Where does Metawave Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Metawave Corporation ranks #6,815 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 Metawave Corporation hold?

Metawave Corporation holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Metawave Corporation's Innovation Score?

Metawave Corporation has an Innovation Score of 60.1 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Metawave Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Metawave Corporation's recent grant velocity is +4700% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Metawave Corporation's patents?

Metawave Corporation's patents average 18.6 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 Metawave Corporation 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

Metawave Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Metawave Corporation focus on?

Metawave Corporation's top technology area is 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) with 30 patents, ranking #202 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Metawave ranks #6,815 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 19 technology areas.

#6,815
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.1/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: +4700%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6815 · US Corporation #6,815 · 49 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,815/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Malvern Panalytical
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 19 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +4700% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Malvern Panalytical Limited (±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 Metawave’s 60.1 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 13.5 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (33%) Breadth 15.4 pts (26%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Metawave · this assignee

60
Cummins Power… · near

60
Kennametal · near

60
Landis+Gyr Technology · near

60
Sichuan University · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Metawave's Innovation Score is 60.1/100 (top 3% 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 Metawave?

Each dot is one of Metawave’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). Metawave’s own 18.6 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.

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

Where Metawave's grants concentrate

Metawave Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 61.2% of grants classified under 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 Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (18 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Metawave sits between Malvern Panalytical Limited and Nikon Vision Co., Ltd..

Metawave's three-year grant acceleration

Metawave Corporation shows 42 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Malvern Panalytic…

49
Maxpower Semicond…

49
Medtronic Monitor…

49
Medtronic PS Medi…

49
Mitsubishi Logisn…

49
Myongji Universit…

49
National Universi…

49
Nikon Vision

49
Metawave ◀

49

What this shows Metawave holds 49 patents at rank #6,815, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Metawave

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,815 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Metawave, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01S (Radio Direction-finding), Metawave ranks #202 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Landis+Gyr Technology, Inc. 60 Cummins Power Generation Inc. 60 Sichuan University 60 Kennametal Inc. 60

Metawave's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

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Metawave Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	2.0%
2021	6	12.2%
2022	14	28.6%
2023	18	36.7%
2024	10	20.4%

Which technologies does Metawave Corporation patent most?

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 30

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 29

H04B - Transmission 13

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 10

H03F - Amplifiers 3

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 2

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 2

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 2

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

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

H03G - Control OF Amplification 2

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 15 of 19 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

Metawave Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Metawave Corporation's lead technology class is 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 Arra), 61.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #6,815 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Metawave Corporation against Malvern Panalytical Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.1/100 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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