Where does Qinetiq Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Qinetiq Limited ranks #3,543 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 Qinetiq Limited hold?

Qinetiq Limited holds 104 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 86 technology areas.

What is Qinetiq Limited's Innovation Score?

Qinetiq Limited has an Innovation Score of 53.4 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Qinetiq Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Qinetiq Limited's recent grant velocity is -35% 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 Qinetiq Limited's patents?

Qinetiq Limited's patents average 15.9 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.

How is the Qinetiq 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

Qinetiq Limited

Q: What technology areas does Qinetiq Limited focus on?

Qinetiq Limited's top technology area is 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) with 20 patents. Grants appear in 86 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 104 granted patents across 86 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Qinetiq ranks #3,543 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 104 patents across 86 technology areas.

#3,543
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.4/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: -35%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3543 · Foreign Corporation #3,543 · 104 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 104 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,543/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH People ai
CPC-WIDE G01S · 86 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -35% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: People.ai, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Compagnie Plastic… · near

53
CVS Pharmacy · near

53
Qinetiq · this assignee

53
Sanechips Technology · near

53
SiTime · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Qinetiq's Innovation Score is 53.4/100 (top 9% 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 Qinetiq's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Qinetiq Limited received 39 grants versus 60 in 2015–2019 (-35% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 16 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 3. Lead class G01S accounts for 19.2% of the portfolio across 86 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Promerus, LLC (#3,539) and Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd. (#3,547).

Qinetiq's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Qinetiq Limited moved from 36 to 15 grants (0.42x 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 #2,850. See the growth leaderboard.

Promerus

104
Proton World Inte…

104
People ai

104
Pilz & KG

104
Schneider Electri…

104
Shaanxi Universit…

104
Stamicarbon B V

104
Sunonwealth Elect…

104
Qinetiq ◀

104

What this shows Qinetiq holds 104 patents at rank #3,543, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Qinetiq

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,543 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

CVS Pharmacy, Inc. 53 Compagnie Plastic Omnium SE 53 Sanechips Technology Co., Ltd. 53 SiTime Corporation 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.9 here).

Solvay Specialty Polymers USA, LLC 15.9 avg Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A. 15.9 avg Yuhan Corporation 15.9 avg Carl Zeiss Meditec AG 15.9 avg

Qinetiq's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Qinetiq Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	15.4%
2016	14	13.5%
2017	9	8.7%
2018	9	8.7%
2019	12	11.5%
2020	12	11.5%
2021	12	11.5%
2022	8	7.7%
2023	3	2.9%
2024	4	3.8%
2025partial year	5	4.8%

Which technologies does Qinetiq Limited patent most?

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 20

F16H - Gearing 12

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 12

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 11

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 10

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 10

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 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 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 6

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 6

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 6

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 5

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

H04B - Transmission 5

Top 15 of 86 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,543

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

53.4 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

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

Qinetiq Limited's lead technology class is 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 Arra), 19.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #3,543 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Qinetiq Limited against Promerus, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.4/100 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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