Where does Indium Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Indium Corporation ranks #8,409 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 Indium Corporation hold?

Indium Corporation holds 38 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Indium Corporation's Innovation Score?

Indium Corporation has an Innovation Score of 51.3 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Indium Corporation focus on?

Indium Corporation's top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 22 patents, ranking #562 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

Is Indium Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Indium Corporation's recent grant velocity is +57% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Indium Corporation's patents?

Indium Corporation'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 Indium Corporation 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

Indium Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 24 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: H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Indium ranks #8,409 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 24 technology areas.

#8,409
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.3/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: +57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8409 · US Corporation #8,409 · 38 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 38 grants
UPPER-Q #8,409/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hannibal IP
CPC-FOCUS H01L · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hannibal IP LLC (±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 Indium’s 51.3 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 12.7 pts (25%) Velocity 10.4 pts (20%) Breadth 17.3 pts (34%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ancestry com… · near

51
Appleton GRP · near

51
Indium · this assignee

51
Persimmon · near

51
iLOQ Oy · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Indium's Innovation Score is 51.3/100 (top 12% 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 Indium?

Each dot is one of Indium’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). Indium’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Indium's grants concentrate

Indium Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 57.9% of grants classified under H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Indium sits between Heckler & Koch GmbH and Idenix Pharmaceuticals LLC.

Indium's three-year grant acceleration

Indium Corporation shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Heckler & Koch

38
Husco Automotive…

38
Hannibal IP

38
Hinkley Lighting

38
Innowireless

38
Ipla Holdings

38
Iridex

38
Idenix Pharmaceut…

38
Indium ◀

38

What this shows Indium holds 38 patents at rank #8,407, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Indium

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,407 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Indium, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), Indium ranks #562 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Ancestry.com Operations Inc. 51 Appleton GRP LLC 51 Persimmon Technologies Corporation 51 iLOQ Oy 51

Indium's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% 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

Indium Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	13.2%
2016	2	5.3%
2017	3	7.9%
2018	3	7.9%
2019	1	2.6%
2020	5	13.2%
2021	3	7.9%
2022	3	7.9%
2023	7	18.4%
2024	4	10.5%
2025partial year	2	5.3%

Which technologies does Indium Corporation patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 22

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 21

C22C - Alloys 18

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 12

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 3

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 3

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1

B22C - Foundry Moulding 1

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 1

Top 15 of 24 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Indium Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Indium Corporation's lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 57.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #8,409 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Indium Corporation against Heckler & Koch GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.3/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.