Where does Melfas Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Melfas Inc. ranks #17,890 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 Melfas Inc. hold?

Melfas Inc. holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Melfas Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Melfas Inc. has an Innovation Score of 30.0 out of 100 (33rd 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 Melfas Inc. focus on?

Melfas Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 16 patents, ranking #2,520 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

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

Melfas Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -77% 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 Melfas Inc.'s patents?

Melfas Inc.'s patents average 15.6 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 Melfas 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 Foreign Corporation

Melfas Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Melfas ranks #17,890 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 6 technology areas.

#17,890
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 33rd percentile
by Innovation Score (30.0/100): 15.6
avg claims per patent: -77%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17890 · Foreign Corporation #17,890 · 16 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,890/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Matisa Matériel…
CPC-NARROW G06F · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -77% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Matisa Matériel Industriel S.A. (±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 Melfas’s 30.0 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 9.8 pts (33%) Velocity 2.2 pts (7%) Breadth 8.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Melfas · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Melfas's Innovation Score is 30.0/100 (33rd 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 Melfas?

Each dot is one of Melfas’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). Melfas’s own 15.6 claims/patent is at or below the 15.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Melfas's grants concentrate

Melfas Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Melfas sits between Matisa Matériel Industriel S.A. and Merits Health Products Co., Ltd..

Melfas's three-year grant acceleration

Melfas Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Matisa Matériel I…

16
Matroid

16
Medmix Systems

16
Megvii (Beijing)…

16
Mems Drive (Nanji…

16
Mercer University

16
Merck & CIE

16
Merits Health Pro…

16
Melfas ◀

16

What this shows Melfas holds 16 patents at rank #17,874, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Melfas

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,874 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Melfas's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 33rd percentile higher than 33% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Melfas Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	25.0%
2016	2	12.5%
2017	4	25.0%
2018	2	12.5%
2019	1	6.3%
2020	2	12.5%
2022	1	6.3%

Which technologies does Melfas Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 16

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 2

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Melfas Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #17,890 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Melfas Inc. against Matisa Matériel Industriel S.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.0/100 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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