Where does Institute FOR Information Industry rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Institute FOR Information Industry ranks #1,187 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 Institute FOR Information Industry hold?

Institute FOR Information Industry holds 359 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 62 technology areas.

What is Institute FOR Information Industry's Innovation Score?

Institute FOR Information Industry has an Innovation Score of 59.5 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Institute FOR Information Industry focus on?

Institute FOR Information Industry's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 133 patents. Grants appear in 62 CPC subclasses total.

Is Institute FOR Information Industry's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Institute FOR Information Industry's recent grant velocity is -47% 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 Institute FOR Information Industry's patents?

Institute FOR Information Industry's patents average 16.0 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 Institute FOR Information Industry 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

Institute FOR Information Industry

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 359 granted patents across 62 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Institute ranks #1,187 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 359 patents across 62 technology areas.

#1,187
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.5/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: -47%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1187 · Foreign Corporation #1,187 · 359 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 359 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,187/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Denka
CPC-WIDE G06F · 62 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -47% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Denka Company Limited (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Energous · near

59
Roche Sequencing… · near

59
HD Hyundai Infracore · near

59
Institute FOR… · this assignee

59
Mozarc Medical US · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Institute's Innovation Score is 59.5/100 (top 4% 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.

How Institute's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Institute FOR Information Industry received 123 grants versus 232 in 2015–2019 (-47% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 55 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 10. Lead class G06F accounts for 37% of the portfolio across 62 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Academia Sinica (#1,183) and Beijing Dajia Internet Information Technology Co., Ltd. (#1,191).

Institute's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Institute FOR Information Industry moved from 95 to 64 grants (0.67x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,231. See the growth leaderboard.

Academia Sinica

360
Institute OF Micr…

360
University of Geo…

360
Denka

359
South China Unive…

359
Institute FOR Inf… ◀

359
Trustees OF Bosto…

358
Valeo Systemes d'…

357
Beijing Dajia Int…

356

What this shows Institute holds 359 patents at rank #1,187, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Institute

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,187 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Institute, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Mozarc Medical US LLC 59 HD Hyundai Infracore Co., Ltd. 59 Energous Corporation 59 Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc. 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.0 here).

Agency FOR Science, Technology AND Research 16.0 avg Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. 16.0 avg Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 16.0 avg Hutchinson 16.0 avg

Institute's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Institute FOR Information Industry patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	55	15.3%
2016	54	15.0%
2017	54	15.0%
2018	33	9.2%
2019	36	10.0%
2020	34	9.5%
2021	25	7.0%
2022	34	9.5%
2023	20	5.6%
2024	10	2.8%
2025partial year	4	1.1%

Which technologies does Institute FOR Information Industry patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 133

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 107

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 97

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 48

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 44

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 39

H04B - Transmission 21

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 21

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 20

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 15

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 12

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 11

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 11

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 8

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 8

Top 15 of 62 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,187

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

59.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Institute FOR Information Industry's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Institute FOR Information Industry's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 37% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,187 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Institute FOR Information Industry against Academia Sinica, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.5/100 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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