Where does National Taiwan University of Science and Technology rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), National Taiwan University of Science and Technology ranks #2,130 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is National Taiwan University of Science and Technology's Innovation Score?

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology has an Innovation Score of 60.3 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 Taiwan University of Science and Technology's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology's recent grant velocity is -25% 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 Taiwan University of Science and Technology's patents?

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology's patents average 9.9 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 Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Q: How many patents does National Taiwan University of Science and Technology hold?

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology holds 185 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 140 technology areas.

Q: What technology areas does National Taiwan University of Science and Technology focus on?

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 28 patents. Grants appear in 140 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 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 - 185 granted patents across 140 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, National ranks #2,130 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 185 patents across 140 technology areas.

#2,130
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.3/100): 9.9
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2130 · Foreign Corporation #2,130 · 185 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 185 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,130/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Boehringer Ingelheim…
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 140 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH (±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
Amsted Rail · near

60
National Taiwan… · this assignee

60
Philip Morris USA · near

60
Texas Tech Universit… · near

60
Westinghouse Electric · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows National's Innovation Score is 60.3/100 (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 Taiwan University of Science and Technology received 77 grants versus 102 in 2015–2019 (-25% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 29 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 9. Lead class Y02E accounts for 15.1% of the portfolio across 140 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH (#2,126) and PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc. (#2,134).

National's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology moved from 32 to 54 grants (1.69x 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 #317. See the growth leaderboard.

Boehringer Ingelh…

185
Canon Anelva

185
Cooler Master

185
Fujitsu Semicondu…

185
Ossur Iceland EHF

185
PETRÓLEO Brasilei…

185
Proterial

185
Perkinelmer Healt…

185
National Taiwan U… ◀

185

What this shows National holds 185 patents at rank #2,130, 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 #2,130 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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).

Texas Tech University System 60 Philip Morris USA Inc. 60 Westinghouse Electric Company LLC 60 Amsted Rail Company, Inc. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.9 here).

SK Planet Co., Ltd. 9.9 avg PSA Automobiles SA 9.9 avg Kowa Company, Ltd. 9.9 avg Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School 9.9 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 Taiwan University of Science and Technology patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	29	15.7%
2016	26	14.1%
2017	17	9.2%
2018	21	11.4%
2019	9	4.9%
2020	9	4.9%
2021	14	7.6%
2022	19	10.3%
2023	25	13.5%
2024	10	5.4%
2025partial year	6	3.2%

Which technologies does National Taiwan University of Science and Technology patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 28

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 25

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 15

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 15

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 14

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 14

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 12

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 11

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 10

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 8

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 8

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 8

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

Top 15 of 140 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,130

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

60.3 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 Taiwan University of Science and Technology's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 15.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #2,130 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare National Taiwan University of Science and Technology against Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.3/100 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

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