Where does Ixblue rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ixblue ranks #7,426 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 Ixblue hold?

Ixblue holds 44 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Ixblue's Innovation Score?

Ixblue has an Innovation Score of 45.9 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ixblue's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ixblue's recent grant velocity is -37% 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 Ixblue's patents?

Ixblue's patents average 16.8 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 Ixblue 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

Ixblue

Q: What technology areas does Ixblue focus on?

Ixblue's top technology area is G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry) with 18 patents, ranking #173 of 1,814 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 44 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: G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ixblue ranks #7,426 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 44 patents across 30 technology areas.

#7,426
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (45.9/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7426 · Foreign Corporation #7,426 · 44 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 44 grants
UPPER-Q #7,426/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Herbert Kannegiesser
CPC-FOCUS G01C · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH (±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 Ixblue’s 45.9 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 13.1 pts (29%) Velocity 3.3 pts (7%) Breadth 19.4 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Oneplus Technology… · near

46
Astellas Institute… · near

46
Brinkman Products · near

46
Ixblue · this assignee

46
Star Institute of… · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ixblue's Innovation Score is 45.9/100 (top 22% 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 Ixblue?

Each dot is one of Ixblue’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). Ixblue’s own 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ixblue's grants concentrate

Ixblue is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 40.9% of grants classified under G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Ixblue sits between Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH and Kulzer GMBH.

Ixblue's three-year grant acceleration

Ixblue shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Herbert Kannegies…

44
Huawei Internatio…

44
Ictk Holdings

44
Inglass S P A

44
K-international

44
Kenwood

44
Kpmg LLP

44
Kulzer

44
Ixblue ◀

44

What this shows Ixblue holds 44 patents at rank #7,426, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ixblue

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,426 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01C (Measuring Distances)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ixblue, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01C (Measuring Distances), Ixblue ranks #173 of 1,814 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine 46 Star Institute of Intelligent Systems 46 Brinkman Products, Inc. 46 Oneplus Technology (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. 46

Ixblue's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% 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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Ixblue patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	11.4%
2016	6	13.6%
2017	9	20.5%
2018	3	6.8%
2019	4	9.1%
2020	3	6.8%
2021	7	15.9%
2022	6	13.6%
2023	1	2.3%

Which technologies does Ixblue patent most?

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 18

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 14

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 6

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 4

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 4

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 3

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 3

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 2

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 2

B63G - Offensive OR Defensive Arrangements ON VESSELS; MINE-LAYING; MINE-SWEEPING; SUBMARINES; Aircraft Carriers 2

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 2

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 2

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 2

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 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

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

Ixblue's lead technology class is G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry), 40.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01C
Ranked #7,426 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ixblue against Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.9/100 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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