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Minimax Viking Research & Development GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 55 granted patents across 25 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: A62C (Fire-fighting).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Minimax ranks #6,176 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 55 patents across 25 technology areas.

#6,176
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 1%
by Innovation Score (64.9/100)
22.2
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6176 · Foreign Corporation #6,176 · 55 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

  • GRANTS-SMALL 55 grants
  • UPPER-Q #6,176/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Mahle Filter…
  • CPC-FOCUS A62C · 25 areas
  • INNOV-STRONG 64.9/100
  • CLAIMS-DENSE 22.2 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • SPAN-YRS 2020–2024 · 5y
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mahle Filter Systems Japan Corporation (±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 Minimax’s 64.9 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Minimax

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Minimax's Innovation Score is 64.9/100 (top 1% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Minimax?

Each dot is one of Minimax’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). Minimax’s own 22.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Minimax vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 54.955.055.05555.055.055.1 510152025 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc. - 55, 14.31Microport Orthope…Mahle Filter Systems Japan Corporation - 55, 8.33Mahle Filter Syst…Metso Minerals, Inc. - 55, 15.35Metso MineralsMicro Focus Software Inc. - 55, 15.4Micro Focus Softw…Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co., Ltd. - 55, 9.93Musashi Seimitsu…National University Corporation University of Toyama - 55, 12.38National Universi…Ocean University OF China - 55, 8.78Ocean University…Prysm, Inc. - 55, 20.02PrysmMinimax Viking Research & Development GmbH - 55, 22.24Minimax Viking Re…
Minimax vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Minimax's grants concentrate

Minimax Viking Research & Development GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 87.3% of grants classified under A62C (Fire-fighting). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (17 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Minimax sits between Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc. and Prysm, Inc..

Minimax's three-year grant acceleration

Minimax Viking Research & Development GmbH shows 47 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Who files at Minimax's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Minimax holds 55 patents at rank #6,175, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Minimax

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,175 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A62C (Fire-fighting)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Minimax, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A62C (Fire-fighting), Minimax ranks #6 of 253 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Pukyong National University Industry-University Cooperation Foundation 65 The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security 65 Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. 65 Biontech SE 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.2 here).

Saint-gobain Centre DE Recherches ET D'etudes Europeen 22.2 avg TeraDiode, Inc. 22.2 avg RF Micro Devices, Inc. 22.2 avg Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company 22.2 avg

Minimax's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

05101520 20202021202220232024 17
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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Minimax Viking Research & Development GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2020 6 10.9%
2021 2 3.6%
2022 13 23.6%
2023 17 30.9%
2024 17 30.9%

Which technologies does Minimax Viking Research & Development GmbH patent most?

Top 15 of 25 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

Minimax Viking Research & Development GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Minimax Viking Research & Development GmbH's lead technology class is A62C (Fire-fighting), 87.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A62C
  • Ranked #6,176 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Minimax Viking Research & Development GmbH against Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 64.9/100 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

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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

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.