Where does National Institute FOR Materials Science rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), National Institute FOR Materials Science ranks #1,449 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 National Institute FOR Materials Science hold?

National Institute FOR Materials Science holds 288 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 139 technology areas.

What is National Institute FOR Materials Science's Innovation Score?

National Institute FOR Materials Science has an Innovation Score of 60.1 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is National Institute FOR Materials Science's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

National Institute FOR Materials Science's recent grant velocity is -21% 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 National Institute FOR Materials Science's patents?

National Institute FOR Materials Science's patents average 12.8 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

National Institute FOR Materials Science

Q: What technology areas does National Institute FOR Materials Science focus on?

National Institute FOR Materials Science's top technology area is C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere) with 55 patents. Grants appear in 139 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the National Institute FOR Materials Science 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 PatentsView assignee record - 288 granted patents across 139 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, National ranks #1,449 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 288 patents across 139 technology areas.

#1,449
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.1/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: -21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1449 · Foreign Corporation #1,449 · 288 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 288 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,449/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ajou University…
CPC-WIDE C09K · 139 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ajou University Industry-academic Cooperation (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Beijing University… · near

60
Directv · near

60
National Institute… · this assignee

60
ZKW Group · near

60
Square · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows National's Innovation Score is 60.1/100 (top 3% 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.

How National's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, National Institute FOR Materials Science received 119 grants versus 150 in 2015–2019 (-21% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 36 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 19. Lead class C09K accounts for 19.1% of the portfolio across 139 subclasses. Volume neighbours: SeeScan, Inc. (#1,445) and EMD Millipore Corporation (#1,453).

National's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, National Institute FOR Materials Science moved from 68 to 80 grants (1.18x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #826. See the growth leaderboard.

Seescan

289
Ajou University I…

288
Julius Blum

288
Milliken &

288
Nifco

288
National Institut… ◀

288
Alnylam Pharmaceu…

287
Carl Freudenberg…

287
EMD Millipore

287

What this shows National holds 288 patents at rank #1,449, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near National

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,449 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for National, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

ZKW Group GmbH 60 Directv, LLC 60 Beijing University OF Technology 60 Inc Square, Co., Ltd 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.8 here).

Orange 12.8 avg Universite DE Nantes 12.8 avg Formlabs Inc. 12.8 avg Stabilus GmbH 12.8 avg

National's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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National Institute FOR Materials Science patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	36	12.5%
2016	28	9.7%
2017	35	12.2%
2018	22	7.6%
2019	29	10.1%
2020	20	6.9%
2021	19	6.6%
2022	24	8.3%
2023	22	7.6%
2024	34	11.8%
2025partial year	19	6.6%

Which technologies does National Institute FOR Materials Science patent most?

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 55

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 46

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 41

C22C - Alloys 39

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 37

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 33

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 32

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 28

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 24

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 24

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 23

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 21

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 20

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 19

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 18

Top 15 of 139 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,449

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

60.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

National Institute FOR Materials Science's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

National Institute FOR Materials Science's lead technology class is C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere), 19.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09K
Ranked #1,449 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare National Institute FOR Materials Science against SeeScan, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.1/100 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

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