Where does Merlot Laboratories Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Merlot Laboratories Inc. ranks #48,681 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 Merlot Laboratories Inc. hold?

Merlot Laboratories Inc. holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Merlot Laboratories Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Merlot Laboratories Inc. has an Innovation Score of 27.5 out of 100 (24th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Merlot Laboratories Inc.'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 Merlot Laboratories Inc.'s patents?

Merlot Laboratories Inc.'s patents average 18.8 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 Merlot Laboratories 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

Merlot Laboratories Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Merlot Laboratories Inc. focus on?

Merlot Laboratories Inc.'s top technology area is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General) with 4 patents, ranking #712 of 2,247 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Merlot ranks #48,681 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 8 technology areas.

#48,681
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 24th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.5/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R48681 · Foreign Corporation #48,681 · 5 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #48,681/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mequ A/S
CPC-NARROW H05B · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mequ A/S (±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 Merlot’s 27.5 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 6.2 pts (23%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (41%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
MTI Wireless Edge · near

27
Arup Ventures · near

27
Foshan Tuorun… · near

27
Merlot Laboratories · this assignee

27
Scale-Tec · near

27
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Merlot's Innovation Score is 27.5/100 (24th 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 Merlot?

Each dot is one of Merlot’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). Merlot’s own 18.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Merlot's grants concentrate

Merlot Laboratories Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Merlot sits between Mequ A/S and Metal Improvement Company, LLC.

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What this shows Merlot holds 5 patents at rank #48,602, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Merlot

By rank, the assignees closest to #48,602 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Merlot, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05B (Electric Heating), Merlot ranks #712 of 2,247 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (27 here).

Scale-Tec, Ltd. 27 Arup Ventures Limited 27 Foshan Tuorun Precision Hardware Technology Co., Ltd 27 MTI Wireless Edge Ltd. 27

Merlot's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 24th percentile higher than 24% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

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

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Merlot Laboratories Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	20.0%
2017	2	40.0%
2019	2	40.0%

Which technologies does Merlot Laboratories Inc. patent most?

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 4

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 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

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

Merlot Laboratories Inc.'s lead technology class is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
Ranked #48,681 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Merlot Laboratories Inc. against Mequ A/S, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.5/100 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

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