Where does Leonardo MW Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Leonardo MW Ltd. ranks #17,845 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 Leonardo MW Ltd. hold?

Leonardo MW Ltd. holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2021, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Leonardo MW Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Leonardo MW Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 32.0 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Leonardo MW Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -86% 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 Leonardo MW Ltd.'s patents?

Leonardo MW Ltd.'s patents average 14.1 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 Leonardo MW 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

Leonardo MW Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Leonardo MW Ltd. focus on?

Leonardo MW Ltd.'s top technology area is 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) with 5 patents, ranking #964 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Leonardo ranks #17,845 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 15 technology areas.

#17,845
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.0/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: -86%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17845 · Foreign Corporation #17,845 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,845/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Laurel Bank Machines
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -86% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Laurel Bank Machines Co., Ltd. (±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 Leonardo’s 32.0 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 9.8 pts (31%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 13.7 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Leonardo MW · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Leonardo's Innovation Score is 32.0/100 (40th 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 Leonardo?

Each dot is one of Leonardo’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). Leonardo’s own 14.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 7.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Leonardo's grants concentrate

Leonardo MW Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 31.3% of grants classified under 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 Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Leonardo sits between Laurel Bank Machines Co., Ltd. and Llevinac, S.L..

Laurel Bank Machi…

16
Lazzeri Societa A…

16
Leatt

16
Leistritz Pumpen

16
Liffe Administrat…

16
Limoss (Shenzhen)

16
Liquidia

16
Llevinac S L

16
Leonardo MW ◀

16

What this shows Leonardo holds 16 patents at rank #17,840, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Leonardo

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,840 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Leonardo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Leonardo MW Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	6.3%
2017	6	37.5%
2018	3	18.8%
2019	4	25.0%
2021	2	12.5%

Which technologies does Leonardo MW Ltd. patent most?

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 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 4

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 3

H04B - Transmission 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

H04K - Secret COMMUNICATION; Jamming OF Communication 1

H04J - Multiplex Communication 1

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 1

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 1

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 1

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

Top 15 of 15 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

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

Leonardo MW Ltd.'s lead technology class is 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 Arra), 31.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #17,845 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Leonardo MW Ltd. against Laurel Bank Machines Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.0/100 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

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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.