Where does Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited ranks #41,679 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 Precision Instrument Company Limited's Innovation Score?

Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited has an Innovation Score of 24.5 out of 100 (15th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited.

What does claim depth mean for Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited's patents?

Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited'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 Precision Instrument Company Limited

Q: How many patents does Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited hold?

Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2024, spanning 2 technology areas.

Q: What technology areas does Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited focus on?

Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited's top technology area is G01G (Weighing) with 6 patents, ranking #43 of 427 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company 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 PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2024. 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: G01G (Weighing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mettler ranks #41,679 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 2 technology areas.

#41,679
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 15th percentile
by Innovation Score (24.5/100): 10.2
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R41679 · Foreign Corporation #41,679 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #41,679/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH MetrioPharm
CPC-NARROW G01G · 2 areas
INNOV-THIN 24.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2024 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: MetrioPharm AG (±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’s 24.5 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 6.7 pts (27%) Velocity 6.7 pts (27%) Breadth 5.0 pts (20%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Mettler Toledo… · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Mettler's Innovation Score is 24.5/100 (15th 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 Mettler?

Each dot is one of Mettler’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’s own 10.2 claims/patent is at or below the 16.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Mettler's grants concentrate

Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G01G (Weighing). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Mettler sits between MetrioPharm AG and MicronVision Corp..

Mettler's three-year grant acceleration

Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited shows 3 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.

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What this shows Mettler holds 6 patents at rank #41,743, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mettler

By rank, the assignees closest to #41,743 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01G (Weighing)

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

Mettler's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 15th percentile higher than 15% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2024

Grants by year

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

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Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	3	50.0%
2022	1	16.7%
2024	2	33.3%

Which technologies does Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited patent most?

G01G - Weighing 6

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

Top 2 of 2 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 Precision Instrument Company Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited's lead technology class is G01G (Weighing), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01G
Ranked #41,679 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited against MetrioPharm AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 24.5/100 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.