Where does Metis Design Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Metis Design Corporation ranks #24,794 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 Metis Design Corporation hold?

Metis Design Corporation holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Metis Design Corporation's Innovation Score?

Metis Design Corporation has an Innovation Score of 47.5 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 Metis Design Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Metis Design Corporation's recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Metis Design Corporation's patents?

Metis Design Corporation's patents average 27.2 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 Metis Design 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

Metis Design Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Metis Design Corporation focus on?

Metis Design Corporation's top technology area is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General) with 6 patents, ranking #508 of 2,247 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 18 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: 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, Metis ranks #24,794 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 18 technology areas.

#24,794
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.5/100): 27.2
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24794 · US Corporation #24,794 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,794/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Meetup
CPC-FOCUS H05B · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 27.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Meetup, Inc. (±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 Metis’s 47.5 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 8.6 pts (18%) Velocity 8.9 pts (19%) Breadth 15.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Corn Products… · near

47
Loci Controls · near

47
Metis Design · this assignee

47
Sentinel Labs Israel · near

47
Swep International AB · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Metis's Innovation Score is 47.5/100 (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 Metis?

Each dot is one of Metis’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). Metis’s own 27.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Metis's grants concentrate

Metis Design Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 54.5% 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 2020 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Metis sits between Meetup, Inc. and Micro Macro Assets, LLC.

Metis's three-year grant acceleration

Metis Design Corporation shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Meetup

11
Meike Technology…

11
Merge Labs

11
Meridian Innovati…

11
Mitegen

11
Miz

11
Michellia

11
Micro Macro Assets

11
Metis Design ◀

11

What this shows Metis holds 11 patents at rank #24,806, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Metis

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,806 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Metis, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05B (Electric Heating), Metis ranks #508 of 2,247 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Swep International AB 47 Sentinel Labs Israel Ltd. 47 Loci Controls, Inc. 47 Corn Products Development, Inc. 47

Metis's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 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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Metis Design Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	9.1%
2017	1	9.1%
2019	1	9.1%
2020	2	18.2%
2022	2	18.2%
2023	2	18.2%
2025partial year	2	18.2%

Which technologies does Metis Design Corporation patent most?

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 6

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 5

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 3

H01C - Resistors 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 2

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

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 2

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 1

F03G - Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like MOTORS; Mechanical-power Producing Devices OR Mechanisms, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR OR Using Energy Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 1

Top 15 of 18 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

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

Metis Design Corporation's lead technology class is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General), 54.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
Ranked #24,794 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Metis Design Corporation against Meetup, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.5/100 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.