Where does Joel Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Joel Ltd. ranks #32,180 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 Joel Ltd. hold?

Joel Ltd. holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Joel Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Joel Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 37.6 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Joel Ltd. focus on?

Joel Ltd.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 4 patents, ranking #3,181 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Joel Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Joel Ltd..

What does claim depth mean for Joel Ltd.'s patents?

Joel Ltd.'s patents average 10.1 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 Joel Ltd. 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

Joel Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Joel ranks #32,180 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 9 technology areas.

#32,180
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.6/100): 10.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R32180 · Foreign Corporation #32,180 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #32,180/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Jive Communications
CPC-NARROW G01N · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Jive Communications, Inc. (±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 Joel’s 37.6 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 7.6 pts (20%) Velocity 13.3 pts (35%) Breadth 10.6 pts (28%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (16%)

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What this shows Joel's Innovation Score is 37.6/100 (top 43% 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 Joel?

Each dot is one of Joel’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). Joel’s own 10.1 claims/patent is at or below the 10.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Joel's grants concentrate

Joel Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Joel sits between Jive Communications, Inc. and Joong Chenn Industry Co., Ltd..

Joel's three-year grant acceleration

Joel Ltd. shows 4 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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What this shows Joel holds 8 patents at rank #32,154, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Joel

By rank, the assignees closest to #32,154 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Joel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Joel Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	12.5%
2021	1	12.5%
2022	1	12.5%
2024	3	37.5%
2025partial year	2	25.0%

Which technologies does Joel Ltd. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 2

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

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 1

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

Top 9 of 9 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

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

Joel Ltd.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #32,180 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Joel Ltd. against Jive Communications, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.6/100 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.