Where does Milestone S.r.L. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Milestone S.r.L. ranks #26,860 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 Milestone S.r.L. hold?

Milestone S.r.L. holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2023, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Milestone S.r.L.'s Innovation Score?

Milestone S.r.L. has an Innovation Score of 55.2 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Milestone S.r.L. focus on?

Milestone S.r.L.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 8 patents, ranking #1,791 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Milestone S.r.L.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Milestone S.r.L.'s recent grant velocity is +300% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Milestone S.r.L.'s patents?

Milestone S.r.L.'s patents average 18.5 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 Milestone S.r.L. 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

Milestone S.r.L.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2023. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Milestone ranks #26,860 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 20 technology areas.

#26,860
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.2/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent: +300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26860 · Foreign Corporation #26,860 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,860/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Micro Interventional…
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Micro Interventional Devices, Inc. (±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 Milestone’s 55.2 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 8.3 pts (15%) Velocity 20.0 pts (36%) Breadth 15.8 pts (29%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Milestone S r L · this assignee

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Milestone's Innovation Score is 55.2/100 (top 7% 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 Milestone?

Each dot is one of Milestone’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). Milestone’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Milestone's grants concentrate

Milestone S.r.L. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Milestone sits between Micro Interventional Devices, Inc. and Mirama Service Inc..

Milestone's three-year grant acceleration

Milestone S.r.L. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Micro Interventio…

10
Microport Soaring…

10
Microtek Medical

10
Milbank Manufactu…

10
Minetec

10
Miniature Precisi…

10
Minnetronix Neuro

10
Mirama Service

10
Milestone S r L ◀

10

What this shows Milestone holds 10 patents at rank #26,816, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Milestone

By rank, the assignees closest to #26,816 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Milestone's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2023

Grants by year

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

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Milestone S.r.L. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	20.0%
2021	2	20.0%
2022	2	20.0%
2023	4	40.0%

Which technologies does Milestone S.r.L. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 8

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 4

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 2

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 2

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 2

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

C10B - Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Production OF GAS, Coke, TAR, OR Similar Materials 1

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 1

B01D - Separation 1

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 1

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 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

Milestone S.r.L.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Milestone S.r.L.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #26,860 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Milestone S.r.L. against Micro Interventional Devices, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.2/100 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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