Where does Michigan Technological University rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Michigan Technological University ranks #8,074 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 Michigan Technological University hold?

Michigan Technological University holds 40 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 67 technology areas.

What is Michigan Technological University's Innovation Score?

Michigan Technological University has an Innovation Score of 49.2 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Michigan Technological University's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Michigan Technological University's recent grant velocity is -27% 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 Michigan Technological University's patents?

Michigan Technological University's patents average 12.3 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 Michigan Technological University 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

Michigan Technological University

Q: What technology areas does Michigan Technological University focus on?

Michigan Technological University's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 13 patents, ranking #1,009 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 67 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 40 granted patents across 67 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Michigan ranks #8,074 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 40 patents across 67 technology areas.

#8,074
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.2/100): 12.3
avg claims per patent: -27%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8074 · US Corporation #8,074 · 40 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 40 grants
UPPER-Q #8,074/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Locus Robotics
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 67 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -27% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Locus Robotics Corp. (±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 Michigan’s 49.2 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 12.8 pts (26%) Velocity 4.0 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (51%) Claim depth 7.4 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Michigan Technologic… · this assignee

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Mobile Industrial… · near

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Sense Labs · near

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Cambrios Film Solutons · near

49
Maquet · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Michigan's Innovation Score is 49.2/100 (top 15% 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 Michigan?

Each dot is one of Michigan’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). Michigan’s own 12.3 claims/patent is at or below the 12.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Michigan's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Michigan Technological University received 16 grants versus 22 in 2015–2019 (-27% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 8 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 1. Lead class Y02E accounts for 32.5% of the portfolio across 67 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Locus Robotics Corp. (#8,066) and MacKay Memorial Hospital (#8,074).

Michigan's three-year grant acceleration

Michigan Technological University shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Locus Robotics

40
M&R Printing Equi…

40
Mcwane

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Measurement Speci…

40
Mitsubishi Electr…

40
MKW Alloy

40
MRI Interventions

40
Mackay Memorial H…

40
Michigan Technolo… ◀

40

What this shows Michigan holds 40 patents at rank #8,070, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Michigan

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,070 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Michigan, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Michigan ranks #1,009 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Sense Labs, Inc. 49 Mobile Industrial Robots A/S 49 Maquet GMBH 49 Cambrios Film Solutons Corporation 49

Michigan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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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Michigan Technological University patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	7.5%
2016	3	7.5%
2017	5	12.5%
2018	3	7.5%
2019	8	20.0%
2020	2	5.0%
2021	5	12.5%
2022	3	7.5%
2023	1	2.5%
2024	5	12.5%
2025partial year	2	5.0%

Which technologies does Michigan Technological University patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 13

F03B - Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids 8

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 7

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 3

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 3

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 3

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 3

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 3

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 3

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 2

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 2

Top 15 of 67 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

Michigan Technological University's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Michigan Technological University's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 32.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #8,074 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Michigan Technological University against Locus Robotics Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.2/100 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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