Where does Mips AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mips AB ranks #9,824 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 Mips AB hold?

Mips AB holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Mips AB's Innovation Score?

Mips AB 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%).

What technology areas does Mips AB focus on?

Mips AB's top technology area is A42B (HATS; Head Coverings) with 31 patents, ranking #5 of 278 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Mips AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mips AB's recent grant velocity is +250% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Mips AB's patents?

Mips AB's patents average 16.3 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 Mips AB 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

Mips AB

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: A42B (HATS; Head Coverings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mips ranks #9,824 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 8 technology areas.

#9,824
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.9/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: +250%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9824 · Foreign Corporation #9,824 · 32 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,824/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH LedEngin
CPC-NARROW A42B · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +250% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: LedEngin, 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 Mips’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 12.1 pts (29%) Velocity 10.0 pts (24%) Breadth 10.0 pts (24%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Koganei · near

42
Mips AB · this assignee

42
Novus International · near

42
Rion · near

42
Senju Pharmaceutical · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mips'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 Mips?

Each dot is one of Mips’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). Mips’s own 16.3 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.

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

Where Mips's grants concentrate

Mips AB is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 96.9% of grants classified under A42B (HATS; Head Coverings). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Mips sits between LedEngin, Inc. and Mati Therapeutics, Inc..

Mips's three-year grant acceleration

Mips AB shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Ledengin

32
Mastercard Mobile…

32
Medidata Solutions

32
Meiko Maschinenba…

32
Mitsubishi Heavy…

32
Mitsubishi Jidosh…

32
Maricap Oy

32
Mati Therapeutics

32
Mips AB ◀

32

What this shows Mips holds 32 patents at rank #9,817, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mips

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,817 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A42B (HATS)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mips, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A42B (HATS), Mips ranks #5 of 278 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Novus International, Inc. 42 Senju Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 42 Rion Co., Ltd. 42 Koganei Corporation 42

Mips'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 · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Mips AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	3.1%
2018	1	3.1%
2019	4	12.5%
2020	3	9.4%
2021	3	9.4%
2022	3	9.4%
2023	6	18.8%
2024	6	18.8%
2025partial year	5	15.6%

Which technologies does Mips AB patent most?

A42B - HATS; Head Coverings 31

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 4

A44B - Buttons, Pins, Buckles, Slide Fasteners, OR THE Like 3

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Mips AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mips AB's lead technology class is A42B (HATS; Head Coverings), 96.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A42B
Ranked #9,824 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mips AB against LedEngin, Inc., 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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