Where does Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company ranks #1,334 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 Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company hold?

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company holds 317 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company's Innovation Score?

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company has an Innovation Score of 55.2 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company's recent grant velocity is +148% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company's patents?

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company's patents average 18.1 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

Q: What technology areas does Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company focus on?

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company's top technology area is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 173 patents. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company 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 PatentsView assignee record - 317 granted patents across 35 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Massachusetts ranks #1,334 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 317 patents across 35 technology areas.

#1,334
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.2/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: +148%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1334 · US Corporation #1,334 · 317 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 317 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,334/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Genzyme
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +148% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Genzyme Corporation (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chicony Power… · near

55
Dometic Sweden AB · near

55
Massachusetts… · this assignee

55
Omnicell · near

55
Toagosei · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Massachusetts's Innovation Score is 55.2/100 (top 7% 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.

Where Massachusetts's grants concentrate

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 54.6% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (63 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Massachusetts sits between R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and On-Bright Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd..

Massachusetts's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company moved from 172 to 92 grants (0.54x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,607. See the growth leaderboard.

R J Reynolds Toba…

319
THE Chemours FC

319
Genzyme

317
Harman Becker Aut…

317
Qisda

317
University of Kan…

317
Massachusetts Mut… ◀

317
Cummins Filtratio…

316
On-bright (Shangh…

316

What this shows Massachusetts holds 317 patents at rank #1,334, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Massachusetts

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,334 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Massachusetts, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Chicony Power Technology Co., Ltd. 55 Dometic Sweden AB 55 Toagosei Co., Ltd. 55 Omnicell, Inc. 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.1 here).

Ibiden Co., Ltd. 18.1 avg Saint-gobain Abrasifs 18.1 avg Kansas State University Research Foundation 18.1 avg Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. 18.1 avg

Massachusetts's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	0.3%
2016	1	0.3%
2017	13	4.1%
2018	24	7.6%
2019	48	15.1%
2020	63	19.9%
2021	61	19.2%
2022	34	10.7%
2023	39	12.3%
2024	19	6.0%
2025partial year	14	4.4%

Which technologies does Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company patent most?

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 173

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 171

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 100

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 91

H04M - Telephonic Communication 51

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 32

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 22

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 21

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 15

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 12

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 11

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

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 7

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 6

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 5

Top 15 of 35 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,334

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

55.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company's lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 54.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #1,334 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.2/100 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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