Where does Metrasens Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Metrasens Limited ranks #20,076 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 Metrasens Limited hold?

Metrasens Limited holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Metrasens Limited's Innovation Score?

Metrasens Limited has an Innovation Score of 29.8 out of 100 (32nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Metrasens Limited focus on?

Metrasens Limited's top technology area is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags) with 14 patents, ranking #72 of 835 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

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

Metrasens Limited's recent grant velocity is -37% 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 Metrasens Limited's patents?

Metrasens Limited's patents average 15.4 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 Metrasens 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

Metrasens Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Metrasens ranks #20,076 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 7 technology areas.

#20,076
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 32nd percentile
by Innovation Score (29.8/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20076 · Foreign Corporation #20,076 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,076/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mercer International
CPC-NARROW G01V · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mercer International 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 Metrasens’s 29.8 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 9.4 pts (31%) Velocity 1.9 pts (6%) Breadth 9.4 pts (31%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Metrasens · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Metrasens's Innovation Score is 29.8/100 (32nd percentile 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 Metrasens?

Each dot is one of Metrasens’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). Metrasens’s own 15.4 claims/patent is at or below the 17.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Metrasens's grants concentrate

Metrasens Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Metrasens sits between Mercer International Inc. and Michelman, Inc..

Metrasens's three-year grant acceleration

Metrasens Limited shows 2 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.

Mercer Internatio…

14
Merlin Labs

14
Mestek Machinery

14
Metamodix

14
Metrospec Technol…

14
Meyer Products

14
Mina Therapeutics

14
Michelman

14
Metrasens ◀

14

What this shows Metrasens holds 14 patents at rank #20,093, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Metrasens

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,093 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01V (Geophysics)

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

Metrasens's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 32nd percentile higher than 32% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Metrasens Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	7.1%
2018	3	21.4%
2019	4	28.6%
2020	2	14.3%
2021	1	7.1%
2022	1	7.1%
2023	1	7.1%
2025partial year	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Metrasens Limited patent most?

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 14

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 10

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 7 of 7 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

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

Metrasens Limited's lead technology class is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01V
Ranked #20,076 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Metrasens Limited against Mercer International Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.8/100 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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