Where does Imperial College Innovations Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Imperial College Innovations Ltd ranks #3,845 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 Imperial College Innovations Ltd hold?

Imperial College Innovations Ltd holds 94 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 89 technology areas.

What is Imperial College Innovations Ltd's Innovation Score?

Imperial College Innovations Ltd has an Innovation Score of 68.4 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Imperial College Innovations Ltd focus on?

Imperial College Innovations Ltd's top technology area is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations) with 21 patents, ranking #933 of 6,058 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 89 CPC subclasses total.

Is Imperial College Innovations Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Imperial College Innovations Ltd's recent grant velocity is +1575% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Imperial College Innovations Ltd's patents?

Imperial College Innovations Ltd's patents average 18.3 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 Imperial College Innovations Ltd 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

Imperial College Innovations Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 94 granted patents across 89 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: A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Imperial ranks #3,845 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 94 patents across 89 technology areas.

#3,845
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.4/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: +1575%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3845 · Foreign Corporation #3,845 · 94 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 94 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,845/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Heptagon Micro…
CPC-WIDE A61P · 89 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +1575% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Heptagon Micro Optics Pte. 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.

How Imperial’s 68.4 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 15.7 pts (23%) Velocity 16.7 pts (24%) Breadth 25.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (16%)

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What this shows Imperial's Innovation Score is 68.4/100 (top 1% 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 Imperial?

Each dot is one of Imperial’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). Imperial’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Imperial's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Imperial College Innovations Ltd received 67 grants versus 4 in 2015–2019 (+1575% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 19 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 1. Lead class A61P accounts for 22.3% of the portfolio across 89 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Heptagon Micro Optics Pte. Ltd. (#3,841) and Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH & Co KG (#3,849).

Imperial's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Imperial College Innovations Ltd moved from 20 to 50 grants (2.50x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

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Imperial College… ◀

94

What this shows Imperial holds 94 patents at rank #3,845, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Imperial

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,845 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Imperial, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…), Imperial ranks #933 of 6,058 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc. 68 California Institute OF Technology 68 Enevate Corporation 68 Baker Hughes Holdings LLC 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.3 here).

Creo Medical Limited 18.3 avg Banner Engineering Corp. 18.3 avg Ndsu Research Foundation 18.3 avg Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 18.3 avg

Imperial's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Imperial College Innovations Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.1%
2019	3	3.2%
2020	9	9.6%
2021	8	8.5%
2022	13	13.8%
2023	18	19.1%
2024	19	20.2%
2025partial year	23	24.5%

Which technologies does Imperial College Innovations Ltd patent most?

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 21

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 20

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 19

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 16

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 12

C07K - Peptides 12

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 11

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 9

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 8

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 7

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 6

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 5

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 5

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 4

Top 15 of 89 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

Imperial College Innovations Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Imperial College Innovations Ltd's lead technology class is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations), 22.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61P
Ranked #3,845 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Imperial College Innovations Ltd against Heptagon Micro Optics Pte. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.4/100 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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