Where does Metail Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Metail Limited ranks #17,897 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 Metail Limited hold?

Metail Limited holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2022, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Metail Limited's Innovation Score?

Metail Limited has an Innovation Score of 35.5 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Metail Limited focus on?

Metail Limited's top technology area is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General) with 16 patents, ranking #844 of 6,389 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Metail Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Metail Limited's recent grant velocity is -40% 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 Metail Limited's patents?

Metail Limited's patents average 26.3 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 Metail Limited 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

Metail Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2022. 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: G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Metail ranks #17,897 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 7 technology areas.

#17,897
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.5/100): 26.3
avg claims per patent: -40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17897 · Foreign Corporation #17,897 · 16 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,897/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mems Drive (NANJING)
CPC-NARROW G06T · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 26.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mems Drive (NANJING) Co., Ltd. (±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 Metail’s 35.5 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 9.8 pts (28%) Velocity 1.3 pts (4%) Breadth 9.4 pts (26%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (42%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Metail · this assignee

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Metail's Innovation Score is 35.5/100 (top 49% 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 Metail?

Each dot is one of Metail’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). Metail’s own 26.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Metail's grants concentrate

Metail Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Metail sits between Mems Drive (NANJING) Co., Ltd. and Mimik Technology Inc..

Metail's three-year grant acceleration

Metail Limited shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Mems Drive (Nanji…

16
Mercer University

16
Merck & CIE

16
Merits Health Pro…

16
Meyer Burger (Ger…

16
MH Acoustics

16
Miki Pulley

16
Mimik Technology

16
Metail ◀

16

What this shows Metail holds 16 patents at rank #17,879, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Metail

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,879 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation)

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

Metail's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 49% higher than 51% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Metail Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	12.5%
2018	8	50.0%
2020	3	18.8%
2021	2	12.5%
2022	1	6.3%

Which technologies does Metail Limited patent most?

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 16

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 11

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 11

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 9

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

Top 7 of 7 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

Metail Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Metail Limited's lead technology class is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06T
Ranked #17,897 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Metail Limited against Mems Drive (NANJING) Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.