Where does Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi ranks #8,829 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 Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi hold?

Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi holds 36 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 50 technology areas.

What is Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi's Innovation Score?

Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi has an Innovation Score of 52.9 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi's recent grant velocity is +83% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi's patents?

Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi's patents average 14.6 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 Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi 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

Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi

Q: What technology areas does Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi focus on?

Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 6 patents, ranking #2,307 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 50 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 36 granted patents across 50 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Indian ranks #8,829 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 50 technology areas.

#8,829
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (52.9/100): 14.6
avg claims per patent: +83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8829 · Foreign Corporation #8,829 · 36 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 36 grants
UPPER-Q #8,829/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL)
CPC-WIDE G01N · 50 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +83% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL) (±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 Indian’s 52.9 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 12.5 pts (24%) Velocity 6.7 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alma Mater STUDIORUM… · near

53
Hexion · near

53
Indian Institute OF… · this assignee

53
Landa Labs (2012) · near

53
Parallel Wireless · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Indian's Innovation Score is 52.9/100 (top 9% 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 Indian?

Each dot is one of Indian’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). Indian’s own 14.6 claims/patent is at or below the 15.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Indian's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi received 22 grants versus 12 in 2015–2019 (+83% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 8 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 1. Lead class G01N accounts for 16.7% of the portfolio across 50 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Huntleigh Technology Limited (#8,824) and Integenx Inc. (#8,832).

Indian's three-year grant acceleration

Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Huntleigh Technol…

36
HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL)

36
HÜBNER & KG

36
Idemitsu Unitech

36
Innodisk

36
Inria—Institut Na…

36
Insilico Medicine…

36
Integenx

36
Indian Institute… ◀

36

What this shows Indian holds 36 patents at rank #8,828, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Indian

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,828 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Indian, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Indian ranks #2,307 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Landa Labs (2012) Ltd. 53 Alma Mater STUDIORUM—UNIVERSITÀ DI Bologna 53 Hexion Inc. 53 Parallel Wireless, Inc. 53

Indian's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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.

View data table

Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	5.6%
2016	2	5.6%
2017	1	2.8%
2018	3	8.3%
2019	4	11.1%
2020	1	2.8%
2021	8	22.2%
2022	6	16.7%
2023	3	8.3%
2024	4	11.1%
2025partial year	2	5.6%

Which technologies does Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

C07K - Peptides 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 4

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 4

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 2

B01D - Separation 2

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

Top 15 of 50 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

Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 16.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #8,829 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Indian Institute OF Technology Delhi against Huntleigh Technology Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.9/100 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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