Where does Innovative Micro Technology rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Innovative Micro Technology ranks #10,963 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 Innovative Micro Technology hold?

Innovative Micro Technology holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Innovative Micro Technology's Innovation Score?

Innovative Micro Technology has an Innovation Score of 46.8 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Innovative Micro Technology's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Innovative Micro Technology's recent grant velocity is -60% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Innovative Micro Technology's patents?

Innovative Micro Technology's patents average 17.1 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 Innovative Micro Technology 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

Innovative Micro Technology

Q: What technology areas does Innovative Micro Technology focus on?

Innovative Micro Technology's top technology area is B81C (Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems) with 15 patents, ranking #21 of 314 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 30 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: B81C (Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Innovative ranks #10,963 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 30 technology areas.

#10,963
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.8/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10963 · US Corporation #10,963 · 28 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #10,963/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Icomera AB
CPC-FOCUS B81C · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Icomera AB (±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 Innovative’s 46.8 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 11.6 pts (25%) Velocity 5.6 pts (12%) Breadth 19.4 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Innovative Micro… · this assignee

47
Intergraph · near

47
Koch-Glitsch · near

47
Metrol Technology · near

47
Southern States · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Innovative's Innovation Score is 46.8/100 (top 20% 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 Innovative?

Each dot is one of Innovative’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). Innovative’s own 17.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Innovative's grants concentrate

Innovative Micro Technology is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 53.6% of grants classified under B81C (Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Innovative sits between Ipar, LLC and Jiangsu Zhongheng PET Articles Joint-stock Co., Ltd..

Innovative's three-year grant acceleration

Innovative Micro Technology shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Ipar

28
Ipsen Bioinnovati…

28
Ironwood Pharmace…

28
Icomera AB

28
Intergraph

28
Japan Atomic Ener…

28
Jiangsu Advanced…

28
Jiangsu Zhongheng…

28
Innovative Micro… ◀

28

What this shows Innovative holds 28 patents at rank #10,967, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Innovative

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,967 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B81C (Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufact…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Innovative, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B81C (Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufact…), Innovative ranks #21 of 314 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Intergraph Corporation 47 Southern States, LLC 47 Metrol Technology Limited 47 Koch-Glitsch, LP 47

Innovative's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Innovative Micro Technology patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	10.7%
2016	7	25.0%
2017	2	7.1%
2018	5	17.9%
2019	3	10.7%
2020	2	7.1%
2021	1	3.6%
2022	4	14.3%
2023	1	3.6%

Which technologies does Innovative Micro Technology patent most?

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 15

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 14

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

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 5

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 5

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 3

H04B - Transmission 3

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

H03B - Generation OF Oscillations, Directly OR BY Frequency-changing, BY Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate IN A Non-switching MANNER; Generation OF Noise BY Such Circuits 2

G01H - Measurement OF Mechanical Vibrations OR Ultrasonic, Sonic OR Infrasonic Waves 2

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 2

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 2

Top 15 of 30 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

Innovative Micro Technology's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Innovative Micro Technology's lead technology class is B81C (Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems), 53.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B81C
Ranked #10,963 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Innovative Micro Technology against Ipar, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.8/100 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.