Where does Meco SA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Meco SA ranks #14,769 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 Meco SA hold?

Meco SA holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Meco SA's Innovation Score?

Meco SA has an Innovation Score of 40.2 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Meco SA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Meco SA's recent grant velocity is +180% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Meco SA's patents?

Meco SA's patents average 14.2 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.

How is the Meco SA 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

Meco SA

Q: What technology areas does Meco SA focus on?

Meco SA's top technology area is G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars) with 20 patents, ranking #13 of 92 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 10 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: G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Meco ranks #14,769 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 10 technology areas.

#14,769
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.2/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: +180%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14769 · Foreign Corporation #14,769 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,769/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Macquarie University
CPC-FOCUS G04B · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +180% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Macquarie University (±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 Meco’s 40.2 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 10.5 pts (26%) Velocity 10.0 pts (25%) Breadth 11.2 pts (28%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Meco · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Meco's Innovation Score is 40.2/100 (top 36% 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 Meco?

Each dot is one of Meco’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). Meco’s own 14.2 claims/patent is at or below the 16.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Meco's grants concentrate

Meco SA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Meco sits between Macquarie University and MGA Entertainment, Inc.

Meco's three-year grant acceleration

Meco SA shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Macquarie Univers…

20
Mandos

20
Marel Townsend Fu…

20
Maven Optronics

20
Medicell

20
Metalogenia Resea…

20
MF IP Holding

20
MGA Entertainment

20
Meco ◀

20

What this shows Meco holds 20 patents at rank #14,759, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Meco

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,759 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR Watches)

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

Meco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% 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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Meco SA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.0%
2016	2	10.0%
2018	1	5.0%
2019	1	5.0%
2020	2	10.0%
2021	3	15.0%
2022	1	5.0%
2023	4	20.0%
2024	4	20.0%
2025partial year	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Meco SA patent most?

G04B - Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars 20

G04G - Electronic Time-pieces 3

G04F - Time-interval Measuring 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 1

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 1

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 1

G04C - Electromechanical Clocks OR Watches 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

G04D - Apparatus OR Tools Specially Designed FOR Making OR Maintaining Clocks OR Watches 1

Top 10 of 10 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

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Meco SA's lead technology class is G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G04B
Ranked #14,769 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Meco SA against Macquarie University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.2/100 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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