Where does Methode Electronics Malta Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Methode Electronics Malta Ltd. ranks #12,557 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 Methode Electronics Malta Ltd. hold?

Methode Electronics Malta Ltd. holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Methode Electronics Malta Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Methode Electronics Malta Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 47.6 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Methode Electronics Malta Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Methode Electronics Malta Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +33% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Methode Electronics Malta Ltd.'s patents?

Methode Electronics Malta Ltd.'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 Methode Electronics Malta Ltd. 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

Methode Electronics Malta Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Methode Electronics Malta Ltd. focus on?

Methode Electronics Malta Ltd.'s top technology area is G01L (Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure) with 12 patents, ranking #68 of 1,293 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 25 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: G01L (Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Methode ranks #12,557 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 25 technology areas.

#12,557
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.6/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12557 · Foreign Corporation #12,557 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,557/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Melissa & Doug
CPC-FOCUS G01L · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Melissa & Doug, 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 Methode’s 47.6 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 11.1 pts (23%) Velocity 8.9 pts (19%) Breadth 17.7 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Methode Malta · this assignee

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Methode's Innovation Score is 47.6/100 (top 18% 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 Methode?

Each dot is one of Methode’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). Methode’s own 16.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Methode's grants concentrate

Methode Electronics Malta Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under G01L (Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Methode sits between Melissa & Doug, LLC and Mindshow Inc..

Methode's three-year grant acceleration

Methode Electronics Malta Ltd. shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Melissa & Doug

24
Memic Innovative…

24
Mercator Medsyste…

24
Metaland

24
Meyer Sound Labor…

24
Micromaterials

24
Miics & Partners…

24
Mindshow

24
Methode Malta ◀

24

What this shows Methode holds 24 patents at rank #12,565, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Methode

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,565 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01L (Measuring Force)

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

Methode's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Methode Electronics Malta Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	8.3%
2016	2	8.3%
2017	1	4.2%
2018	2	8.3%
2019	2	8.3%
2020	2	8.3%
2021	2	8.3%
2022	1	4.2%
2023	3	12.5%
2024	4	16.7%
2025partial year	3	12.5%

Which technologies does Methode Electronics Malta Ltd. patent most?

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 12

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 8

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

B60D - Vehicle Connections 4

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 4

G05G - Control Devices OR Systems Insofar AS Characterised BY Mechanical Features Only 3

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

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

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

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 2

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 2

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, 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

B62M - Rider Propulsion OF Wheeled Vehicles OR SLEDGES; Powered Propulsion OF Sledges OR ; SINGLE-TRACK; CYCLES; Transmissions Specially Adapted FOR Such Vehicles 1

B62J - Cycle Saddles OR SEATS; Auxiliary Devices OR Accessories Specially Adapted TO Cycles AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Article Carriers OR Cycle Protectors 1

Top 15 of 25 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

Methode Electronics Malta Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Methode Electronics Malta Ltd.'s lead technology class is G01L (Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01L
Ranked #12,557 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Methode Electronics Malta Ltd. against Melissa & Doug, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.6/100 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

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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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