Where does Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC ranks #14,782 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 Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC hold?

Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC's Innovation Score?

Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC has an Innovation Score of 35.3 out of 100 (top 50% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC focus on?

Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC's top technology area is G01T (Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation) with 17 patents, ranking #32 of 460 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC's patents?

Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC's patents average 27.4 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 Minnesota Imaging and Engineering 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

Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. 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: G01T (Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Minnesota ranks #14,782 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 7 technology areas.

#14,782
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 50%
by Innovation Score (35.3/100): 27.4
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14782 · US Corporation #14,782 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,782/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Metabasis Therapeutics
CPC-NARROW G01T · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 27.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Metabasis Therapeutics, 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 Minnesota’s 35.3 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 10.5 pts (30%) Velocity 0.4 pts (1%) Breadth 9.4 pts (27%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (42%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Minnesota Imaging… · this assignee

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Minnesota's Innovation Score is 35.3/100 (top 50% 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 Minnesota?

Each dot is one of Minnesota’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). Minnesota’s own 27.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Minnesota's grants concentrate

Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 85% of grants classified under G01T (Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Minnesota sits between Metabasis Therapeutics, Inc. and Montag Investments, LLC.

Minnesota's three-year grant acceleration

Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Metabasis Therape…

20
Microcontinuum

20
Microsemi Storage…

20
Milestone AV

20
Mitobridge

20
Modern Technology…

20
Monolith Semicond…

20
Montag Investments

20
Minnesota Imaging… ◀

20

What this shows Minnesota holds 20 patents at rank #14,783, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Minnesota

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,783 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01T (Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation)

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

Minnesota's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 50% higher than 50% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

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

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Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	10.0%
2019	10	50.0%
2020	2	10.0%
2021	5	25.0%
2024	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC patent most?

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 17

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 11

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 9

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

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

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 1

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC's lead technology class is G01T (Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation), 85% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01T
Ranked #14,782 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Minnesota Imaging and Engineering LLC against Metabasis Therapeutics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.3/100 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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