Where does Montana Instruments Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Montana Instruments Corporation ranks #13,561 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 Montana Instruments Corporation hold?

Montana Instruments Corporation holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Montana Instruments Corporation's Innovation Score?

Montana Instruments Corporation has an Innovation Score of 43.3 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Montana Instruments Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Montana Instruments Corporation's recent grant velocity is +333% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Montana Instruments Corporation's patents?

Montana Instruments Corporation's patents average 14.3 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 Montana Instruments Corporation 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

Montana Instruments Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Montana Instruments Corporation focus on?

Montana Instruments Corporation's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 16 patents, ranking #956 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Montana ranks #13,561 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 18 technology areas.

#13,561
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.3/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: +333%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13561 · US Corporation #13,561 · 22 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,561/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mettler-Toledo…
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +333% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mettler-Toledo Safeline Ltd. (±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 Montana’s 43.3 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 10.8 pts (25%) Velocity 8.9 pts (21%) Breadth 15.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Montana Instruments · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Montana's Innovation Score is 43.3/100 (top 28% 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 Montana?

Each dot is one of Montana’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). Montana’s own 14.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Montana's grants concentrate

Montana Instruments Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 72.7% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Montana sits between Mettler-Toledo Safeline Ltd. and National Kaohsiung University OF Science AND Technology.

Montana's three-year grant acceleration

Montana Instruments Corporation shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Mettler-toledo Sa…

22
Mico Ceramics

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Microvax

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Mitaka Kohki

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Monteris Medical

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Motiv Power Syste…

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Montana Instrumen… ◀

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What this shows Montana holds 22 patents at rank #13,561, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Montana

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,561 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Montana's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Montana Instruments Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	4.5%
2017	1	4.5%
2019	1	4.5%
2020	1	4.5%
2021	4	18.2%
2022	3	13.6%
2024	5	22.7%
2025partial year	6	27.3%

Which technologies does Montana Instruments Corporation patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 16

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 8

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 4

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 2

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 2

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 2

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 2

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 2

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 2

Top 15 of 18 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

Montana Instruments Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Montana Instruments Corporation's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 72.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #13,561 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Montana Instruments Corporation against Mettler-Toledo Safeline Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.3/100 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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