Where does Metal Raptor Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Metal Raptor Inc. ranks #11,004 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 Metal Raptor Inc. hold?

Metal Raptor Inc. holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Metal Raptor Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Metal Raptor Inc. has an Innovation Score of 55.7 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Metal Raptor Inc. focus on?

Metal Raptor Inc.'s top technology area is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor) with 25 patents, ranking #38 of 545 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Metal Raptor Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Metal Raptor Inc.'s patents?

Metal Raptor Inc.'s patents average 16.6 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 Metal Raptor 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 US Corporation

Metal Raptor Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Metal ranks #11,004 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 16 technology areas.

#11,004
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.7/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11004 · US Corporation #11,004 · 28 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #11,004/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Manicka Institute
CPC-FOCUS B64U · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Manicka Institute LLC (±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 Metal’s 55.7 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 11.6 pts (21%) Velocity 20.0 pts (36%) Breadth 14.1 pts (25%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Thrive Bioscience · near

56
Metal Raptor · this assignee

56
Shanghai Yanfeng… · near

56
Skyworks Global PTE · near

56
The University of… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Metal's Innovation Score is 55.7/100 (top 7% 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 Metal?

Each dot is one of Metal’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). Metal’s own 16.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Metal's grants concentrate

Metal Raptor Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 89.3% of grants classified under B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (15 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2024. By volume, Metal sits between Manicka Institute LLC and Nanjing Forestry University.

Metal's three-year grant acceleration

Metal Raptor Inc. shows 26 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Manicka Institute

28
Measurement Incor…

28
Medizinische Univ…

28
Mersana Therapeut…

28
Mirka

28
Mux

28
Mylan Laboratories

28
Nanjing Forestry…

28
Metal Raptor ◀

28

What this shows Metal holds 28 patents at rank #11,008, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Metal

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,008 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV])

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Metal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]), Metal ranks #38 of 545 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

The University of Sheffield 56 Skyworks Global PTE. Ltd. 56 Shanghai Yanfeng Jinqiao Automotive Trim Systems Co. Ltd. 56 Thrive Bioscience, Inc. 56

Metal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Metal Raptor Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	15	53.6%
2023	8	28.6%
2024	3	10.7%
2025partial year	2	7.1%

Which technologies does Metal Raptor Inc. patent most?

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 25

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 25

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 12

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 10

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 8

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

H04B - Transmission 3

B64F - Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide 3

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 2

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 1

Top 15 of 16 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

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

Metal Raptor Inc.'s lead technology class is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor), 89.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64U
Ranked #11,004 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Metal Raptor Inc. against Manicka Institute LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.7/100 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.