Where does Micware Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Micware Co., Ltd. ranks #10,685 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 Micware Co., Ltd. hold?

Micware Co., Ltd. holds 29 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Micware Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Micware Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 41.9 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Micware Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Micware Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +2000% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Micware Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Micware Co., Ltd.'s patents average 7.9 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 Micware 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Micware Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Micware Co., Ltd. focus on?

Micware Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry) with 17 patents, ranking #179 of 1,814 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 29 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Micware ranks #10,685 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 29 patents across 20 technology areas.

#10,685
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.9/100): 7.9
avg claims per patent: +2000%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10685 · Foreign Corporation #10,685 · 29 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 29 grants
UPPER-Q #10,685/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Matscitechno Licensing
CPC-FOCUS G01C · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +2000% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Matscitechno Licensing Company (±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 Micware’s 41.9 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 11.7 pts (28%) Velocity 9.6 pts (23%) Breadth 15.8 pts (38%) Claim depth 4.7 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Apollo Endosurgery · near

42
Micware · this assignee

42
Ultragenyx Pharmaceu… · near

42
Zhejiang Hisun… · near

42
GE Vernova Infrastru… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Micware's Innovation Score is 41.9/100 (top 32% 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 Micware?

Each dot is one of Micware’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). Micware’s own 7.9 claims/patent is at or below the 14.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Micware's grants concentrate

Micware Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 58.6% of grants classified under G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Micware sits between Matscitechno Licensing Company and Muehlbauer GMBH & Co. KG.

Micware's three-year grant acceleration

Micware Co., Ltd. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Matscitechno Lice…

29
Mbte Holdings Swe…

29
Mellanox Silicon…

29
Metropolitan Life…

29
Milgard Manufactu…

29
Molo Design

29
MSC Software

29
Muehlbauer & KG

29
Micware ◀

29

What this shows Micware holds 29 patents at rank #10,681, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Micware

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,681 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01C (Measuring Distances)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Micware, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01C (Measuring Distances), Micware ranks #179 of 1,814 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. 42 Apollo Endosurgery, Inc. 42 Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 42 GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC 42

Micware's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Micware Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	3.4%
2020	4	13.8%
2021	4	13.8%
2022	6	20.7%
2023	3	10.3%
2024	4	13.8%
2025partial year	7	24.1%

Which technologies does Micware Co., Ltd. patent most?

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 17

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 13

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 8

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 7

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 5

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 4

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 3

E01C - Construction OF, OR Surfaces FOR, Roads, Sports Grounds, OR THE LIKE; Machines OR Auxiliary Tools FOR Construction OR Repair 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 1

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Micware Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Micware Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry), 58.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01C
Ranked #10,685 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Micware Co., Ltd. against Matscitechno Licensing Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.9/100 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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