Where does Pacific Industrial Development Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pacific Industrial Development Corporation ranks #14,841 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 Pacific Industrial Development Corporation hold?

Pacific Industrial Development Corporation holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Pacific Industrial Development Corporation's Innovation Score?

Pacific Industrial Development Corporation has an Innovation Score of 42.4 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Pacific Industrial Development Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pacific Industrial Development Corporation's recent grant velocity is +29% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Pacific Industrial Development Corporation's patents?

Pacific Industrial Development Corporation'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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Pacific Industrial Development Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Pacific Industrial Development Corporation focus on?

Pacific Industrial Development Corporation's top technology area is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus) with 15 patents, ranking #308 of 2,755 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Pacific Industrial Development 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 PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 13 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: B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pacific ranks #14,841 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 13 technology areas.

#14,841
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.4/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: +29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14841 · US Corporation #14,841 · 20 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,841/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pandrol
CPC-FOCUS B01J · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pandrol Limited (±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 Pacific’s 42.4 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 10.5 pts (25%) Velocity 9.3 pts (22%) Breadth 12.7 pts (30%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Pacific Industrial… · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Pacific's Innovation Score is 42.4/100 (top 31% 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 Pacific?

Each dot is one of Pacific’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). Pacific’s own 16.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Pacific's grants concentrate

Pacific Industrial Development Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Pacific sits between PMC-Sierra, Inc. and Paul Kristen, Inc..

Pacific's three-year grant acceleration

Pacific Industrial Development Corporation shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Pmc-sierra

20
Pocared Diagnosti…

20
Pola Pharma

20
Purpose

20
Pandrol

20
Pascal Engineering

20
Patentcloud

20
Paul Kristen

20
Pacific Industria… ◀

20

What this shows Pacific holds 20 patents at rank #14,850, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pacific

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,850 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes)

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

Pacific's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% 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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Pacific Industrial Development Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	5.0%
2017	1	5.0%
2018	2	10.0%
2019	3	15.0%
2020	1	5.0%
2021	1	5.0%
2022	1	5.0%
2023	1	5.0%
2024	5	25.0%
2025partial year	4	20.0%

Which technologies does Pacific Industrial Development Corporation patent most?

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 15

B01D - Separation 13

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 9

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 8

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 7

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 6

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 5

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 4

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

C01F - Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Pacific Industrial Development Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pacific Industrial Development Corporation's lead technology class is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus), 75% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01J
Ranked #14,841 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pacific Industrial Development Corporation against PMC-Sierra, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.4/100 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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