Where does INX International Ink Co. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), INX International Ink Co. ranks #26,596 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 INX International Ink Co. hold?

INX International Ink Co. holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is INX International Ink Co.'s Innovation Score?

INX International Ink Co. has an Innovation Score of 34.3 out of 100 (47th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is INX International Ink Co.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

INX International Ink Co.'s recent grant velocity is -20% 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 INX International Ink Co.'s patents?

INX International Ink Co.'s patents average 17.8 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 INX International Ink Co. 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

INX International Ink Co.

Q: What technology areas does INX International Ink Co. focus on?

INX International Ink Co.'s top technology area is C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor) with 5 patents, ranking #497 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 6 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: C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, INX ranks #26,596 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 6 technology areas.

#26,596
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 47th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.3/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26596 · US Corporation #26,596 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,596/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Intertec Technology
CPC-NARROW C09D · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Intertec Technology 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.

How INX’s 34.3 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 8.3 pts (24%) Velocity 6.7 pts (19%) Breadth 8.7 pts (25%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
INX International Ink · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows INX's Innovation Score is 34.3/100 (47th percentile 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 INX?

Each dot is one of INX’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). INX’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where INX's grants concentrate

INX International Ink Co. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, INX sits between Intertec Technology Limited and IOmet Pharma Ltd..

INX's three-year grant acceleration

INX International Ink Co. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

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10
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10
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10
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10
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10
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10
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10
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10

What this shows INX holds 10 patents at rank #26,549, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near INX

By rank, the assignees closest to #26,549 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

INX's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 47th percentile higher than 47% 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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INX International Ink Co. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	30.0%
2016	1	10.0%
2018	1	10.0%
2021	2	20.0%
2022	1	10.0%
2024	1	10.0%
2025partial year	1	10.0%

Which technologies does INX International Ink Co. patent most?

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 5

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 5

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 4

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 4

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 4

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 3

Top 6 of 6 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

INX International Ink Co.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

INX International Ink Co.'s lead technology class is C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #26,596 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare INX International Ink Co. against Intertec Technology Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.3/100 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

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