Where does Middle Chart, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Middle Chart, LLC ranks #5,097 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 Middle Chart, LLC hold?

Middle Chart, LLC holds 68 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Middle Chart, LLC's Innovation Score?

Middle Chart, LLC has an Innovation Score of 46.0 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Middle Chart, LLC focus on?

Middle Chart, LLC's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 68 patents, ranking #744 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Middle Chart, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Middle Chart, LLC's recent grant velocity is +1933% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Middle Chart, LLC's patents?

Middle Chart, LLC's patents average 19.8 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 Middle Chart, LLC 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

Middle Chart, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 68 granted patents across 17 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Middle ranks #5,097 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 68 patents across 17 technology areas.

#5,097
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (46.0/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: +1933%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5097 · US Corporation #5,097 · 68 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 68 grants
UPPER-Q #5,097/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Maquet Cardiovascular
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +1933% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Maquet Cardiovascular LLC (±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 Middle’s 46.0 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 14.6 pts (32%) Velocity 4.9 pts (11%) Breadth 14.6 pts (32%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Avintiv Specialty… · near

46
Future Motion · near

46
Middle Chart · this assignee

46
Mitsubishi Paper Mills · near

46
The Eastern · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Middle's Innovation Score is 46.0/100 (top 22% 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 Middle?

Each dot is one of Middle’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). Middle’s own 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Middle's grants concentrate

Middle Chart, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (19 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2019. By volume, Middle sits between Maquet Cardiovascular LLC and OSG Corporation.

Middle's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Middle Chart, LLC moved from 37 to 27 grants (0.73x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Maquet Cardiovasc…

68
Medizinische Hoch…

68
Medtronic Holding…

68
Merz Pharma & Kgaa

68
Nelson Irrigation

68
Nutrition & Biosc…

68
Ningbo University

68
OSG

68
Middle Chart ◀

68

What this shows Middle holds 68 patents at rank #5,095, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Middle

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,095 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Middle, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Middle ranks #744 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited 46 The Eastern Company 46 Future Motion, Inc. 46 Avintiv Specialty Materials Inc. 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.8 here).

Ixia 19.8 avg Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. 19.8 avg Empire Technology Development LLC 19.8 avg CVDevices, LLC 19.8 avg

Middle's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% 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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Middle Chart, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	3	4.4%
2020	15	22.1%
2021	19	27.9%
2022	8	11.8%
2023	7	10.3%
2024	12	17.6%
2025partial year	4	5.9%

Which technologies does Middle Chart, LLC patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 68

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 63

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 60

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 57

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 17

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 16

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 15

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

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 8

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 5

G16Y - Information AND Communication Technology Specially Adapted FOR THE Internet OF Things [IoT] 4

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 2

Top 15 of 17 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Middle Chart, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Middle Chart, LLC's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #5,097 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Middle Chart, LLC against Maquet Cardiovascular LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.0/100 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.