Where does Swift Navigation, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Swift Navigation, Inc. ranks #8,931 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 Swift Navigation, Inc. hold?

Swift Navigation, Inc. holds 36 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Swift Navigation, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Swift Navigation, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.5 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Swift Navigation, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Swift Navigation, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +1500% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Swift Navigation, Inc.'s patents?

Swift Navigation, Inc.'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 Swift Navigation, Inc. 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

Swift Navigation, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Swift Navigation, Inc. focus on?

Swift Navigation, Inc.'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 36 patents, ranking #178 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 36 granted patents across 2 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: 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, Swift ranks #8,931 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 2 technology areas.

#8,931
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.5/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +1500%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8931 · US Corporation #8,931 · 36 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 36 grants
UPPER-Q #8,931/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Siemens Mobility…
CPC-NARROW G01S · 2 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +1500% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Siemens Mobility Austria 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.

How Swift’s 48.5 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 12.5 pts (26%) Velocity 20.0 pts (41%) Breadth 5.0 pts (10%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kitagawa Industries · near

49
Shanghai IC R&D Center · near

49
Swift Navigation · this assignee

49
Ultrahaptics IP · near

49
Zygo · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Swift's Innovation Score is 48.5/100 (top 16% 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 Swift?

Each dot is one of Swift’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). Swift’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Swift's grants concentrate

Swift Navigation, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Swift sits between Siemens Mobility Austria GmbH and Tecmen Electronics Co., Ltd.

Swift's three-year grant acceleration

Swift Navigation, Inc. shows 25 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Siemens Mobility…

36
Snap-on Equipment…

36
Soundhound AI IP

36
Sunedison Semicon…

36
Syntegon Technolo…

36
Synthetic Biologi…

36
Talari Networks I…

36
Tecmen

36
Swift Navigation ◀

36

What this shows Swift holds 36 patents at rank #8,931, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Swift

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,931 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Swift, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01S (Radio Direction-finding), Swift ranks #178 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Zygo Corporation 49 Ultrahaptics IP Ltd 49 Shanghai IC R&D Center Co., Ltd. 49 Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd. 49

Swift's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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Swift Navigation, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	2.8%
2019	1	2.8%
2020	4	11.1%
2021	3	8.3%
2022	5	13.9%
2023	9	25.0%
2024	11	30.6%
2025partial year	2	5.6%

Which technologies does Swift Navigation, Inc. 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 36

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

Top 2 of 2 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

Swift Navigation, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Swift Navigation, Inc.'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), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #8,931 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Swift Navigation, Inc. against Siemens Mobility Austria GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.5/100 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.

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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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