas.

#6,777
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.4/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: +210%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6777 · US Corporation #6,777 · 49 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,777/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gatekeeper Systems
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +210% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gatekeeper Systems, 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 Gemological’s 47.4 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 13.5 pts (28%) Velocity 10.0 pts (21%) Breadth 13.2 pts (28%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ansell · near

47
Distran · near

47
Gemological… · this assignee

47
Raynergy Tek… · near

47
Renaissance Learning · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gemological's Innovation Score is 47.4/100 (top 19% 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 Gemological?

Each dot is one of Gemological’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). Gemological’s own 17.8 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.

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

Where Gemological's grants concentrate

Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA) is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 98% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Gemological sits between GE Healthcare UK Limited and Grow Solutions Tech LLC.

Gemological's three-year grant acceleration

Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA) shows 21 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

GE Healthcare UK

49
GEA Food Solution…

49
Grenzebach Maschi…

49
Gatekeeper Systems

49
General Atomics

49
Georgia-pacific G…

49
Goertek Technology

49
Grow Solutions Te…

49
Gemological Insti… ◀

49

What this shows Gemological holds 49 patents at rank #6,778, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gemological

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,778 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Gemological, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Gemological ranks #304 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Ansell Limited 47 Raynergy Tek Incorporation 47 Distran AG 47 Renaissance Learning, Inc. 47

Gemological's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA) patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	2.0%
2017	2	4.1%
2018	3	6.1%
2019	4	8.2%
2020	6	12.2%
2021	4	8.2%
2022	5	10.2%
2023	8	16.3%
2024	8	16.3%
2025partial year	8	16.3%

Which technologies does Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA) patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 48

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 15

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 5

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 2

G11C - Static Stores 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 1

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 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

Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA)'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA)'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 98% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #6,777 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA) against GE Healthcare UK Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.4/100 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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