Where does Ordnance Survey Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ordnance Survey Limited ranks #10,420 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 Ordnance Survey Limited hold?

Ordnance Survey Limited holds 30 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Ordnance Survey Limited's Innovation Score?

Ordnance Survey Limited 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 Ordnance Survey Limited focus on?

Ordnance Survey Limited's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 21 patents, ranking #1,973 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ordnance Survey Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ordnance Survey Limited's recent grant velocity is +700% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ordnance Survey Limited's patents?

Ordnance Survey Limited's patents average 18.4 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 Ordnance Survey Limited 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

Ordnance Survey Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 30 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ordnance ranks #10,420 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 30 patents across 14 technology areas.

#10,420
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.9/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +700%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10420 · Foreign Corporation #10,420 · 30 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 30 grants
UPPER-Q #10,420/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Office Kick
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +700% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Office Kick, 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 Ordnance’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 11.9 pts (28%) Velocity 5.7 pts (14%) Breadth 13.2 pts (32%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GE Sensing &… · near

42
Ordnance Survey · this assignee

42
Richard Wolf · near

42
Sanford-Burnham… · near

42
Ubright Optronics · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ordnance'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 Ordnance?

Each dot is one of Ordnance’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). Ordnance’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ordnance's grants concentrate

Ordnance Survey Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 70% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Ordnance sits between Oxea GMBH and Poly Medicure Limited.

Ordnance's three-year grant acceleration

Ordnance Survey Limited shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Oxea

30
Office Kick

30
Olivia Garden Int…

30
Optiz

30
Orthovita

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P-two Industries

30
Petal Cloud Techn…

30
Poly Medicure

30
Ordnance Survey ◀

30

What this shows Ordnance holds 30 patents at rank #10,421, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ordnance

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,421 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ordnance, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Ordnance ranks #1,973 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Richard Wolf GMBH 42 GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies GmbH 42 Ubright Optronics Corporation 42 Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute 42

Ordnance'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 · 2018–2025

Grants by year

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

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Ordnance Survey Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	3.3%
2019	2	6.7%
2020	5	16.7%
2021	7	23.3%
2022	8	26.7%
2023	4	13.3%
2025partial year	3	10.0%

Which technologies does Ordnance Survey Limited patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 21

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 12

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 12

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 3

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 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Ordnance Survey Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ordnance Survey Limited's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 70% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #10,420 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ordnance Survey Limited against Oxea GMBH, 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.