Where does MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. ranks #6,560 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 MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. hold?

MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. holds 51 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.'s Innovation Score?

MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. has an Innovation Score of 52.4 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. focus on?

MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.'s top technology area is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 36 patents, ranking #128 of 1,969 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

Is MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.'s recent grant velocity is +44% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.'s patents?

MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.'s patents average 18.2 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 Foreign Corporation

MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.

Q: How is the MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. 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 - 51 granted patents across 27 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: B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, MCI ranks #6,560 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 51 patents across 27 technology areas.

#6,560
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.4/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: +44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6560 · Foreign Corporation #6,560 · 51 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 51 grants
UPPER-Q #6,560/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lantiq Deutschland
CPC-FOCUS B60R · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lantiq Deutschland GmbH (±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 MCI’s 52.4 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 (26%) Velocity 9.5 pts (18%) Breadth 18.4 pts (35%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
MCI (Mirror… · this assignee

52
Nextiva · near

52
Yunding Network… · near

52
BP Exploration… · near

52
Nippon Hoso Kyokai · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows MCI's Innovation Score is 52.4/100 (top 10% 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 MCI?

Each dot is one of MCI’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). MCI’s own 18.2 claims/patent is at or below the 18.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where MCI's grants concentrate

MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 70.6% of grants classified under B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, MCI sits between Lantiq Deutschland GmbH and Methode Electronics, Inc..

MCI's three-year grant acceleration

MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. shows 20 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Lantiq Deutschland

51
Lynk Labs

51
M-I Drilling Flui…

51
Malta

51
Medibeacon

51
Mitek Holdings

51
Motive Drilling

51
Methode

51
MCI (Mirror Contr… ◀

51

What this shows MCI holds 51 patents at rank #6,560, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near MCI

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,560 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60R (Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for MCI, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60R (Vehicles), MCI ranks #128 of 1,969 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Nextiva, Inc. 52 Yunding Network Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. 52 BP Exploration Operating Company Limited 52 Nippon Hoso Kyokai 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.2 here).

Wichita State University 18.2 avg Bedrock Automation Platforms Inc. 18.2 avg Voss Automotive GmbH 18.2 avg Young Lighting Technology Inc. 18.2 avg

MCI's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	5.9%
2016	1	2.0%
2018	6	11.8%
2019	8	15.7%
2020	2	3.9%
2021	4	7.8%
2022	4	7.8%
2023	10	19.6%
2024	6	11.8%
2025partial year	7	13.7%

Which technologies does MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. patent most?

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 36

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 13

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 10

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 10

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 8

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 7

B60S - Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

F16H - Gearing 7

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 5

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 5

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

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 4

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 3

Top 15 of 27 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

MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.'s lead technology class is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 70.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60R
Ranked #6,560 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. against Lantiq Deutschland GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.4/100 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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