Where does PIC Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), PIC Corporation ranks #10,135 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 PIC Corporation hold?

PIC Corporation holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is PIC Corporation's Innovation Score?

PIC Corporation has an Innovation Score of 48.0 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is PIC Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

PIC Corporation's recent grant velocity is +167% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for PIC Corporation's patents?

PIC Corporation's patents average 8.0 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 PIC 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

PIC Corporation

Q: What technology areas does PIC Corporation focus on?

PIC Corporation's top technology area is A01M (Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants) with 12 patents, ranking #21 of 292 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: A01M (Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, PIC ranks #10,135 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 10 technology areas.

#10,135
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.0/100): 8.0
avg claims per patent: +167%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10135 · US Corporation #10,135 · 31 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,135/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH OCV Intellectual…
CPC-FOCUS A01M · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +167% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: OCV Intellectual Capital, LLC (±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 PIC’s 48.0 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 12.0 pts (25%) Velocity 20.0 pts (42%) Breadth 11.2 pts (23%) Claim depth 4.8 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
European Molecular… · near

48
Inter-university… · near

48
KEY Foundry · near

48
PIC · this assignee

48
Toyo Tire & Rubber · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows PIC's Innovation Score is 48.0/100 (top 17% 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 PIC?

Each dot is one of PIC’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). PIC’s own 8.0 claims/patent is at or below the 16.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where PIC's grants concentrate

PIC Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 38.7% of grants classified under A01M (Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, PIC sits between OCV Intellectual Capital, LLC and Pacira CryoTech, Inc..

PIC's three-year grant acceleration

PIC Corporation shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

OCV Intellectual…

31
Organovo

31
Ojai Retinal Tech…

31
Orbbec

31
PMC Industries

31
PPC Broadband Fib…

31
PRO Performance S…

31
Pacira Cryotech

31
PIC ◀

31

What this shows PIC holds 31 patents at rank #10,129, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near PIC

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,129 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01M (Catching)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for PIC, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01M (Catching), PIC ranks #21 of 292 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Inter-university Research Institute Coporation National Institutes OF Natural Sciences 48 KEY Foundry Co., Ltd. 48 Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. 48 European Molecular Biology Laboratory 48

PIC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

PIC Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	3.2%
2018	3	9.7%
2019	2	6.5%
2021	1	3.2%
2022	4	12.9%
2023	5	16.1%
2024	6	19.4%
2025partial year	9	29.0%

Which technologies does PIC Corporation patent most?

A01M - Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants 12

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 7

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 6

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 5

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 4

A44C - Personal Adornments, e.g. JEWELLERY; Coins 2

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 2

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 2

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

Top 10 of 10 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

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

PIC Corporation's lead technology class is A01M (Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants), 38.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01M
Ranked #10,135 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare PIC Corporation against OCV Intellectual Capital, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.0/100 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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