Where does Malta Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Malta Inc. ranks #6,559 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 Malta Inc. hold?

Malta Inc. holds 51 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Malta Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Malta Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.8 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Malta Inc. focus on?

Malta Inc.'s top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 49 patents, ranking #295 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is Malta Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Malta Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +177% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Malta Inc.'s patents?

Malta Inc.'s patents average 18.7 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 Malta Inc. 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

Malta Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 51 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Malta ranks #6,559 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 51 patents across 15 technology areas.

#6,559
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.8/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: +177%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6559 · US Corporation #6,559 · 51 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 51 grants
UPPER-Q #6,559/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lantheus Medical…
CPC-FOCUS Y02E · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +177% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lantheus Medical Imaging, 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 Malta’s 46.8 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 13.6 pts (29%) Velocity 8.2 pts (18%) Breadth 13.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Citigroup Technology · near

47
EnergyHub · near

47
Gree Green Refrigera… · near

47
Malta · this assignee

47
Presidio Medical · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Malta's Innovation Score is 46.8/100 (top 20% 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 Malta?

Each dot is one of Malta’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). Malta’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Malta's grants concentrate

Malta Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 96.1% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (13 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2020. By volume, Malta sits between Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. and Motive Drilling Technologies, Inc..

Malta's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Malta Inc. moved from 22 to 27 grants (1.23x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Lantheus Medical…

51
Lantiq Deutschland

51
Lynk Labs

51
M-I Drilling Flui…

51
MCI (Mirror Contr…

51
Medibeacon

51
Mitek Holdings

51
Motive Drilling

51
Malta ◀

51

What this shows Malta holds 51 patents at rank #6,559, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Malta

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,559 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Malta, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Malta ranks #295 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Gree Green Refrigeration Technology Center Co., Ltd. of Zhuhai 47 Citigroup Technology, Inc. 47 EnergyHub, Inc. 47 Presidio Medical, Inc. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.7 here).

Arcturus Therapeutics, Inc. 18.7 avg Braskem S.A. 18.7 avg Dorel Juvenile Group, Inc. 18.7 avg Samsara Inc. 18.7 avg

Malta's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Malta Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	13	25.5%
2020	2	3.9%
2021	7	13.7%
2022	9	17.6%
2023	9	17.6%
2024	9	17.6%
2025partial year	2	3.9%

Which technologies does Malta Inc. patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 49

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 49

F01K - Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles 42

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 30

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 21

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 15

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 11

F24S - Solar Heat COLLECTORS; Solar Heat Systems 9

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 5

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 5

F03G - Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like MOTORS; Mechanical-power Producing Devices OR Mechanisms, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR OR Using Energy Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 4

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 3

B01D - Separation 3

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 2

Top 15 of 15 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

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

Malta Inc.'s lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 96.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #6,559 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Malta Inc. against Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.8/100 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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