Where does Malvern Instruments Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Malvern Instruments Limited ranks #16,975 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 Malvern Instruments Limited hold?

Malvern Instruments Limited holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Malvern Instruments Limited's Innovation Score?

Malvern Instruments Limited has an Innovation Score of 33.5 out of 100 (45th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Malvern Instruments Limited focus on?

Malvern Instruments Limited's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 17 patents, ranking #897 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Malvern Instruments Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Malvern Instruments Limited's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Malvern Instruments Limited's patents?

Malvern Instruments Limited's patents average 22.5 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 Malvern Instruments Limited 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

Malvern Instruments Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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, Malvern ranks #16,975 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 8 technology areas.

#16,975
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 45th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.5/100): 22.5
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16975 · Foreign Corporation #16,975 · 17 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,975/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Magnomatics
CPC-NARROW G01N · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Magnomatics Limited (±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 Malvern’s 33.5 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 10.0 pts (30%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.0 pts (30%) Claim depth 13.5 pts (40%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Malvern Instruments · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Malvern's Innovation Score is 33.5/100 (45th 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 Malvern?

Each dot is one of Malvern’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). Malvern’s own 22.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Malvern's grants concentrate

Malvern Instruments Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Malvern sits between Mycartis N.V. and Medivance Incorporated.

Mycartis

17
Mycotechnology

17
Magnomatics

17
Mainhouse (Xiamen)

17
Marco Systemanaly…

17
Marotta Controls

17
Medic

17
Medivance Incorpo…

17
Malvern Instrumen… ◀

17

What this shows Malvern holds 17 patents at rank #16,996, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Malvern

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,996 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Malvern's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 45th percentile higher than 45% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Malvern Instruments Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.9%
2016	5	29.4%
2017	5	29.4%
2018	6	35.3%

Which technologies does Malvern Instruments Limited patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 17

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 3

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Malvern Instruments Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Malvern Instruments Limited's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #16,975 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Malvern Instruments Limited against Mycartis N.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.5/100 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.