Where does Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. ranks #7,044 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 54.5 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +3600% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.'s patents average 10.2 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Q: How many patents does Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. hold?

Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. holds 47 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

Q: How is the Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., 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 PatentsView assignee record - 47 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G01G (Weighing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mettler-toledo ranks #7,044 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 47 patents across 18 technology areas.

#7,044
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.5/100): 10.2
avg claims per patent: +3600%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7044 · Foreign Corporation #7,044 · 47 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 47 grants
UPPER-Q #7,044/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Make Great Sales
CPC-FOCUS G01G · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +3600% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Make Great Sales 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 Mettler-toledo’s 54.5 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 13.4 pts (25%) Velocity 20.0 pts (37%) Breadth 15.0 pts (28%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Guangzhou Shiyuan… · near

54
Konecranes Global · near

54
Mettler-Toledo… · this assignee

54
Sekisui Polymatech · near

54
The University of… · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mettler-toledo's Innovation Score is 54.5/100 (top 8% 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 Mettler-toledo?

Each dot is one of Mettler-toledo’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). Mettler-toledo’s own 10.2 claims/patent is at or below the 16.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Mettler-toledo's grants concentrate

Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 59.6% of grants classified under G01G (Weighing). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Mettler-toledo sits between Make Great Sales Limited and Nook Digital, LLC.

Mettler-toledo's three-year grant acceleration

Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. shows 30 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.

Make Great Sales

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47
Maxar Space

47
Mccormick &

47
Mevion Medical Sy…

47
Microchip Technol…

47
Neuboron Medtech

47
Nook Digital

47
Mettler-toledo In… ◀

47

What this shows Mettler-Toledo holds 47 patents at rank #7,046, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mettler-Toledo

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,046 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01G (Weighing)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Mettler-Toledo's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mettler-Toledo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01G (Weighing), Mettler-Toledo ranks #6 of 427 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

The University of Nottingham 54 Guangzhou Shiyuan Electronic Technology Company Limited 54 Sekisui Polymatech Co., Ltd. 54 Konecranes Global Corporation 54

Mettler-toledo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	2.1%
2020	2	4.3%
2021	5	10.6%
2022	5	10.6%
2023	10	21.3%
2024	15	31.9%
2025partial year	9	19.1%

Which technologies does Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. patent most?

G01G - Weighing 28

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 3

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 3

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

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

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

H03K - Pulse Technique 1

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

H04B - Transmission 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

H04J - Multiplex Communication 1

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 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

Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G01G (Weighing), 59.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01G
Ranked #7,044 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. against Make Great Sales Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.5/100 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.