Where does Magseis FF LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Magseis FF LLC ranks #5,227 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 Magseis FF LLC hold?

Magseis FF LLC holds 66 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Magseis FF LLC's Innovation Score?

Magseis FF LLC has an Innovation Score of 43.7 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Magseis FF LLC focus on?

Magseis FF LLC's top technology area is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags) with 64 patents, ranking #23 of 835 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Magseis FF LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Magseis FF LLC's recent grant velocity is +271% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Magseis FF LLC's patents?

Magseis FF LLC's patents average 19.4 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 Magseis FF LLC 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

Magseis FF LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 66 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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: G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Magseis ranks #5,227 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 66 patents across 16 technology areas.

#5,227
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.7/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: +271%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5227 · US Corporation #5,227 · 66 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 66 grants
UPPER-Q #5,227/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ludwig-Maximilians-U…
CPC-FOCUS G01V · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +271% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen (±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 Magseis’s 43.7 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 14.5 pts (33%) Velocity 3.3 pts (8%) Breadth 14.1 pts (32%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Exmark Manufacturing… · near

44
Iwis Motorsysteme & KG · near

44
Magseis FF · this assignee

44
Superior Communicati… · near

44
Yamashin-filter · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Magseis's Innovation Score is 43.7/100 (top 28% 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 Magseis?

Each dot is one of Magseis’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). Magseis’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Magseis's grants concentrate

Magseis FF LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 97% of grants classified under G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (16 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2024. By volume, Magseis sits between Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen and New Audio LLC.

Magseis's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Magseis FF LLC moved from 44 to 22 grants (0.50x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Ludwig-maximilian…

66
Mapsted

66
Mayekawa MFG

66
Medtronic Ablatio…

66
Mead Johnson Nutr…

66
Mobius Imaging

66
Netlist

66
New Audio

66
Magseis FF ◀

66

What this shows Magseis holds 66 patents at rank #5,230, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Magseis

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,230 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01V (Geophysics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Magseis, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01V (Geophysics), Magseis ranks #23 of 835 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Superior Communications, Inc. 44 Exmark Manufacturing Company Incorporated 44 Iwis Motorsysteme GMBH & Co. KG 44 Yamashin-filter Corp. 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Teledyne Instruments, Inc. 19.4 avg R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company 19.4 avg Metrologic Instruments, Inc. 19.4 avg Illuscio, Inc. 19.4 avg

Magseis's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 28% higher than 72% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

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Magseis FF LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	14	21.2%
2020	14	21.2%
2021	16	24.2%
2022	8	12.1%
2023	8	12.1%
2024	6	9.1%

Which technologies does Magseis FF LLC patent most?

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 64

H04B - Transmission 15

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 14

B63G - Offensive OR Defensive Arrangements ON VESSELS; MINE-LAYING; MINE-SWEEPING; SUBMARINES; Aircraft Carriers 12

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 11

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 10

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 7

B63C - Launching, Hauling-out, OR Dry-docking OF VESSELS; Life-saving IN WATER; Equipment FOR Dwelling OR Working Under WATER; Means FOR Salvaging OR Searching FOR Underwater Objects 7

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

H03G - Control OF Amplification 1

H04Q - Selecting 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Magseis FF LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Magseis FF LLC's lead technology class is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags), 97% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01V
Ranked #5,227 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Magseis FF LLC against Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.7/100 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

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