USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

General TEST Systems Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2024. 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: H04B (TRANSMISSION).

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, General ranks #21,173 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 7 technology areas.

#21,173
of 50,000 US assignees by volume
Top 50%
by Innovation Score (35.0/100)
16.5
avg claims per patent
+17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21173 · Foreign Corporation #21,173 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
  • MID-PACK #21,173/50,000
  • PHOTO-FINISH Furukawa Rock Drill
  • CPC-NARROW H04B · 7 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 35.0/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-UP +17% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Furukawa Rock Drill Co., Ltd. (±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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around General

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows General's Innovation Score is 35.0/100 (top 50% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Where General's grants concentrate

General TEST Systems Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 84.6% of grants classified under H04B (TRANSMISSION). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, General sits between Furukawa Rock Drill Co., Ltd. and Geophysical Survey Systems, Inc..

Who files at General's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows General holds 13 patents at rank #21,166, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near General

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,166 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04B (Transmission)

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

General's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 50% higher than 50% of 50,000 US assignees

0–10: 687 US assignees (1%). Below this entry. 10–20: 2,527 US assignees (5%). Below this entry. 20–30: 13,162 US assignees (26%). Below this entry. 30–40: 15,294 US assignees (31%). This entry sits in this band. 40–50: 11,491 US assignees (23%). Above this entry. 50–60: 5,058 US assignees (10%). Above this entry. 60–70: 1,537 US assignees (3%). Above this entry. 70–80: 234 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 80–90: 10 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 90–100: 0 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

0.511.522.533.5 20172018201920202021202220232024 2
USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2024

Grants by year

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

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General TEST Systems Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2017 1 7.7%
2018 2 15.4%
2019 3 23.1%
2020 1 7.7%
2021 1 7.7%
2022 1 7.7%
2023 2 15.4%
2024 2 15.4%

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,173

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

35.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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